Hi Angie, Ive been on a vent too, for 5 years does it ever get better? Silas
From: Angie Novak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 11:37 AM To: William Willis; [email protected] Subject: Re: FW: Fwd: [QUAD-L] 15th year as a Quad Yes, since I was 13. And not really even 13 for very long, as my birthday is June 17, and my injury happened August 31. Thank you! William Willis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Angie, you have been vent dependent since age 13? In your circumstances, I think the anger would eat me alive. You are a strong and remarkable person. >From: Angie Novak >To: [email protected] >Subject: Fwd: [QUAD-L] 15th year as a Quad >Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:54:08 -0700 (PDT) > >So sorry, Eddie. I'm really glad you survived, though!! My 13th year is >on the 31st, that means that everyday after that one will be over half of >my life like this, ventilator dependent quadriplegic from a spinal cord >injury at the levels of C1 and C2. All because some fü€ker wasn't paying >attention to his turn signal and the road in front of him. I know >everyone's reason for being paralyzed, especially when the reason is >because of someone else, is awful. I'm not trying to one up anybody. I'm >just trying to ignore, (but have a need to acknowledge), that after the >31st of August, every day is going to be one more day that outnumbers the >13 years, two months, two weeks, and a few days that I was able bodied. > >Note: forwarded message attached. > >--------------------------------- >Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. _________________________________________________________________ Find a local pizza place, movie theater, and more….then map the best route! http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&ss=yp.bars~yp.pizza~yp.movie%20theater&cp=42.358996~-71.056691&style=r&lvl=13&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=950607&encType=1&FORM=MGAC01 To: [email protected] From: Hec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:16:35 -0400 Subject: [QUAD-L] 15th year as a Quad X-Apparently-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] via 66.196.101.47; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:19:59 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [204.122.16.69] Authentication-Results: mta167.mail.re3.yahoo.com from=usermail.com; domainkeys=neutral (no sig) Received: from 204.122.16.69 (EHLO ultra6.eskimo.com) (204.122.16.69) by mta167.mail.re3.yahoo.com with SMTP; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:17:24 -0700 Received: from ultra6.eskimo.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ultra6.eskimo.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l7NFGdQx022512; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:16:40 -0700 Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by ultra6.eskimo.com (8.14.0/8.12.10/Submit) id l7NFGbQg022495; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:16:37 -0700 Resent-Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:16:37 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: ultra6.eskimo.com: smartlst set sender to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using -f Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: [email protected] From: Hec Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:16:35 -0400 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.1/4033/Thu Aug 23 03:36:42 2007 on imap.usermail.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Resent-Message-ID: Resent-From: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/105799 X-Loop: [email protected] List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [QUAD-L] 15th year as a Quad Hi Guys, Today is a day that changed my life 15 years ago... I was a victim of a drunk driver... i'm a c5-c6 so cheers to all and may one day we shall see a brighter day when we have a cure for paralysis. Hec _____ Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48249/*http:/search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz> for grads at Yahoo! Search.

