What Counts As Independence After SCI (part 3)

Send us Fan Mail Most people think a spinal cord injury has one clear story line. Wendy blows that up in the best way. She’s an L1 paraplegic who’s lived with spinal cord injury for 35 years, and she joins us to talk through what “paraplegic” and “quadriplegic” actually mean, how injury level shapes function, and why two people with SCI can look completely different day to day. We also get honest about mental health, because coping after a sudden traumatic injury isn’t a motivational poster, ...