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By jennypooh · Posted September 14, 2008
Discussion in New paralysis/rehabilitation · 3 recommendations
Hi there. My boyfriend was in a car accident two weeks ago today. He fractured his spine between the 6th and 7th vertebrae. He has movement in his arms. For the first week he had no feeling in his chest ...

Never, Never Give Up!

By janders199 · Posted August 7, 2009
Discussion in Living your life · 2 recommendations
Good morning! I am a T-12 incomplete . . . I went to my doctor of physical medicne on Monday . . . 3 years after my spinal cord infarction at T-12 . . . and he was amazed . . . he said I was now an L-1 ...

We all have something in our lives to inspire us.

By Nina372 · Posted May 9, 2009
Journal · 2 recommendations
We all have something in our lives to inspire us and sometimes I think we all need to take the time to recognize them to bring back the hope we feel for our day to day lives and not forget that even when ...

Best video of the week!!!!

By Nina372 · Posted April 11, 2009
Journal · 2 recommendations
Please watch this video all the way through the end is the best part!! I promis it will be worth it ...

Take This Drink Plenty Of Fluids And Pray To JESUS

By mikey · Posted March 29, 2009
Discussion in Living your life · 2 recommendations
I am going to broach a topic that in everyday discourse exemplifies a complex irony. To hopefully keep your attention, I will state the irony later. I also want to say that it is not my intent to offend ...

God?

By Twisted · Posted March 25, 2009
Journal · 2 recommendations
Religion is a subject akin to walking barefoot on glass shards. I only bring it up because it's germane to human interaction and the situation in which I found myself, no offense is intended, only background ...

AMAZING!!

By Nina372 · Posted November 7, 2008
Journal · 2 recommendations
Scott Rigsby is an amazing person that did not let something that destroyed his body destroy his life. Scott has an amazing testimony that’s why I felt I should post this video so that you too would be ...

I hope my storie inspires you. please post your storie.

By Nina372 · Posted October 28, 2008
Journal · 2 recommendations
Four years ago I became extremely ill and paralyzed from the waist down. My left arm and hand were also immobile. At the time I was very worried about my future because the night I became ill I was doing ...

I Am Not My Wheelchair

By Reyality · Posted September 17, 2008
Journal · 2 recommendations
Permanent Link to "I Am Not My Wheelchair": http://www.reyality.com/keepitmoving/?p= 84 What would you see if you stare at a wheelchair? A physical prison nobody wants to live in It ain't fair that some ...

I bought my first tricycle!

By hangglide · Posted June 8, 2008
Journal · 2 recommendations
Well, I didn't go hanggliding this weekend. Conditions were not ideal for me, and I'm scared anyways. So I purchased a high performance trike (the kind that you pedal). I found that I need to securely ...

A man Useful and Victorious

By Italo_Violo · Posted April 28, 2008
Discussion in Living your life · 2 recommendations
Hello to everybody, I'm glad to be here. This is my first post but I know about Christopher Reeve and I receive letters from foundation some time ago. My name is Italo Violo and I'm from Venezuela. I ...

Introspections 4

By SirVab · Posted April 26, 2008
Journal · 2 recommendations
And we're off... They say we watch our lives flash in front of our eyes just before we die. I’m not quite sure who “They” are, or how “They” came up with this thesis, seeing how “They” obviously had to ...

Introspections 3

By SirVab · Posted April 11, 2008
Journal · 2 recommendations
I am not sure anymore whether the following actually took place during the morning or afternoon. Somehow, the time-line doesn’t quite work out. The trip from my home in Mufulira town to Luanshya, where ...

Men and Women of Steal

By professirx · Posted March 25, 2008
Discussion in Living your life · 2 recommendations
Men and Women of Steal That steal being what our wheelchairs are made out of for many of us using them in our lives everyday. Like Kal-El, he got his steal from living on Earth and his life was changed ...

COURAGE

By tmichaelroche · Posted November 17, 2009
Journal · 1 recommendation
Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared, and how not to fear what ought not be feared. From this knowledge comes an inner strength that subconsciously ...

pots/dysautonomia

By Nina372 · Posted November 2, 2009
Journal · 1 recommendation
Does anyone here have experience or knowledge about getting a pace maker for their postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (pots ...

rats walking-new study ucla,zurich

By jerry2 · Posted September 26, 2009
Discussion in New paralysis/rehabilitation · 1 recommendation
hi , im jerry im 37 paralysed n 07 waist down i fell two stories crushed my back in 6 places i am an incomplete.i have great upper body strenght anyways im writing cause of the new breakthru at ucla n ...