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On February 19^th, 2013 I was discharged from Froedtert Hospital’s Spinal Cord Injury Center (SCIC) rehab unit. I decided to stay until evening on the 19^th, because this gave me the chance to do all of my therapy sessions one last time. I even had a surprise – the wheelchair guy showed up with my permanent wheelchair! I would not have to go home with a loaner.

Is it hard to imagine a life where you reach another milestone every day? Every day you meet or exceed a goal, and are proud of yourself? That’s what my life is like, right now. Every day, it seems, I accomplish something I once saw as impossible.

On January 5th, 2013, I had a spinal cord injury that has left me a paraplegic. This blog entry is a continuation of my journey toward recovery.

Life can be very strange sometimes. On Sunday, January 13^th, I was so weak that I needed to take a nap after eating half of a bowl of rice krispies. Think about what a strange symptom that is. I was in the Neuro ICU at Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee, and my nurse called the doctor urgently. They decided to do emergency surgery that ended up saving my life. They knew that it was necessary, in part, because I could not eat a bowl of rice krispies. Life is strange.

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