{"id":10578,"date":"2021-05-04T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shayneletford.com\/test-triumph\/uncategorized\/edieperkins\/"},"modified":"2024-04-21T20:38:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T03:38:55","slug":"edieperkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumph-foundation.org\/es\/news\/edieperkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Edie Perkins – Cheers Peer Support"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Take a look at this great article featuring our beautiful Triumph Ambassador\u00a0Edie Perkins over on Cure Nation's blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Edie Perkins \u2013 Cheers Peer Support<\/h2>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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\"\"What do you do four years after you\u2019ve been hit by a car and paralyzed from the chest down? For most of us, \u2018Move to Vermont and assume the leadership of a prestigious non-profit\u2019 doesn\u2019t top our list. Then again, most of us don\u2019t spent our lives competing in (and winning!) marathons and cycling competitions.<\/p>\n

After a traumatic accident, Edie ended up with seven broken vertebrae in her neck and spine. She also broke 11 of her 12 ribs and was rushed to a hospital where she stayed for 10 days before being transferred to another facility, where they knew nearly nothing about spinal cord injury.<\/p>\n

Luckily, Edie eventually ended up at a wonderful rehab hospital, Casa Colina.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Part of the rehab at Casa Colina consists of attending a support group run by your peers \u2013 in this case, run by the Triumph Foundation. The groups \u201caddress both practical and emotional needs of people living with SCI\u201d and offer \u201ccandid advice and guidance from others who have faced similar circumstances\u201d, according to the Triumph website. In the group, Edie saw people who had been living with paralysis for decades, coming to the group to share information with the newbies \u2013 some of whom attend the meeting still in their hospital gowns. Edie, with her background in education and team sports, joined Triumph as a peer-counseling Ambassador.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was lucky.\u201d Edie recalls about this time in her life. \u201cI knew right away that I wanted to compete, and I knew there was a way to do that. There were always disabled athletes in the marathons I had run, so I knew there was a place for me. I wanted to share that with others.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Read the rest of the article by visiting Cure Nation<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Take a look at this great article featuring our beautiful Triumph Ambassador\u00a0Edie Perkins over on Cure Nation's blog. Edie Perkins \u2013 Cheers Peer Support What do you do four years after you\u2019ve been hit by a car and paralyzed from the chest down? For most of us, \u2018Move to Vermont and assume the leadership of [...]","protected":false},"author":888,"featured_media":10581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-noteworthy","category-sci"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumph-foundation.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumph-foundation.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumph-foundation.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumph-foundation.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumph-foundation.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumph-foundation.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10580,"href":"https:\/\/triumph-foundation.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10578\/revisions\/10580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumph-foundation.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumph-foundation.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumph-foundation.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumph-foundation.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}