{"quotes":[{"text":"The video was still playing, although I didn't know why. It seemed as if the able-bodied dancers were mocking me.","author":"Sarah Todd Hammer","tags":["chronic-illness","chronic-pain","dance","disability","fatigue","inspirational","invisible-illness","motivational","myelitis","neuropathy","paralysis","rare-disease","run","sci","spinal-cord-injury","tm","transverse-myelitis"],"id":65805,"author_id":"Sarah+Todd+Hammer"},{"text":"Dancing with a spinal cord injury is a challenge like no other, but I aspired to prove to myself that I could still be phenomenal dancer even with an SCI.","author":"Sarah Todd Hammer","tags":["chronic-illness","chronic-pain","dance","disability","fatigue","inspirational","invisible-illness","motivational","myelitis","neuropathy","paralysis","rare-disease","run","sci","spinal-cord-injury","tm","transverse-myelitis"],"id":149639,"author_id":"Sarah+Todd+Hammer"},{"text":"I had learned quickly that life doesn't always go the way I want it to, and that's okay. I still plod on.","author":"Sarah Todd Hammer","tags":["chronic-illness","chronic-pain","dance","disability","fatigue","inspirational","invisible-illness","motivational","myelitis","neuropathy","paralysis","rare-disease","run","sci","spinal-cord-injury","tm","transverse-myelitis"],"id":150097,"author_id":"Sarah+Todd+Hammer"},{"text":"People who don't see you every day have a hard time understanding how on some days--good days--you can run three miles, but can barely walk across the parking lot on other days,' [my mom] said quietly.","author":"Jennifer Starzec","tags":["chronic-illness","chronic-pain","dance","disability","fatigue","inspirational","invisible-illness","motivational","myelitis","neuropathy","paralysis","run","tm","transverse-myelitis"],"id":249474,"author_id":"Jennifer+Starzec"},{"text":"The thought of being able to [move my arms] made me want to give up my legs [instead] since I was accustomed to using them. But, I figured that after a few hours of sitting in a wheelchair...I would switch back...In a flash.","author":"Sarah Todd Hammer","tags":["chronic-illness","disability","inspirational","motivational","myelitis","paralysis","paralyzed","tm","transverse-myelitis"],"id":261592,"author_id":"Sarah+Todd+Hammer"},{"text":"I often wished that more people understood the invisible side of things. Even the people who seemed to understand, didn't really.","author":"Jennifer Starzec","tags":["chronic-illness","chronic-pain","dance","disability","fatigue","inspirational","invisible-illness","motivational","myelitis","neuropathy","paralysis","rare-disease","run","sci","spinal-cord-injury","tm","transverse-myelitis"],"id":427932,"author_id":"Jennifer+Starzec"},{"text":"The weekend was a much-needed breath of fresh air; Monday always seemed to not only take that breath right back, but add a few extra pounds to my shoulders as well.","author":"Jennifer Starzec","tags":["chronic-illness","chronic-pain","dance","disability","fatigue","inspirational","invisible-illness","motivational","myelitis","neuropathy","paralysis","rare-disease","run","sci","spinal-cord-injury","tm","transverse-myelitis"],"id":446116,"author_id":"Jennifer+Starzec"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}