Tag: Personal Story
Life-changing injury has woman striving to fulfill dreams
After suffering severe spinal cord injury in workplace accident, Natalie Barnhard has devoted herself to helping others with spinal cord injuries through her Wheels...
Blind Adventurer Pushes New Frontier of Science
Mark Pollock: stepping forward for those with spinal injuries
Technology is playing a huge part in increasing Irishman Marks Pollock’s chances of recovery from...
Bride-to-be perseveres to walk down aisle after spinal-cord injury
Just like any other bride, Alissa Boyle finds herself immersed in
wedding plans leading up to her Sept. 7 exchange of vows with Nathan Grimes...
Young man breaks spine, takes recovery one day at a time
His doctor can’t say yet if he’ll ever walk again, but 26-year-old Anh Tuan Nguyen doesn’t worry about the future. After falling more than...
Hope Eternal
The last thing Christa Sexton remembers is the fire truck careening toward her.
When she woke up, face down on the warm highway asphalt, life...
Showing the world that ‘different’ is beautiful
Life has thrown a lot at Coquitlam's Jessica Kruger.
At 15 years old she suffered a work-place accident resulting in a broken neck and spinal...
Wheelchair user Tony Stephenson explains about his life in the aftermath of contracting TB...
Tony Stephenson became a wheelchair user at the age of 25 after contracting TB meningitis. He tells Health Correspondent Julia McWatt how he’s using...
Vic surgery hope for quadriplegics
A hasty beach dive on Australia Day last year left Jim Anderson a quadriplegic.
"I didn't do a very good shallow dive. Went in too...
Jesse Billauer: Happiness Interview
You’re 17, and the most pressing concerns in your life are binge-drinking, prom, and being your parents’ worst nightmare. The so-called “real world” is...
Girl Paralyzed In Crash Re-learns To Dance
Star, Idaho -- Just months after a violent crash left 12-year-old Meghan Wildman paralyzed from the waist down, she is proving that you don't...
