SURVIVING CANCER

 RESOURCES FROM WHEELCHAIR USERS WHO ARE                    CURRENTLY BATTLING OR HAVE BEATEN CANCER

Karp, 67, advises those with SCI/D to plan on feeling foggy-headed even when out of a cancer center and recovering at home. 

He was not advised of the severity of pain he would feel or the impact of pain medications. 

For the first time in his life, he felt some insecurity about his ability to function at home.

“On the positive side, the nature of the disability experience is we are adaptive beings,” he says. 

“We learn to advocate for ourselves. 

That couldn’t be more important for someone going through cancer treatment. 

There are so many choices to make, so many individual paths, and so many products and strategies that each person has to keep learning.”