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Wheelchair users with spinal cord injury and other disabilities tell their personal stories.
Tim Ward was involved in a serious motor vehicle accident causing complete C5 tetraplegia. Tim spent five weeks in Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney before flying home to New Zealand to continue treatment and therapy in the Burwood Spinal Injuries Unit. Tim tells us of life before and after tetraplegia, his future plans, and offers a free ebook written by his mum.
My name is Graham, as a quadriplegic I’ve learnt a great deal about spinal cord injury paralysis and living life in a wheelchair. The physical emotional and social impact, and coming full circle with what I sometimes call, the gift of my accident. At 26 I knew very little about quadriplegia, that was all about to change.
It Was Mothers Day. Tegan was to visit with her Mum but detoured off road for a bit of “bush bashing” first. “It was fun for a while then things got out of hand. The last thing I remember was my boyfriend yelling at the driver to slow down. I woke up in hospital a C5 paraplegic.” Tegan shares her heartbreak upon learning she would never walk again, receiving her first wheelchair and…
Bob Salzman explains how “gimp” is just a word and shares his story of determination to walk independently leaving the wheelchair far behind. Pushing himself through a grueling exercise regime at the local YMCA incredibly Bob’s next goal is to run. “I had to believe in myself and believe that I could do more tomorrow than I was doing today…
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