Tag: Personal Story

Senior aims to raise awareness about spinal cord injuries

Helped by the Physically Challenged Athletes Scholarship Fund, Jennifer Bou Lahoud targets a career in neuroscience Jennifer Bou Lahoud walks confidently, with purpose, in front...
Travis Roy gives up to 50 speeches a year. Photo / AP

Coming to terms with a life sentence

In 1995, 20-year-old Travis Roy was making his debut for the Boston College ice hockey team when 11 seconds into his collegiate career he...

10 years after devastating accident left her paralyzed, young Southold woman thanks those who’ve...

Monday marked 10 years since the devastating accident that left Southold resident Kim Haeg, now 28, clinging to life. After the 2004 car accident in...

Utah Prom Queen Gives Crown to Special Needs Student

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d9FrkHwLSM Vote for Kendra Muller: May is Mobility Awareness month! Please vote every day, you can get two votes a day by answering a easy...

Chris Norton rising above spinal cord injury to help others

CEDAR FALLS | He made the tackle on a kickoff in October 2010 but was down on the turf at Luther College. When they...

Howell’s ‘unbreakable spirit’ is a winning recipe

MT. PLEASANT — Charlie Ray Howell of Mt. Pleasant scored his first auto racing victory at North Alabama Speedway (Tuscumbia, Al.) since being confined...

It was a 16-foot fall, 16 years ago. She has soared much further.

ELLSWORTH, Wis. -- When someone told her to move out of the way during a scene change for "The Wizard of Oz," Tasha Schuh...

Quadriplegic doctor lives a fulfilled life

Dr. James Post overcame long odds to achieve dream Overcoming insurmountable challenges doesn’t begin to scratch the surface for Dr. James Post. Post, 43, a Hanover...

Ed Costa Jr. living life to fullest ‘on wheels’

At age 24, Ed Costa Jr. had an ideal life with a great job, good health and good friends. One spring day, during a two-week...

Recovering quadriplegic returns to the stage

(WJBK) - A 28-year-old man from Clarkston is told he'll never walk again after a tragic accident, but with modern medicine and raw determination...