Dating quadriplegic

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Kiel has a spinal cord injury SCI due to a football injury, which left him as an incomplete C5 quadriplegic. Due to the injury, Kiel uses a power chair and has limited dexterity of his hands. Kiel and I met during college, and have been together coming up on 5 years in January. When we first met, I was playing so many questions in my mind over and over. I can still picture myself climbing into the passenger side of his van, and us making small talk as we drove to the restaurant. I was anxious and nervous. I was trying not to obviously stare at his hand controls or trying to figure out how he was pressing on the gas.

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Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission. A young British couple is getting attention on social media for sharing intimate details of their relationship in hope of dispelling rumors around disability and sex. I was the only one with severe injuries. The year-old said that after the accident, he gave up on dating because he was worried about how people would react to him, as well as the rejection from other women.

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Written by Bailey Martens. One sixty-eight. My heart was racing when the paramedics took me to the emergency room early December. One by one, triage nurses and doctors came to take my pulse, a small but firm woman began tugging at my clothes and I explained my medical history to the attending. Before long I was sitting there in my underwear calmly telling my life story in front of five men. She slipped me into a gown.

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Dating with a disability is hard. But disabled UBC students embrace their bodies.

Dating with a disability can be intimidating. Where do you start? How do you meet people?

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