by Alicia Reagan | Feb 20, 2021 | Family Life
It has been a difficult couple of years and this blog has taken the hit of it. I am ready to get back here and up my game again. I have continued to write, but it has just been private. For me. Maybe one day, I will share more, but for now, that is how it just had to...
by Alicia Reagan | Feb 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
My morning begins with trying to roll over first. Then some stretches of my upper body, my fingers and my hands. After I am loose enough to be able to sit up, I do my leg stretches the best I can. Next on the agenda? If it is a bowel program (another subject) and...
by Alicia Reagan | Jan 31, 2021 | Uncategorized
Sometimes I wonder why I post videos and write blogs. I know it is therapeutic for me to just write and talk things out…on paper or video. I know it is because I just want to help others. I have learned so much about how to live my life in a wheelchair from...
by Alicia Reagan | Jan 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
I have a little ritual I seem to go through every night to get my body ready to sleep. If it is a good night, I am able to fall asleep very quickly. If it is a bad night, I tend to doze off quickly but then wake up within the hour with nerve pain and stay awake a lot....
by Alicia Reagan | Jan 14, 2021 | Disability and Relationships
My wheelchairs are like shoes. Depending on what I am doing, that determines which wheelchair I will use. Do I use my manual chair which is lightweight, but takes a huge amount of energy and effort for me if the ground is not perfectly level at all times, or do I use...
by Alicia Reagan | Dec 31, 2020 | Uncategorized
I share much about my life because I want to be real and open. I don’t share everything because at times it involves more than just me and discretion is necessary. This doesn’t make you unreal. It makes you real mannerly and respectful to other...
by Alicia Reagan | Dec 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
It isn’t because I can’t “do” a lot of chores. I can. There are a lot I cannot do, because I can’t reach them. But, there are still many I can do. So it isn’t that I am not “able” to do them. The question is…at what cost? What won’t happen, or what now will...
by Alicia Reagan | Dec 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
I am going to merge my YouTube channel and this blog and “marry” them a little! When I make a new YouTube, I am going to throw it over here as a Vlog (video blog). I think it will be helpful to mingle them together. The more others can be helped in their disability...
by Alicia Reagan | Dec 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
The other day, one of the kids mentioned me being paralyzed from my belly button down. I said, “What?!!! What are you talking about? I have never been paralyzed from belly button down! I can’t feel anything from my chest down and spotty feelings in my arms/hands!...
by Alicia Reagan | Sep 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
May I take you on a journey? Will you just give me a couple minutes of your time and follow me to the place a decision was made that has never once stopped affecting the course of time. Come with me. I challenge you this journey is only for the true and brave. This...