Dude, you always get the guy's business card or phone number and try the lady…
From: Robert Vogel <[email protected]>
To: Jim Lubin <[email protected]>
Cc: RONALD L PRACHT <[email protected]>; Quad-list Post
<[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2017 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Great Quad movie "Waterdance"
Jim and Jeffery, well said! I also agree. Ironically the tagline for the
movie was “Live Boldly”—are you kidding me?
Speaking of great Quad Movies, there is an amazing Must Read quad book that is
a true story called: "Lucky Break: A Love Story” The true story of Kirk
Kilgour, an Olympic Level Volleyball player, who became a C4 complete quad, no
movement below his shoulder in his mid-20’s he was hired to coach the Italian
Volleyball team—a huge sport in Italy—and played professionally.
He was such an amazing person that—true story—after I finished a speech for the
National Spinal Cord Injury Association he came up to me to chat, and at the
same time a very attractive woman came up to talk with me as well. She offered
to get us drinks and intypical male fashion I thought “man if I can ditch the
quad I might have a chance with this woman”. As we got to talking I found his
stories so amazing that by the time she got back with our drinks my thought had
changed to, “ditch the woman, I want to hear more about this guy’s life” we
became close friends.
The book is about his life and is written by a woman that fell in love with him
when he was in his early 40’s. She was beautiful, athletic, lived in Aspen and
spent her days skiing, hiking, biking and met him by chance—she wanted to get
good seats to watchevents at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and he needed an
attendant—it turns out a friend of a friend introduced them via phone, sheflew
out to LA to do a week-long-trial run to see if it would work. It didn’t, she
said she couldn’t be his attendant because she had fallen in love with him—the
feeling was mutual. The book describes their life, the highs and lows, world
wide travel, Kirk meeting thePope and the Pope asking Kirk for his
autograph—true story.
I’m hoping somebody grabs hold of the book and turns it into a move, it would
be fantastic!
The book is available at Amazon. Here is a review I wrote about it:
https://permobilus.com/lucky-break-a-love-story/
Bob Vogel
On Mar 13, 2017, at 12:37 PM, Jim Lubin <[email protected]> wrote:
I made a list on IMDB Movie's featuring
Quadriplegicshttp://www.imdb.com/list/ls051082586/
On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 10:32 AM, RONALD L PRACHT <[email protected]>
wrote:
I watch a lot of tv but never came across this movie until I was on youtube
last night. Its about three guys that get paralyzed and their stuggles to deal
with it. Has Helen Hunt, Wesley snipes and others in the 1992 flick Waterdance.
Pretty realistic for a movie.
1992 The Waterdance
Ron
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