Road to Miss Wheelchair World
If I want to apply to Miss Wheelchair World 2022? Last year September I've received a message from a former contestant with this...
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Disabled At Work
It’s a general assumption: “People with disabilities don’t work”. I would like to react on that. By working I mean to earn income to...
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Diversity and more
Calling for diversity and link it to justice and equality is a good thing. But there is more to it. Diversity, inclusion and equity are...
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Spinal cord injury; what to eat?
Eating healthy as a wheelchair user is important! What to eat when you are a wheelchair user? It’s very easy to gain weight when you are...
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Side Effect
When I became paralyzed I continued to post pictures of myself on Instagram. I did not feel shame about moving around in a wheelchair. It...
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Let's talk about sex
Can you have sex? Can you have kids? these are very common questions abled people ask me, being a wheelchair user, a paraplegic. The...
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Disability struggles [during the corona pandemic]
Most of the time I don’t let spinal cord injury related problems get to me. Some problems don't seem big but the butterfly effect is...
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Thinking forward [hope for a spinal cord injury cure]
The future is not only tomorrow but also 5, 10 and 50 years from now. Maybe wheelchairs will become more advanced or a cure for spinal...
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Corona Crisis: Learn from the disabled
Living with a spinal cord injury also means you are more vulnerable in the current situation with the corona crisis. The respirational...
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Inclusion Excluded
Every person is unique. And that's your greatest strength. I never fitted in, so I know what being labelled as 'different' feels like. I...
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Real Love
I remember after a month, still laying in the hospital bed I told my father I thought I would be forever alone. He said 'If I would meet...
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Yes you can!
So maybe you have a relative, a friend, a collegue or a neighbour that goes through life using a wheelchair. Or maybe you once broke your...
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Roll On
A few days ago I woke up and while trying to get out of bed, during the transfer from my bed to my wheelchair I noticed one of the tires...
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This Year
Stop smoking? Start exercising? Eat healthy? More work/life balance? Make more money? I don't do New Year's resolutions. My only goal...
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THREE
My mom texted me this morning and until that moment I didn't realize today is the date, three years ago that changed my life completely....
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What living with a Spinal Cord Injury
Not knowing what a SCI truly meant, I've found out the hard way. Before I got injured I've never had any health problems. The life...
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Topsport
Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) has devastating consequences for the physical, social and vocational well-being of the injured person....
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The airplane experience
A year ago I travelled for the first time by airplane since being in a wheelchair. The first time it was a short flight of 2 hours and I...
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Domino Effect
We all have good and bad days or weeks. My days are filled with dealing with "accessible". Yesterday and the day before that I couldn't...
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Reflection; Millennial Failures
A lot of people in their twenties act like being 29 is the last year of their lives. Well I personally think there is no need to be so...
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