{"id":7990,"date":"2016-10-15T16:04:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T23:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=7990"},"modified":"2016-10-15T16:20:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T23:20:04","slug":"31-days-of-parenting-kiddos-with-special-needs-blogger-spotlight-on-rebecca-of-backwards-in-high-heels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=7990","title":{"rendered":"31 Days of Parenting Kiddos with Special Needs: Blogger Spotlight on Rebecca of &#8220;Backwards in High Heels&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/specialkids.jpg\" alt=\"31 Days of Parenting Kiddos with Special Needs\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in the midst of trying to get work for Chapter 6 in my Excel book done early (it&#8217;s due on Wednesday by 11:55 p.m. but I try to get stuff done at least 24 hours before the due date in that class in case there&#8217;s a problem and I have to do a lot of work at school), doing a couple extra problems for my Accounting class in prep for the test on Monday, and doing a boatload of laundry in case we lose power tonight when the really scary storm hits.  (I only own three pairs of jeans and they&#8217;re all being washed.  I need to hit up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fredmeyer.com\">Fred Meyer<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/kohls.com\">Kohl&#8217;s<\/a> for more  so I can give them to my mom to hem.) Because I have a deadline on how long I can probably work tonight, you&#8217;re getting another blogger spotlight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why I\u2019m spotlighting this blogger:<\/strong>  When I approached Rebecca and told her that I wanted to feature her and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicconspiracy.com\/rebeccafrech\/\">her blog<\/a> for this, I wanted to be really careful because while her daughter Ella is in a wheelchair after losing the use of her legs at age 9, she&#8217;s not exactly what people would consider &#8220;special needs&#8221;  (she prefers &#8220;adaptive&#8221;)&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Paralyzed, No Handicap\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/luUKqeU32IU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>(By the way, they finally have a somewhat firm diagnosis for her!!!  Details are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicconspiracy.com\/rebeccafrech\/2016\/09\/24\/the-road-to-a-diagnosis-part-1\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicconspiracy.com\/rebeccafrech\/2016\/09\/25\/a-diagnosis-at-last-part-2\/\">here<\/a>.)  <\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s currently the number two ranked professional female wheelchair skater (WCMX) in the world, I&#8217;ve seen videos of her doing rung pull-ups at her mom&#8217;s CrossFit gym (something that I lack the arm strength to even think about doing), and <a href=\"http:\/\/aleteia.org\/2016\/06\/02\/me-before-you-dear-hollywood-why-do-you-want-me-dead\/\">she&#8217;s perfectly capable of speaking up  for herself on MANY subjects<\/a>.  In other words, she&#8217;s kicking butt and taking names so she&#8217;d tell you not to pity her.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>What I want to feature, I guess, is what her mom Rebecca did to get Ella the wheelchair she needed.  After getting denied multiple times by insurance companies (because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernsun.com\/Death-Panels-Bumper-Sticker-%287208%29.html\">insurance companies are that way<\/a>), Rebecca took to Twitter with the hashtag <strong>#ellaneedswheels<\/strong>.  Chevrolet mistakenly retweeted it&#8230; and that was a fabulous thing because the hashtag went viral which got the attention of the escalation department of her insurance company.  Long story short, the insurance company caved after 3 Fox News Anchors and Michelle Malkin retweeted the story.  \ud83d\ude42  (An article by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/author\/sarah-watts\/\">my friend Sarah<\/a> about the whole thing is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/health\/archive\/2016\/05\/one-parents-twitter-campaign-to-get-her-daughter-a-wheelchair\/484337\/\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah&#8230; there was also <a href=\"https:\/\/fundrazr.com\/campaigns\/1xMb1\/ab\/a4aL07\">the online swear jar<\/a> thing.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-mNSc-zBv5M\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-mNSc-zBv5M<\/a><\/div>\n<p>So please, go check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicconspiracy.com\/rebeccafrech\/\">Rebecca&#8217;s blog<\/a> while I fold laundry before the world outside fills with flying houses, witches on brooms, and flying monkeys.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/wickedcup-e1476572633480.jpg\" alt=\"My cup of cranberry juice.\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the midst of trying to get work for Chapter 6 in my Excel book done early (it&#8217;s due on Wednesday by 11:55 p.m. but I try to get stuff done at least 24 hours before the due date &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=7990\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,2,70,10,67,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-faith","category-parenting-kids-with-special-needs","category-web-schtuff","category-write-31-days","category-write-31-days-2016"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-24S","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7990"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7996,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7990\/revisions\/7996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}