[VENT-L] Brooke Ellison movie

[Mark Miller]

I watched the movie last night with high hopes that able bodied viewers would see what it was really like to be in her situation.  My son had an accident when he was 10 and is a C1 quad (this is 6 years ago).  As I watched the actress who portrayed Brooke speak while on the vent I was amazed at the number of syllables she could get out and the quality of her voice and also the fact that she never had to wait for the vent to give her a breath before she could speak.  Maybe this is how you all are, but my son is more like C.R. was....raspy, has to wait for the vent, can only get a few words out before the breath is gone.   Maybe I am too critical of this "real life" movies because I know what it is like to live this every day.  I don't hardly think it is realistic to just show up at school one day and declare that your back!  It just doesn't work that way!  And wasn't it marvelous that Harvard had already thought of everything she might need ahead of time!  Amazing.   I applaud her and her family for the great strides that she has made.  I am just a bit surprised that C.R. would direct a movie that wasn't more true to life.   Can anyone explain to me hoe this mouth retainer works that she used in college to move her chair? Laurie