Am I talking about death here? No, Im talking about life after a spinal cord injury. Why did I phrase the title of this article as I did? Because for many people who suffer a spinal cord injury, their first thoughts after being informed of paralysis, or wheelchairs, or a severed spinal cord, causing the patient to never be able to walk again, is indeed death. Why did I even live?
I know that was one of my earliest thoughts after I was able to understand what was going o…