{"id":13031,"date":"2017-09-12T08:45:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T13:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/?p=13031"},"modified":"2017-09-13T08:49:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T13:49:18","slug":"18-years-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/2017\/18-years-and-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"18 years and counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was 18 years (and almost 8 months) old when I was paralyzed.<\/p>\n<p>Today will mark the 18th anniversary.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s crazy to think that I have lived almost as long sitting down as I I did walking.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent most more than 16 of those 18 years with Charlie, and we have a built an incredible, beautiful life with our three healthy boys. I&#8217;m truly the happiest I&#8217;ve ever been and I couldn&#8217;t ask for more.&nbsp;<br \/>\nYes, sometimes it sucks to have to sit all the time, not to mention all the other stuff you don&#8217;t need to know about that comes in #Paralysis , but I&#8217;m alive and We are all healthy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Life hasn&#8217;t always been easy but that&#8217;s the case for every single person I know, able-bodied or not.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways here&#8217;s a picture my friend Sarah took just a few days before everything changed.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_4187.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_4187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13030\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_4187.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_4187-100x100.jpg 100w, http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_4187-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/img_4187-320x320.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was 18 years (and almost 8 months) old when I was paralyzed. Today will mark the 18th anniversary. It&#8217;s crazy to think that I have lived almost as long sitting down as I I did walking. I&#8217;ve spent most more than 16 of those 18 years with Charlie, and we have a built an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,371,147],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-family","7":"category-life-updates","8":"category-wheelchair-stuff","9":"entry","10":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5zEve-3ob","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13032,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13031\/revisions\/13032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}