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From: Allen.Marker@p0.f14.n105.z1.fidonet.org (Allen Marker)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: dealing with life in a chair
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Date: 27 Nov 90 21:11:51 GMT
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[This is from the Spinal Injury Conference]

Hello. My name is allen Marker and i am a para. with a c6-7 fracture. I 
was a guitar player in a nimber of bands and also had trained and taught 
martial arts for 16 years. i fell off a 45 foot balcony and nailed my 
neck on a speed bump in the parking lot. Since then i have had a hard 
time dealing with not being able to do all the things i used to do. I 
kind of feel like i died there because i cant play professionaly anymore 
nor can i teach to be able to realy defend myself or others. i'm not 
looking for pity just wondering how people can find other things to take 
the place of everything that you had. I have never confronted this and 
if i hadnt seen this board i probably never would have. any help or 
feedback would be listened to and hopefully i can benifit from it. 
thanks for listening.
       allen

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