People with disabilities battling more than just COVID-19 during the pandemic
KAMLOOPS — The world we live in has, for the most part, been built by non-disabled people, for non-disabled people. People with disabilities often must work harder to do many of the tasks non-disabled people take for granted. Now imagine those extra challenges compounded by the isolation and fear COVID-19 has created.
Trish Rhode developed paraplegia after an incident of domestic violence that left her with a spinal cord injury.
“My common-law guy threw me off a balcony,” Rhode recounts.