The wheels; a spinal cord injury (SCI) (Part 1)
Welcome back! I know it's been a while ago since I posted something, but here I am ;). The Spinal Cord Injury; what's it like? Feeling The spinal cord injury causes me to be wheelchair-bounded, yes, but it comes with much more than just the wheelchair (!). In my post about 'the accident' I said I couldn't feel anything because of the spinal cord injury. In the period of recovery, some of the feeling came back. Not everywhere though; there are certain areas in which I can't feel anything. The feeling that did came back is not the same as how it used to be; I still hardly feel anything from the waist down, but what I do feel, feels very 'dull'. Like if you are touching it through a very thick layer of skin. Besides this, weird, 'new' feeling, I also can't feel any temperature. People often ask me questions like: 'what do you feel if you don't feel any temperature?'. Well, this question is kind of hard to answer. I described it ...