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BIID Anniversary
Written by Chloe on Tuesday, March 31, 2009
I’ve been reading the posts on transabled.org from a year ago. I read through last year’s posts until the end of March 2008 and found that they were unfamiliar. That means I had yet to discover transabled.org by the end of March last year. It occurred to me to look at last year’s diary to see exactly what I was doing a year ago. It’s not a diary written after the fact, just what I’m planning to do that day. Not much detail, but enough to reconstruct what was going on. It turned out that March 31st 2008 was the day my BIID went supernova.
Things were already cooking in February; I had started exchanging e-mails with Michael First by then, and I had also told my partner about this.
They say that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. It was a bit the other way round in 2008:
- March 10th: Physician told me that I had come close to complete paraplegia from my skiing accident the previous season, and that I should never ski again lest I finish the job. Very exciting news!
- March 18th: GP told me that it would not be surprising if I gradually lost all innervation to the left quadriceps, even without a reinjury. More exciting news!
- March 28th: Taped up my left leg with elastic adhesive bandages to try to manage my BIID.
- March 29th & 30th: Wore KAFOs at home all weekend.
- March 31st: KABOOM… Reinjured my back while skiing. It was somewhat deliberate. Very painful. BUT… It gave me a huge sense of exhilaration that I COULD make this happen. BIID exploded with an intensity I had not known since childhood. It’s not showing any signs of diminishing.
- April 10th: Despite the pain, went skiing again, determined to finish the job. Couldn’t handle the pain without a back brace though. Had my most spectacular high speed aerial crash since 2002. Only got a big bruise to my right hip.
Yeah, I know there’s not much new here. It hadn’t crossed my mind that I could retrieve exact dates when I wrote about these things before.
Now, a year later, it all seems quite a long time ago. Makes me wonder how things wil be a year from now.
Tags: Accident, Back Brace, Bandages, BIID, KAFOs, Paraplegia
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A year later, and I am again amazed at how much things change. In the four months following this post I obtained a disability parking permit, visited an orthotist for the first time, started wearing my left KAFO to work full time, completely wrecked my car, and started wheeling to work full time.
Yesterday I was at the state capitol building, as a representative of the intersex community, speaking in front of a large group of people, for the first time from a wheelchair.
Next year who knows?
3 On 1 April, 2010, Phil said:
Chloe, you are great!
I just am a bit in fear because you do so dangerous things (skiing) and seem to hurt yourself sometimes.
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1 On 31 March, 2009, Sean said:
For some reasons the comments were closed on this. Open for commenting again :)