Josie Aslakson is a 25 year old paralympic wheelchair basketball player for Team USA.
Josie was born in Edina, a small city in the state of Minnesota. While born able-bodied, she sustained a complete spinal cord injury in a car accident at the age of 5. Despite receiving excellent hospital care, this meant she would be completely paralyzed from the waist down for the rest of her life and that she would never have any feeling in her legs again.
Fortunately, the accident didn’t cause any other medical issues and Josie grew up in excellent health. Obviously, growing up as a wheelchair user comes with some challenges from time to time, but while however she sometimes felt sorry that she couldn’t participate in everything her friends and classmates did, Josie always stood out with her extremely positive attitude!
At the age of 13, Josie was practicing at one of her archery lessons, and the basketball coach(who was training at the same time) pushed her to try basketball. The coach immediately spotted that Josie had quite some talent and encouraged her to give it a go.
In the beginning Josie played together with the ‘regular’ basketball team of Jordan High School, which she attended and contrary to what you might expect, she matched the level of her teammates very well and even turned out as one of the top players of the team!
After high school, Josie switched to the womens wheelchair basketball team of the the University of Texas at Arlington, the Lady Movin’ Mavs. This is where her talent fully blossomed and in 2014, she was selected for the World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Incheon, South Korea where she and her teammates finished second(after Australia). In 2018, she then played for Team USA in the World Championships in Hamburg, Germany, where she finished 6’th.
Now, Josie is preparing for her first ever Paralympic Games, which will start in a couple of weeks in Tokyo, Japan! Good luck Josie
If you’re interested, you can check out Josie’s Instagram page. I can also really recommend the great interview Josie recently had with Palms to Pines Parasports⬇️
when the arrogant boss got hit by a car after his secretary tried to get back at him for treating her badly for a year and she learned that she’s going to die so she went to his house to scare him a little he chased after her outside his house then got hit by a car intentionally not by her but by some one else,, the honest assistant returned for him to find him laying on the ground unconscious and bleeding heavily ,, she rushed him to the hospital and gave her consent for the surgery … cried for his safety and stayed by his bedside looking messy from all the crying ,,, she was concerned for his life ,, then he had a seizure after the surgery and was treated by the doctor
Arizona Cardinals Cornerback Jeff Gladney Has Died in a Car Accident at Age 25
Arizona Cardinals Cornerback Jeff Gladney Has Died in a Car Accident at Age 25
Arizona Cardinals cornerback Jeff Gladney, a former first-round pick of the Minnesota Vikings, died Monday at the age of 25 — confirmed by his agent, Brian Overstreet, to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram — following a car accident in Dallas. The Cardinals released the following statement about Gladney’s death: “We are devastated to learn of Jeff Gladney’s passing. Our hearts go out to his family,…
I’m seriously sitting in my car listening to sad music. These past few weeks have been a roller coaster for my emotional set. For one my childhood best friend passed away in a car accident recently. Her passing broke my heart, I still can’t fully wrap my head around it. It still doesn’t seem real to me at all. Then to follow up with that my mom tried to lie to me and tell me that she passed away from COVID. My mom is extremely manipulative and the fact that she EVEN TRIED to lie on my friends death pissed me off! I took everything in me not to hit my mom. And then to put the icing on the cake my boyfriend… my fucking boyfriend is a dickhead. I don’t know if being with him or falling for him was the best thing for me. I slowly feel myself pulling away from him. Plus I don’t think he’s over his ex. I knew we rushed this. We should’ve just stayed friends. Having a boyfriend is complicating my life. Also I’m moving soon, I don’t think he’ll be willing to come with me so I think I’ll break it off. Hopefully on a good note because I do love him, very much but I just need alone time. I need to focus on myself and when I’m with him he takes all my energy. I give him my everything and I feel like that should be mainly focused on me and what I’m trying to do in life! But at the same time I want to be with him, he brings me so much happiness and joy. I love him so much. I don’t know what to do…
I’ve never seen this man do surgery does he do it when I’m asleep DOES HE DO SURGERY ON ME WHILE I SLEEP
N…NO! I graduated in medicine, finished neurosurgery residency, worked as a NORMAL neurosurgeon…-I was the best by the way- then I….suffered a car crash and became a sorcerer. I don’t….do surgery anymore. Why are you looking at me like that?
Wait- a car crash gave you your sorcerer powers??? HOw does that even-
No. I went to Kamar Taj to try to heal my hands…then I learned magic. The car crash gave me chronic neurogenic pain and scars.
This is what happens when you hydroplane into the back of another car while going 55-60 mph.
I was driving to work in the morning, and it had been raining. I came around a curve. Traffic had stopped way sooner than I expected, and I slammed my brakes. They locked, I hydroplaned, screech, wham, fwump, shit shit shit.
Would you believe me if I told you I came out of this completely unscathed? Because I did.
I didn’t even suffer whiplash. I had no broken bones. I had soft tissue and muscle injury to my chest, which made me sore as hell for a month afterward, but that didn’t even result in visible bruising. Immediately after impact, I undid my seatbelt, shoved open the door as wide as I could, and walked away.
My aunt who works for General Motors looked at the pictures and said that, from what she could tell, it looked like every factor that could have been in play for me to survive, was in play. I was wearing my seatbelt. I hit front-on and deployed my only airbags. The car obviously absorbed, like, all of the force of impact. But she said that even with all those factors in play, my survival wasn’t a given; I still could have died that day.
I dunno, thank God and the fine engineers at Toyota, I guess. I’m fond of saying that that little Corolla gave her life for mine that day, because if it wasn’t apparent from the pictures, I totaledher.
It did leave me with a small mental scar, you could say. I’ve discovered now that when I’m driving and have to suddenly brake, the sight of the back end of the car ahead of me coming closer makes me experience, even briefly, the same intensity of panic and terror that I felt the day of the crash. So that’s fun. It’s happened just enough times that I think I can pinpoint exactly how it happens.
I know this is really glossing over, but tbh it feels kinda weird to talk about it in depth still. So there you go.
Here’s what I drive now:
And while the Corolla was in my parents’ names, this sweet little Nissan Versa is mine, mine, mine. Under my name, covered by my insurance.
