Tag: Personal Story
Paralyzed since ’89, Bob Bell still seeks challenges
Adventurer Bob Bell won't let paralysis keep him from living his life.
Bob Bell is a funny, smart, inquisitive, witty guy.
The kind of fellow that...
Injured as undergrad, college teacher learns to cope
ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Pensacola, Fla., is more than 1,100 miles from St. John's University in Collegeville, Minn., but Robert Bell found himself feeling...
The Need for Speed: Quadriplegic race car driver defies conventions
Chris Hrabik's blue-green Subaru Impreza doesn't have the brooding menace of a muscle car. It's dusty and plastered with sponsors' decals. Parked behind his...
Zina Hermez – My book, Not Without God: A Story of Survival has been...
What started out a dream has now become reality. I began writing Not Without God a couple of years ago, and I wrote sporadically...
Young man introduces extreme sport to skate park
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Spinal cord injury isn't stopping one skater
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - A car crash last summer left 19-year-old Blake Simpson with a spinal injury and...
How one man’s spinal cord injury is still healing 24 years later
“I remember hitting the bottom, being face down, and my entire body getting a tingling feeling like when your foot falls asleep. It was...
Attitude can play significant role in recovery from paralyzing injury
The news was the kind commonly termed tragic, yet the communication from Amy Van Dyken-Rouen's hospital room in Arizona saturated the social media universe...
Disabled woman helps inspire others
Sabrina Cohen uses the tragedy that left her paralyzed to help others in need.
Visit SabrinaCohenFoundation.org
Quadriplegic savors what others take for granted
Making the most of every moment
It will be 10 years this November since Justin Cochran attempted to entertain his family with a back handspring...
Living ‘an Active Life with Inactive Feet’ After Spinal Cord Injury
A cautioning inspirational quote—Expect Nothing. Be ready for anything.—might be wise words to live by, but with a spinal cord injury, nothing like it...
