blizzard

Deal with Snow Like a Champ

by on January 11, 2011

When it snows and the blizzards do their thing, I don’t know about you, but I freak out. As a wheelchair-user, I know getting through snow is one of the hardest things to pull off. Our four wheels just weren’t made to get through snow. So until a presto chango wheelchair that turns into skis is [..}


Survive a Minnesota winter from your wheelchair (and live to tell about it)

by on January 11, 2010

I’m the quadriplegic version of Laura Ingalls. I’ve experienced more than 1,350 “classic Upper Midwest” winter days as a wheelchair-user, and experience-wise, it’s everything you might imagine it is. There‘s bitterly cold temperatures and legs that seemingly never warm up if you dare [..}