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Am I speaking about death here? No, Im speaking about life after a spinal cord injury. Why did I phrase the title of this short article as I did? Due to the fact for numerous individuals who suffer a spinal cord injury, their first thoughts following being informed of paralysis, or wheelchairs, or a severed spinal cord, causing the patient to never ever be able to walk once again, is indeed death. Why did I even reside?

I know that was one of my earliest thoughts immediately after I was able to realize what was going on. After I regained consciousness from my 3 days of coma, by awakening to a breathing tube becoming pulled from my throat, I was advised that I had an accident.

Possibly a handful of hours later, its hard to recall exactly, I started to comprehend the great distress in the doctors face and voice as he communicated to me about how my spine was broken in three places and the bone fragments had severed my spinal cord, and as a outcome I would never ever be capable to walk once more. Perhaps it was at that time that I very first wished myself dead.

Now its twenty-two years later. Ive had twenty-two years of employing a wheelchair for mobility. Ive had twenty-two years of Afterlife. My spinal cord is nevertheless severed. I still have paralysis from chest-level down (T-four to be precise). I have a number of wheelchairs a basketball wheelchair, a tennis wheelchair, an everyday wheelchair. More than the years Ive almost certainly had close to 10 various 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 one particular moment in time of loosing manage of my auto, hitting a guardrail, tree, and home, snapping my spine in three places and injuring my spinal cord.

Wouldnt it have been much better if I just didnt have this sort of right after life and experienced the bog finale afterlife as an alternative? Properly, I cant answer that for certain because I have not been in a position to evaluate 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 pick, even after a spinal cord injury.

Michael E. Hylton, TheWheeledWorld.org, June, 2006 johnson chiropractic clinic principles baltimore chiropractic