Last December, James Dooley Sullivan packed his wheelchair and travelled to Jamaica. Sullivan, an animator and visual arts video editor at the World Bank Group, wanted to see first-hand what it’s like to be disabled in a developing country.

He shares his experience and his own history in a video and a series of blog posts.

I shudder every time I think about the external force created when I hit the tree and how that force coursed through my snowboard and up my left leg, which shattered, and on up into my spine, which broke in two. It lasted only a second, but I will never stop thinking about that pressure.

Now, I have a new pressure to think about: Pressure Sore.

Imagine it. I’m back from Jamaica and eager to create a film that will document my adventures, my thoughts and the lives of the people I met there. Instead, I’m lying horizontal and thinking, a lot of time thinking, about pressure.