Portrayal Issues

I participated in a writing workshop recently, and one of the handouts we received was about appropriate language in written/spoken portrayal of individuals with disabilities. I skimmed through the “terminology” section right away, just to see…and, sure enough, spinal cord injury is listed as follows: Spinal cord injury describes a condition in which there has [...]

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Surrender, Spirituality, and Resilience

First thing, a consideration of the concepts of “illness” and “disability” would be useful: Illness: The way a sick person and family members experience and cope with symptoms and disability. Disease:  The biomedical understanding of a patient’s condition in medical terms. Acquired disability, an unexpected and undesired agent of change, forces renegotiations of relationships with [...]

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Dialogue and Meaning-Making in the Healing Process

Why have I created a blog in which to foster discussions of spinal cord injury?  Partly because of the dearth of websites I came across in my cursory investigations on the Web related to coping with these injuries.  I joined the “Spinal Cord Injury and Families” Yahoo Group, partially because of the name of the [...]

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