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BOOK: I Choose to Be Happy: A School Shooting Survivor’s Triumph Over Tragedy
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...
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Can you still enjoy sex if you’re severely disabled? This bride-to-be, who...
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...
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After injury leaves him paralyzed, an MMA fighter battles still
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...
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Aiming high: Young accident victim keeps up his studies and his attitude
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...
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Mark Pollock’s journey from extreme athlete to spinal-cord injury patient
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...
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On anniversary of accident, paralyzed Severn man hopes for independence
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...
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Paralysed Horse Rider Claire Lomas: I worried I’d never have children
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....
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The Long Way Home
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...
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Still Me, part two
“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...
View ArticleBad choices can change lives forever
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...
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Spanaway’s Logan Seelye walks on, with support
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...
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Girl Paralyzed In Crash Re-learns To Dance
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...
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Jesse Billauer: Happiness Interview
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...
View ArticleVic surgery hope for quadriplegics
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....
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Wheelchair user Tony Stephenson explains about his life in the aftermath of...
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...
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Showing the world that ‘different’ is beautiful
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...
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Hope Eternal
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...
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Inspirational Memoir: Hannah, Same Both Ways
“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...
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Young man breaks spine, takes recovery one day at a time
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...
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Bride-to-be perseveres to walk down aisle after spinal-cord injury
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...
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