About three weeks after high school graduation (1992), I experienced a car accident that left me paralyzed from the neck-down. The doctors gave me absolutely no hope of any recovery. I refused to accept their grim predictions! I have reached a state, after 17 years, of normal feeling throughout my body.
I now have full use of my right arm and leg and partial, but improving use of my left side. I am able to transfer myself from my electric wheelchair into the drivers seat of my van, where I drive with absolutely no modifications, other than a knob on the steering wheel that allows me to steer with only one hand. I operate the gas and brake with my right foot, as anyone else .
