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Attitude is how we react to life

May 25, 2011, 6:37 am
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BONAIRE — There are 541 graduates in this year’s senior class at Houston County High School. A sea of caps and black gowns will fill Reaves Arena on Saturday night at the Georgia National Fairgrounds and Agricenter in Perry. By virtue of the alphabet, and also because he is an honor student, Alex Adcock won’t [...]
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Paralysed Witley man tells of moment his heart stopped

May 25, 2011, 6:45 am
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Dan Eley

Paralysed from the elbows down and confined to a wheelchair, Dan Eley could be forgiven for being bitter with life. The 33 year old from Witley broke his neck while teaching in Colombia. Unable to afford the specialist flight home an internet campaign raised enough money to bring him back. But the former charity worker [...]
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Teenager told he’d never be able to move again set to walk West Highland Way

June 4, 2011, 7:20 am
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THREE years ago, Connor Docherty was paralysed from the neck down after a horrendous rugby injury … now he’s going to walk the West Highland Way. The teenager had broken his neck and badly injured his spinal cord in a tackle and was warned he might never be able to move again. But now the [...]
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Renner Gives High Hopes to those with Disabilities

June 30, 2011, 3:24 am
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Scott Renner

In the Dawson Building at Auburn University, Scott Renner can be found working long hours at the Center for Disability Research and Services.
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Triumphing over spinal cord injury

July 8, 2011, 2:18 pm
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Kevin and Tiffany Mather

Kevin and Tiffany Mather adjusted to a life-changing accident through Triumph Foundation Kevin Mather loved to ride his bike. On July 3, 2009, the Valencia resident pedaled along Sierra Highway with a dozen buddies on a beautiful Southern California morning. Moments later, Mather was lying on the asphalt, the white line that divided the bike [...]
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Future uncertain for car accident victim

February 1, 2012, 12:29 am
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WOODSTOCK — Just over a month after a car accident left him almost completely paralyzed, Etowah High School student Tyler Rolison continues to fight to get back everything he lost. The 17-year-old was at his grandmother’s house in Newnan for a week during Christmas. On Dec. 29, Tyler was driving home to Woodstock to celebrate [...]
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Cameron picks self up after paralyzing accident

March 13, 2012, 8:33 am
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Kristen Cameron is learning how to exist in her new body

When blades scrape across a pristine sheet of ice in the women’s Frozen Four this weekend, it will be the realization of many players’ dreams. But for one former hockey All-American, it’s a reminder of a world she’s missing. A world she works every day to be a part of again. Sept. 12, 2010 was [...]
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Spinal Cord Injury Solutions!

July 5, 2012, 9:13 am
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My daily tracking journal on how to overcome paralysis I never thought I’d be hit by a car while crossing the street on my way to school at sixteen years old! I never expected to live with a spinal cord injury every day for the rest of my life. I was paralyzed. It’s a miracle [...]
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Spinal Cord Injury Patient Walks After 26 Years in Wheel Chair Thanks To Stem Cells

August 23, 2012, 3:11 am
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Spinal Cord Injury Patient Walks After 26 Years in Wheel Chair Thanks To Stem Cells

After 26 years in a wheel chair William Orr is walking. It is with the assistance of a walker, but he is walking. Orr is walking to get his mail, he is walking to rehab from his car and he is planning on walking into his 35th high school reunion. After 26 years in a [...]
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Injured bride describes accident

August 28, 2012, 1:00 am
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CHAMPION – Amber Hogue felt her neck snap, and the mother of six immediately started praying. The 31-year-old woman said her head slumped forward into her lap, and she couldn’t feel anything from the neck down. Her first thought was that she was paralyzed. Next, she thought about her children. “I started praying nonstop,” she [...]
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Real People: Wheelchair athlete turns injury into inspiration

September 11, 2012, 8:32 am
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A storm, a tree and a life-changing injury turned college basketball player Zac Bradley into a rugby fan. It happened swiftly back in May 2011, when the 20 year-old from Riverdale was in his car. “I was driving in a storm when a tree fell on top of the car, but I don’t even remember [...]
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Brokeback River Hotdog

August 19, 2012, 12:17 am
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Brokeback River Hotdog

In 2007 a paraplegic and his two friends paddled the length of the Mississippi river.
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“A few quick tips on how I heal”

September 25, 2012, 12:46 am
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My dad fell in church the other day. He said it happened as he was going down the steps. He felt a shooting pain in his back shortly before and there was nowhere to sit. As he walked down the step his leg gave out, he collapsed.  Other church members hurried over to catch him. [...]
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Frederick man looks to future after spinal injury

October 11, 2012, 12:02 am
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Cole Truebenbach

FREDERICK — Though Cole Truebenbach is paralyzed from the chest down, he quickly lifts himself out of his wheelchair. With little effort, Truebenbach hefts his body into the contraption next to him. The device — equipped with treads instead of tires, camouflage instead of leather — is an all-terrain vehicle embodied in a wheelchair. A [...]
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Getting Back Up

October 22, 2012, 4:08 am
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Scott Fedor

Scott Fedor, MBA ’04, charts a new course after a devastating spinal cord injury. For Scott Fedor, MBA ’04, a common entry in an old planner — “pick up dry cleaning” — is a portal to another life. Though Fedor scribbled that to-do in 2009, he left the pants hanging at a suburban Cleveland cleaners. [...]
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Mother, son hosting fundraiser for spinal cord injury victims

October 31, 2012, 4:57 am
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Walking With Anthony

A beach accident prompts a Fort Lauderdale mother and son to create Walking With Anthony, a non-profit that raises money to help spinal cord injury victims. Anthony Purcell’s voice grows strained when he speaks about that February 2010 day that changed his life. Back in Florida visiting cousins, he dove into the water off South [...]
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Taking Steps

November 23, 2012, 7:59 am
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Taking Steps

Sometimes my sister forgets that she can’t walk. Or that she can’t stand without help. Like when the curtain went down on the recent Rock of Ages musical and everyone in the Jubilee Auditorium jumped to their feet for an ovation and, naturally, she went to stand, too. Instead, my sister boomeranged back into her [...]
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Doug Smith: The rebound of a lifetime

November 24, 2012, 7:48 am
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Doug Smith in his halo

Doug Smith was one of the best hockey prospects ever to emerge from Ottawa. He was taken second overall in the 1981 NHL draft, but his pro career was turbulent and ended in tragedy with a broken neck. Surgery left him a quadriplegic. But Smith is not a man easily defeated: he’s using his epic [...]
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Stronger every day: Brian Keefer of ‘Extreme Makeover’ is gaining mobility after a paralyzing accident

November 30, 2012, 5:41 am
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Brian Keefer

“It’s a personal choice to be in a good mood or a bad mood, and I choose to be in a good mood.” – Brian Keefer It’s been more than four years since Brian Keefer attempted a triple flip into a foam-filled pit at a Fairview Township gym and plunged head-first into the hard foundation [...]
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Zina Hermez – Wheelchair in the workplace?

February 9, 2013, 10:38 pm
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“Are you okay?” my student asked concerned. “Sure, why wouldn’t I be?” I responded in a confused tone, but I knew why she asked. “Oh, it’s just…because you’re sitting today,” she started to stutter as her voice got lower almost not claiming what she just said. As I rolled my wheelchair to the front of [...]
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