BOOK: I Choose to Be Happy: A School Shooting Survivor’s Triumph Over Tragedy

February 27, 2013, 9:52 am

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Missy was one of eight students in a prayer group who were shot by a fellow student in the lobby of their Padukah, Kentucky high school. Her fortitude and faith keep her speaking on today’s urgent issues. About the Author Missy Jenkins nervously wheeled herself through the iron gates of the Kentucky State Reformatory. Waiting [...]

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Can you still enjoy sex if you’re severely disabled? This bride-to-be, who has no feeling from the chest down, gives a resounding yes, yes, YES!

March 9, 2013, 11:49 am

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Sophie Morgan was left paralysed after a car accident in 2003, aged 18; Has no sensation from the waist down but has no complaints about sex; Sophie thought she’d live in celibacy, and discovered quite the opposite. When I was invited to write about my sex life, I was hesitant. How much did I want [...]

After injury leaves him paralyzed, an MMA fighter battles still

March 31, 2013, 3:12 am

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This is the first in a series of stories about local mixed martial arts fighter Devin Johnson, who suffered a traumatic injury while training for his first professional bout. The fist catches his cheekbone. He inventories the pain, dismissing it quickly. Circling his adversary, he stays just wide of the strike zone. Fatigue is setting [...]

Aiming high: Young accident victim keeps up his studies and his attitude

April 7, 2013, 1:33 am

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BUTTE — Who hasn’t done what Calven Goza did? But unlike so many, Goza paid a steep price. On May 3, 2012, Goza, a student at Montana Tech, was socializing with friends. It was the end of a long semester, and Goza and a few friends were drinking at area bars. Somewhere along the line, [...]

Mark Pollock’s journey from extreme athlete to spinal-cord injury patient

April 9, 2013, 11:28 pm

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CAMBRIDGE — Mark Pollock was accustomed to facing challenges most people would never dream of when he suffered a setback three years ago that left him broken in body, if not in spirit. Blind since the age of 22, Pollock, a native of Northern Ireland, had conquered one frontier after another as an extreme adventure [...]

On anniversary of accident, paralyzed Severn man hopes for independence

April 10, 2013, 1:19 am

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There are moments in time that can forever alter your life. Evan Cronhardt’s life changed its course on April 10, 2008 as he was driving across an intersection near his Severn home. His Jeep was struck by a vehicle that may have been racing on Quarterfield Road. Evan was thrown from his Jeep, then crushed [...]

Paralysed Horse Rider Claire Lomas: I worried I’d never have children

April 15, 2013, 11:16 am

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Last year Claire Lomas, who is paralysed from the chest down, was hailed as one of the most inspiring women in Britain when she completed the London Marathon in 17 days with the help of a bionic suit. Unable to feel her feet, she had to look down at every step she took over the [...]

The Long Way Home

April 18, 2013, 11:41 am

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LAKE CITY – One year ago, Mackenzie Gorden was leading the life of a typical teenager. As a high school junior, she participated in cheerleading and dance team at South Central Calhoun High School and prepared for the recital at the studio in Carroll where she took dance lessons. Just weeks after that recital, Gorden’s [...]

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Still Me, part two

May 14, 2013, 2:50 am

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“It’s like going from 21 to zero, when you first learn to crawl and walk. Now I have to learn to move my body in a whole different way.” When Janice Wray lost control of her car on Route 95 in Connecticut last year, everything stopped. A 2009 graduate of East Greenwich High School, Janice [...]

Bad choices can change lives forever

May 21, 2013, 12:58 am

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In April 2007, Amanda left a prom after-party with a friend who had been drinking. On the way home, the driver crashed into a ditch. Amanda’s spinal cord was injured, and she was paralyzed from the neck down. She was hospitalized for five months and went through a grueling regimen of physical therapy each day. [...]

Spanaway’s Logan Seelye walks on, with support

June 7, 2013, 7:36 am

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Logan Seelye doesn’t like to use the word paralyzed. After suffering a life-changing injury nearly 10 years ago at a summer football camp, the 26-year-old Spanaway resident has heard enough about what he might never do again. Logan Seelye doesn’t like to use the word paralyzed. After suffering a life-changing injury nearly 10 years ago [...]

Girl Paralyzed In Crash Re-learns To Dance

June 23, 2013, 5:27 am

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Star, Idaho — Just months after a violent crash left 12-year-old Meghan Wildman paralyzed from the waist down, she is proving that you don’t need the use of your legs to dance. On March 16th, 2013, the Wagner family was involved in terrible car accident that injured Trina Holley-Wagner and all five of her kids. [...]

Jesse Billauer: Happiness Interview

June 30, 2013, 4:02 am

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You’re 17, and the most pressing concerns in your life are binge-drinking, prom, and being your parents’ worst nightmare.  The so-called “real world” is incomprehensible to you, and you’re still proud of that freshly printed piece of plastic in your wallet called a “driver’s license.” Doesn’t 17 seem far away?  That’s because, for most of [...]

Vic surgery hope for quadriplegics

July 3, 2013, 9:00 am

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A hasty beach dive on Australia Day last year left Jim Anderson a quadriplegic. “I didn’t do a very good shallow dive. Went in too straight and just hit the bottom,” the 23-year-old Victorian explains. “It wasn’t really painful. I just couldn’t feel anything.” The spinal cord injury that paralysed his limbs left him with [...]

Wheelchair user Tony Stephenson explains about his life in the aftermath of contracting TB meningitis

July 4, 2013, 2:01 am

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Tony Stephenson became a wheelchair user at the age of 25 after contracting TB meningitis. He tells Health Correspondent Julia McWatt how he’s using his experiences to help others When Tony Stephenson became extremely unwell in his early 20s, doctors initially put it down to flu. But as his body struggled to fight off his [...]

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Showing the world that ‘different’ is beautiful

July 19, 2013, 5:30 am

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Life has thrown a lot at Coquitlam’s Jessica Kruger. At 15 years old she suffered a work-place accident resulting in a broken neck and spinal cord injury leaving her wheelchair bound. She once believed her injury took away all hopes of her being considered “beautiful,” let alone any chance of living a normal life, and [...]

Hope Eternal

July 22, 2013, 5:46 am

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The last thing Christa Sexton remembers is the fire truck careening toward her. When she woke up, face down on the warm highway asphalt, life as she knew it had radically changed. “I remember it perfectly – everything except for the impact, which is blanked out,” Christa says. “I could see two guys with firemen [...]

Inspirational Memoir: Hannah, Same Both Ways

June 20, 2013, 5:44 am

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“I pulled my jeans out of the wardrobe and my GAP hoodie. I did my hair for the umpteenth time and took one last look in the mirror before heading back downstairs. Little was I to know, but that would be the last time that I would be able to walk down a flight of […]

Young man breaks spine, takes recovery one day at a time

August 15, 2013, 3:35 am

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His doctor can’t say yet if he’ll ever walk again, but 26-year-old Anh Tuan Nguyen doesn’t worry about the future. After falling more than 20 feet from a ladder and seriously injuring his spine two months ago, he just takes things one day at a time. “It’s changed my life a bit,” Nguyen said thoughtfully, […]

Bride-to-be perseveres to walk down aisle after spinal-cord injury

August 22, 2013, 4:06 am

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Just like any other bride, Alissa Boyle finds herself immersed in wedding plans leading up to her Sept. 7 exchange of vows with Nathan Grimes at Lisbon Trinity Friends Church. And just like most brides, Boyle envisions walking down the aisle with her father, Jim, while her mother, Lori, and family and friends watch. But […]