Check Out My First Published Article On Medium!

“How I Managed To Shorten My Lifespan By Pursuing My Goals”

Traveling While Disabled (TWD)

My experiences traveling while disabled (TWD)

Interabled Couples and Families

By: Katherine Itacy, Esq. Dated: July 8, 2018 As I read journalist Ben Mattlin’s fantastic new book, In Sickness and in Health: Love, Disability, and a Quest to Understand the Perils and Pleasures of Interabled Romance, this past week, it made me think about my own interabled marriage. Mattlin describes an “interabled couple” as one […]

Could We Teach Empathy Through VR?

What if a VR game existed that could teach the user empathy towards others?

Listen to my latest podcast episode, “Being Your Own Health Care Advocate”

Hey there, friends! I hope you’ll take a listen to the latest podcast episode from “Hammer Time with Nikki and Kate: A Disabled Lawyer and a Personal Trainer Walk into a Podcast.” In it, I talk a lot about the power and influence medical professionals have over our lives; the importance of putting advanced care […]

Life Unfinished

My fears about my upcoming neurosurgery

When You Force a Workhorse to Retire, She’s Bound to Get a Bit Jittery in the Stable!

By: Katherine Itacy, Esq. Dated: January 24, 2018 Both of my parents have demonstrated an obscene work ethic my entire life. And sure, they came right out and told me and my brother to work hard in school and for the things we wanted, but I think that I learned subconsciously to mimic their true […]

The Mindfuck that Comes with Adjusting to a Debilitating Disability

By: Katherine Itacy, Esq. Dated: December 12, 2017 I grew up thinking that I had fatefully (and narrowly) escaped paralysis. As my mother has relayed to me time and time again, in early 1988, she noticed that I was complaining of lower back pain. Since I had been born with Spina Bifida and a lipoma […]

Chronic Pain – Suffering in (Quasi-) Silence

By: Katherine Itacy, Esq. Dated: November 13, 2017 Living with Type-I (juvenile) diabetes can be really frustrating and painful, but until I started experiencing symptoms of arachnoiditis in December of 2015, I didn’t quite know just how frustrating and painful it could be to live in my body. Arachnoiditis, as I would come to quickly […]

Where, Oh Where, Has Patient-Focused Healthcare Gone?

As a semi-professional patient, I’ve seen some of the best, as well as some of the WORST health care professionals in the business! What’s been your experience with the healthcare system in the U.S.?