About ten years ago I was struck by a car while on my bicycle. Three vertebrae shattered and two more fractured, so I can empathize with your experience.
I remember one day in the hospital vividly: they brought me into a room and stuck metal probes up and down my legs, administering mild shocks to measure the electrical response. The response was weak but detectable, and I was told afterwards that I would walk again and people probably wouldn't be able to tell at a glance that I'd been in any sort of accident, but that I would never have the muscle endurance to play competitive sports again.
I was between middle school and high school at the time and a die hard athlete, so even that news hit me hard. It was the only time through the whole ordeal that I cried.
So I wonder, how did it affect you when you were told you might not walk again? What emotions played across your mind? Did you believe it and succumb to a moment of despair; were you just in shock at the news; or did you resolve right off to prove them wrong and walk again?
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About ten years ago I was struck by a car while on my bicycle. Three vertebrae shattered and two more fractured, so I can empathize with your experience.
I remember one day in the hospital vividly: they brought me into a room and stuck metal probes up and down my legs, administering mild shocks to measure the electrical response. The response was weak but detectable, and I was told afterwards that I would walk again and people probably wouldn't be able to tell at a glance that I'd been in any sort of accident, but that I would never have the muscle endurance to play competitive sports again.
I was between middle school and high school at the time and a die hard athlete, so even that news hit me hard. It was the only time through the whole ordeal that I cried.
So I wonder, how did it affect you when you were told you might not walk again? What emotions played across your mind? Did you believe it and succumb to a moment of despair; were you just in shock at the news; or did you resolve right off to prove them wrong and walk again?
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