Dianne Vitkus and I met five and a half years ago in Spaulding Hospital while she was in inpatient rehab after her spinal cord injury and I was there for a PT appointment. Over the years we've become friends through our mutual enthusiasm for adaptive sports, the organizations that we are both involved with, as well as being members of the Boston spinal cord injury community. She is currently the resource program manager at the Travis Roy Center in Spaulding Hospital, where she helps newly injured patients find the resources that will prepare them for returning home. She leads the SCI consortium, a group of several New England-based spinal cord injuries coming together to tackle larger issues.
I visited Dianne in her apartment in the Charlestown Navy Yard, across the water from where I live in East Boston. After catching up, we began exploring grief, an emotional state that I have come to understand advances and recedes often unpredictably and not in a linear way, like we are often led to believe. Dianne and I both have experienced a resurgence of grief in the past year or so. We also have many wonderful things in our lives. This conversation exemplifies the ability for grief, sadness, and loss to coexist with joy, connection, and love in a person's life.
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