TACKLES TOUGH QUESTIONS
Shannon Cobb participates in wheelchair lacrosse, searches for more adaptive sports in her location an hour-plus away from Chicago and is interested in extreme wheelchair sports.
Fertig wrote
a letter of recommendation to help Cobb with a grant to fund a wheelchair that
stands up to the abuse of WCMX.
The center
also has helped the budding social worker with peer advice on how to stretch
the paltry disability payment that she receives each month.
Lindsey
Elliott, a social worker who serves as United Spinal’s director of member
initiatives and as an information specialist, invited Shannon Cobb to one of
the Resource Center’s new Zoom-based nationwide peer sessions.
“Her
participation led to resources and information from her peers who were on the
call — United Spinal members from all over the country.
She was on
the call with notebook in hand, furiously taking notes on all the resources,”
says Elliott.
“We started
these calls to address the isolation born of COVID. They are a time to kick
back and chit chat about all kinds of things.
Lots of
questions are asked and information is shared.”
“I have learned to be very resilient. I cannot imagine how my journey would
have been without the team of people at the Resource Center,” says Cobb.
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