Meet Our Members
“When people say to me, ‘I don’t have an aide or I can’t get the equipment or medication I need,’ I tell them: There’s a place you can go. At ICS, they’ll help you get the things you need, but they’ll also help you to be more independent.”
“My wheelchair is very important. If it isn’t working properly, I can’t go anywhere. Can you imagine twenty-four hours at home every day? You can’t move. It’s my feet; it’s my legs. If I don’t have it, I’m in prison.”
“Before ICS, I wasn’t doing anything about my multiple sclerosis. I used to go to the hospital with flare-ups constantly. ICS showed me that if I got the treatment I needed, how much more I could do. ICS changed my whole life. “
“A lot of the guys with a SCI want to know, can I have a relationship—read, sex? I tell them you can. It’s going to be different, but everybody has sexual relationships differently.”
“Joining ICS was the best thing I could have done. If there were no ICS, my life would change because it’s as if I live here! The people at ICS are like family.”
“Without ICS, I wouldn’t have this new hearing aid or the speech therapy that’s helping people to understand me. And I wouldn’t have Marilyn, my fiancé, an ICS member, too. We used to take the same ambulette.”
