Hey, this is cool, a local woman with a spinal cord injury gets a nice feature on boingboing. And she loves her dogs - since I love my cats, I totally get the pet-love thing. And she's apparently a bit of a transhumanist too - freeekin cool!

If you know anything about edgey netculture, you know boingboing - I read it daily. Here's the interview:

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/09/an-interview-with-sa.html

And here is Sarah Scott's blo: http://maydayprdx.blogspot.com/

SB: Tell me your story.

SS: The story that everyone wants to know from the start is why I use a wheelchair. I was 29, one minute racing my road bike, and the next "tits up in a ditch" and a paraplegic. That was nearly four years ago. Prior to that, I was your basic hot mess, but that's a longer story than there is room for here. I will say that PTSD has figured in for a longer time than I ever realized until I was injured. For once in my life, and this always sounds crazy, but after everything I've been through I actually like who I am for the first time in my life, chair and all.

I am a small-town girl from State College, PA, though I spent some time in NYC and Philadelphia before returning after my accident. These days I live in a very rural area with my crazy mutts.

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 SB: Why do you blog?

SS: I started blogging for a few reasons. I was desperately lonely and going through all these sort of insane experiences that no one could understand, and I was desperate to be able to explain them in such a way that people would be able to understand without reverting to all the chair stereotypes that I was just a bitter, mean, crazy person now. There were a lot of people in my life that didn't make the transition to be able to see me first and the chair second, and it was heartbreaking. I thought online I could control things in such a way that people would see me again. In the beginning, it was very much about control.