andrewf5

10/10 would marry.

What about shoes? Any setbacks there? This is insanely interesting.

Hey man! I literally just read every single blog post from the bottom up. Though an unfortunate situation, from the 3rd person it seems very interesting to re learn functionality with so many things...its almost being a kid again and learning stuff, which seem kinda cool! Maybe not, but I really did enjoy reading your journey.

So a few questions on the latter end of reading. So you have limited (none? some?) functionality in your fingers, but you have functionality in the upper portion of your arms. Wouldn't the injury be below where your spinal cord "meets" that portion of your spinal cord to control them? It just seems strange that it would only effect a certain part of your limb. Do you know why or how that is?

Second, did it effect the muscles above the injury whatsoever? Keeping your head up, face muscles, talking, etc at all aside from the swallowing and immediate difficulties. I don't know how to word it, so I hope it made sense.

Are there any long term possibilities of your situation worsening, assuming you stay active with a partial manual chair and whatnot?

I have a few friends that ride motocross that have had some serious injuries over the years - one guy is a paraplegic (legs only? right?) and has a special bike made that straps him in and all works with hand controls, and he seriously is crazy good still, its super rad.