There are a lot of wheelchair versions of things, but I find them all to be a waste of time. Too much effort spent just trying to keep your body stable with most of those activities. Plus a lot of the fun came from just spontaneously going for a walk or canoeing trip. You have to plan everything out ahead of time and have people help you do most of those activities.

Plus my hands are way too weak, which really limits what I can do. It's more fun to just be good at the things I can do rather than struggle to do the things I could once do.

2 years ago we could have been best friends

I was paralyzed August 2008. How did you come up wit 2 years ago? lol

I dont know much bout that injury but i know some have more use of the upper body than others. Urs just waist down or it affect ur arms/hands waist up?

I was fat and lazy then

Green = muscles
Blue = feeling in skin

My left hand has numbness in the pinkey, ring finger, and half of the middle finger. The left thumb can't pull forward because the muscle kind of in the palm doesn't work, but it can pinch directly toward the index finger. My maximum strength is probably equivalent to a toddler in my left hand.

My right hand works in terms of muscle and feeling, but it is maybe as strong as a 7 year old's hands overall.

The pinkey-side of my forearm skin is numb and my tricep skin is numb. That's how I often burn my arms inadvertently on the stove/oven.

My pectorals and lats work. Everything else below my armpits doesn't work--voluntary muscles, that is.

Oh, and the C7 verterbae is in your neck kind of behind the adam's apple. that's the one I broke

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God I want to bang this girl at my gym she's like 5' even with some tattoos looks like a freak

Too awkward to ever go up to someone at the gym at talk to them though lol

that's tough man. how is/was the emotional coping process?
You must be a strong guy.

I hope that's not a rude question

Damn bro not to be a dick but damn u type like a fucking champ all things considered. But yea i can see y u dont bother with the things u used to love.

There really wasn't any coping process, not for me anyway. Once they told me I was paralyzed, I just took it as reality. I just did what they told me to do in order to get better. I didn't even cry at any point, if you can believe that. I guess because the realization came pretty gradually over the course of a codeine haze that went on for about a week.

There were support groups in rehab, but I didn't go to any of them because I felt fine mentally. Plus I had friends/family visiting me regularly, that helped.



Typing isn't the least bit hard. It's all just hunt n peck /w my index fingers and thumb.

The hardest part is hitting the left button on a game controller or the Z button on N64