Holy Cow. Wow. My Friend is a Paraplegic.... Blog.. reprint from fan mail... by Monty K Reed.
First off what an amazing service you are providing it almost brought tears to my eyes!! My best friend is a paraplegic with limited use of his upper body (mainly large motor skills if any) and we have conducted many hours of research to find any improvements of life and its vast restrictions due to his disability.
About 7 years ago my friend was in a motor vehicle accident where he was the passenger and the car went off the road and down a rocky cliff. He laid there conscious for about 5 hours before anyone noticed the accident. He suffered damage to his spinal cord that was inoperable nor repairable which left him bound to a wheelchair at 24 years old. He no longer could participate in his most loved sport of basketball that he had routinely spent most of his leisure time playing or tent camping that he devoted almost every summer to. Watching first-hand the transformation of this man that had such a love for life itself diminish into a hardened and unmotivated individual almost crushed me entirely. Only now can we put those horrible first few years behind us and move forward with the hope that one day he may be able to regain any slight amount of movement that he so desperately deserves. He has completely revamped his attitude and outlook on life to accept what has happened, but I know somewhere deep down in his heart he wishes to be able just to walk outside and complete a simple process as checking the mail, even though he would never complain that he can’t.
Thanks for the hope you are giving by conducting your studies and charity walks it means the world to us. You all are amazing and I would be honored to know how to sign my friend up to possibly assist in any of your trials or even to be approved for your current systems.
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Imagine you are working in a lab and you are trying to make science fiction into sicence. "All you have to do is take the fi out of sci fi" I would tell people who had just joined the team. When it comes to actually doing it.... sometimes it takes a little more work than planned.
Every week I recieve messages from poeple like this one. We changed another life, we saved another life.
It would be bad to say it gets old. It really does not. Saving lives is serious business to everyone we have working on the crew.
From the phone calls and emails we have recieved I would say that the volunteers at They Shall Walk org have saved over 1200 people from commiting suicide.
Lets make this a reality. Whoever this is ..... lets make a donation so they can walk in a LIFESUIT.
