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Kaatje survived a nighttime skydiving accident, breaking her sacrum at 70mph. She jokes she's a 'broke-ass' comic. After a year in a spinal cord injury hospital, Kaatje became a limping Paramedic in Detroit, to pay back her social debt by saving lives. She also worked as a physician assistant and obtained her first bachelor's at New Mexico Tech. Kaatje lives with the consequences of her near fatal skydive every day, she has an incomplete spinal cord injury, in 2015 she was diagnosed with adhesive arachnoiditis and intractable pain. She's alive thanks to 34 hospitalizations and subanesthetic ketamine infusions. Kaatje is a staunch disability advocate, she is on a mission to help others with intractable pain. She wrote a medical memoir, "The Queen of Rx Ketamine" and while hospitalized, wrote "The Ketamine Clinic" screenplay, which will help millions. As a young cover model, stunt woman and global traveler, Kaatje stimulated her already excellent visuospatial memory. Her screenplay is unique, birthed from an exceptional imagination. Kaatje's love for the Southwest landscape and respect for its' peoples shines through every page. She's in love with a Navajo oil painter, her screenplay is strangely autobiographical and yet is authentic, with magical realism. It's an unbelievable story of survival. And finally finding happiness! Centuries after "The Ketamine Clinic," patients and providers will know of the revolution, and paradigm shift started by a sweet, smart, severely disabled Dutch woman in Albuquerque. Millions will finally get the help they need. Love and peace will reign on the Planet, while suffering is alleviated.