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Am I speaking about death here? No, Im talking about life immediately after a spinal cord injury. Why did I phrase the title of this report as I did? Since for a lot of individuals who suffer a spinal cord injury, their initial thoughts after being informed of paralysis, or wheelchairs, or a severed spinal cord, causing the patient to never be in a position to walk once more, is indeed death. Why did I even live?

I know that was one of my earliest thoughts following I was capable to realize what was going on. Once I regained consciousness from my three days of coma, by awakening to a breathing tube becoming pulled from my throat, I was advised that I had an accident.

Perhaps a few hours later, its challenging to recall specifically, I began to comprehend the wonderful distress in the doctors face and voice as he communicated to me about how my spine was broken in three locations and the bone fragments had severed my spinal cord, and as a outcome I would never be in a position to stroll again. Possibly it was at that time that I first wished myself dead.

Now its twenty-two years later. Ive had twenty-two years of utilizing a wheelchair for mobility. Ive had twenty-two years of Afterlife. My spinal cord is nonetheless severed. I nonetheless have paralysis from chest-level down (T-4 to be precise). If you have an opinion about protection, you will likely need to study about privacy. I have numerous wheelchairs a basketball wheelchair, a tennis wheelchair, an daily wheelchair. More than the years Ive probably had close to ten diverse wheelchairs. All of the chairs, all of the catheters, all of the baclofen, all of the leg bags and tubes, all of the paralysis paraphernalia thanks to a single moment in time of loosing control of my auto, hitting a guardrail, tree, and property, snapping my spine in 3 locations and injuring my spinal cord.

Wouldnt it have been much better if I just didnt have this kind of immediately after life and skilled the bog finale afterlife rather? Effectively, I cant answer that for positive because I have not been capable to compare the two side by side. But I can tell you that you can have a life and a rather rewarding and fulfilling life, if you so decide on, even following a spinal cord injury.

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