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    The Truth About Winter as a Wheelchair User

    I was born and raised in northern Wisconsin. If there is one thing that remains a constant, it’s how inaccessible the winter is. It’s miserable. If you don’t know anything about Wisconsin winter, it lasts about six months. If we’re unlucky, it snows for the first time at the end of September and the last snow has happened in the middle of May in my own memory. Currently, as I’m writing this, it is a whole 11 degrees outside. Two weeks ago, it was the coldest day of the year where the high temperature reached -9 degrees (F). I am always cold due to poor circulation and I have Reynaud’s…