Comments on: A Much Needed Update

By: Cleveland and More Walking — Spinal Cord Injury and Healing

Cleveland and More Walking — Spinal Cord Injury and Healing — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:39:15 +0000

[...] the last update, I mentioned starting to walk on a walker with a maximum of about fifty feet. That continues, and [...]

By: chris

chris — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:35:01 +0000

Hah! Monster? Nah. Just doing as much as I can with what I’ve got, hoping to keep getting more back. And yeah, I’m on Twitter (as ‘st0w’ – that’s a zero), although I don’t tweet too terribly often. Mostly just use it to keep up with the security sector. And no, I had no idea you almost went to Case. Back when it was CIT, huh? Secondary in appeal to me to the incredible people I met there was the school’s strong engineering curriculum. I’m hoping to integrate by technology background with medicine, and Case just seems the perfect place for me to be in that regard as well.

And Lasko, of course you’ll be invited. I’ve already ordered the cones for you.

By: chris

chris — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:20:32 +0000

Well Dad, my secret to doing things that are apparently undoable? It’s simple. I just don’t listen to people when they tell me I can’t do something.

By: Dad

Dad — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:11:06 +0000

It HAS been a while and I know you’ve been busy on a lot of fronts but you’ve gained substantial ground in recovery and I’ve wondered when you’d get around to telling us about it. I will wonder no more – AND I will remove Westin hotels from my list of acceptable places to stay.

Anniversaries can be difficult. They remind us of what we’ve lost as well as of what we’ve got, and letting go of what we’ve lost can take a while. Real happiness can be as much about what we let go as what we hold. So often our lives and possessions own us instead of the other way round. We learn to grieve and let go because we must but that hardly makes it easy to do so.

As you know, I’ve spent a good deal of time in prayer these past thirty years. And praying is like anything else in that the more we do it the better we get at it. I’ve gotten good but it still took me almost a month to settle down and pray effectively after your accident. Once I did, I was given a vision of you rising from your wheelchair and standing without support. I then prayed about whether or not to tell you what I’d seen.

I did, and this past Thursday the vision became reality as I watched you rise from your chair at Mt. Sinai and stand without support. I then looked on as you walked in a walker, played catch on your knees, rotated your midsection and otherwise demonstrated the muscular control and mobility you’ve regained since breaking out of the paralysis ten months ago by wiggling a single toe.

It was both awesome and gratifying to behold. But this is hardly the first time I’ve seen you do the apparently undoable. Perhaps in a future post you’ll let us in on the secret of doing so! ☺

By: e-Patient Dave deBronkart

e-Patient Dave deBronkart — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:26:20 +0000

Holy cow. You are a monster.

I wrote to my peeps about you.

I too will come to the going-away party. (btw, did you know I almost went to Case, back before it got Reserved?)

p.s. You on Twitter yet? @ePatientDave

By: Rob Lasko

Rob Lasko — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:42:57 +0000

Its good to see that you are venturing out if the city on your own. Make yourself ready for new paths that you will tread. The world is only as daunting as you let it be.

Also, on a lighter note, i better be on the guest list for the going away party. I will leave Boston to see you off, fo’ sho!