To chime with everybody, it has been nine years since I was injured, I have laughed and struggled, I have return to school and almost completed a doctorate, I struggle everyday to be taken ligitamately, I have carved my niche and plow ahead like I have never been in a wheelchair, some "able" people think I am crazy, because I am out there with them everyday neck and neck, but we all know its just how you survive, and I think SCI survivors are better equipt to take the rough stuff, I love seeing one of us (or any disability for that matter) out and about, especially in positions of authority or high regard,,, keep plugging
Tim NOTE: The information contained in this message may be protected and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, or an authorized employee or agent of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer and any network to which your computer is connected. Thank you. -----Original Message----- From: John S. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 8/28/2007 1:55 PM To: RollinOn; quad-list Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] helping walking I about cried. I rember 30 years ago bargaining with god about moving a finger and I'm just so stunned. There is a miracle, I'm speechless. john ----- Original Message ---- From: RollinOn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: John S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; quad-list <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 3:24:24 PM Subject: RE: [QUAD-L] helping walking It was Matt that went to China and here's his web page http://friendpages.com/p/pages/cover.cgi?who=UmFuZG9tSVans_KOVsK0HAN5oNSnlbtS1W0yj_xndi3DtSTZdQuHA/RtkM3E41j_GrvYVvNls/zs58c25hXhuBqBalnUFNsFXq6JKr3/bRvtRtgub0XNEY8SkMBxp3akviuYmrfru4gJvqRiB1aZvCF7K4CjEOjztzt38LO8Acn7Za/KXTbsROqRSKd6LA6iExgDVlUtUY0-&site=fp&pageid=wermbo He went there last year and is doing better but no miraculous cure by no means but it did help. He used to have to use a peach tree but now is capable of a joystick so that does say a lot. Mark Jackson RollinOn From: John S. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 11:30 AM To: quad-list Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] helping walking Dear Buc, Nobody has succesfully walked from any surgery or treatment from China or anywhere else. No faith healer has produced an honest miracle with a SCI. Right now most of us are hoping stem cells may unlock some spinal injuries but China is the only nation doing anything with stem cells and while they are leaping ahead of us, I don't know of anyone regaining significant function. China simply hasn't got the technological capabilities America has. Without sounding political, many of us are awaiting Mr Bush's exit from office so that we can at least see if theres hope to repair nerve tissues with stem cells. Someone from this list went to China about a year or so ago. I can't find the thread to tell you who it was or what the results were. I'm hoping someone else will read this and fill in the blanks. I really do have brain damage. I'm not this stupid..or maybe I am. john ----- Original Message ---- From: HOWARD HINSHAW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Dillon Ewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: quad-list <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 10:35:46 AM Subject: [QUAD-L] helping walking hi anyone, please any walking information operation being sci in china? buc ----- Original Message ----- From: Dillon Ewa To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: quad-list Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 4:53 PM Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] newly injured "me". Oh Dave, I have been injured 10 plus years and and still trying to find my way. My biggest obstacle was my health, from pneumonia, to bladder infections and pressure sores. I struggled through school but jobs are hard to come by. Sometimes I feel myself a failure at not having progressed or achieved as much as I want or expected. How does one cope when not having the excuse of being newly injured? Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to see you going through this Silas - remember, many of us have been there. Most have lost the mate they were with 'before', many of us have questioned God's 'wisdom', and all of us are wondering what else can go wrong. I'm sure had I not broken my neck, I'd have been dead by now - Mach II with my hair on fire don't-cha-know. I even drool now at these highly over powered crotch rockets and sky divers. Yes there are better lives but there are worse ones too. Keep your head up and eyes looking frontwards. Tomorrow is a new day. Dave In a message dated 8/26/2007 6:32:28 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey Dave, Sure wish I had your faith, I wonder sometimes if thereâ?Ts a God. Iâ?Tm having so much pain and Iâ?Tve prayed and prayed to God for a little relief, how do you keep the faith. Everybody says thereâ?Ts a reason for this and Gods got the master plan, my life has changed so much in the past 6 months that Iâ?Tm having trouble managing my farm. If something donâ?Tt change I think Iâ?Tll have to quit. Even my relationship with my girl friend is suffering, she thinks itâ?Ts something to do with her but itâ?Ts not. I love her to death, I sure hope I can make it up to her soon! Everybody says the first couple years are the worst, but not for me. Sorry for venting guess I just need to talk to people that know what Iâ?Tm going through. Thanks Silas From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 6:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: [QUAD-L] newly injured "me". ATTA BOY DAVE! W [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Danny, i'm so sorry to see you joining this list - it can mean only one thing - you broke your freeking neck !!!! my 1wst couple years were the toughest for sure. i started out thinking - i'll walk away from this like my brother did - he shattered c5 and had c5-6-7 fused together - no paralysis. doc said mine was 'different' - i said 'ok, i can do DIFFERENT' he said , 'no- REAL different.' little did i know what he meant. he meant - no walking (and of course no dancing, no swimming, no playing, no shitting, no pissing like a normal man...... ok i hope you get the point. the thing is - there is still a lot of things i CAN do. i had and raised 3 kids --->( kidspage ) who have THEIR KIDS --> ( Dave & Patty's Grandkids ) i have a story --> (Dave's story ) AND a life -->( Dave's Broken Van ). DO NOT GIVE UP. this is a fight you chose to fight -->(Dave's Philosophy ) don't think you are here by accident or maybe GOD hates you, he doesn't. you are because you chose to be here, now do what needs doing,. GOD BLESS YOU MY FRIEND - YOU ARE ONE OF US AND WE ARE BLESSED. DAVE Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL.com. Dave Visit My Home Page Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL.com. Ready for the edge of your seat? Check out tonight's top picks on Yahoo! TV. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.484 / Virus Database: 269.12.10/976 - Release Date: 8/27/2007 6:20 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.484 / Virus Database: 269.12.10/976 - Release Date: 8/27/2007 6:20 PM ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's Comedy with an Edge to see what's on, when. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/222
