Coping with Spinal Cord Injury

What was the hardest part of the first days in the hospital?

Category: First Days After SCI

Darren
Injured in 1993 at age 20, Quadriplegic

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Transcript

Probably coming to grips with the idea that I was somehow going to be this member of this group of quadriplegics, which I’d only heard about, and never, you know, could imagine what it would be.  Just me saying, “There’s no way in the world I’m going to be one of those.”  You know, so, kind of coming to grips with just a big life-changing experience, I think.  

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