Ive been curious for a while how poeple on here, themselves or friends, family etc got their SCI. Mine personally was a major medical misdiagnosis and left untreaded for over 3 years. How did you get yours. If this has been done before, Simon please feel free to delete.

Admin Note: I've added some more options to the poll.

I was in a car accident,, the typical spill.. Way too drunk. Valet handed me my own keys while the Manager when it to call us a cab. Apparently those two dont communicate.

Valet should took some responsibilty as he must of known you had had too much. Atleast your here and we enjoy your company, lol.

I got mine at Wat-mart, but it's broken. I'm glad I kept the reciept , so I can take it back and trade it in on a good one.
Sorry , that was a bad joke!
I actually fell asleep at the wheel and had a nasty car wreck. Thankfully , no one was with me in the car and I didn't hit any one.
I did this to myself and I'm dealing with it. I don't think I could "deal " with it as well If I did this to family or friends, or even a stranger.
As I fell asleep my car left the road , hit a small ditch and started fliping violently. I was wearing my seatbealt but it totaly broke. I was thrown in front of the still flipping car and it kinda rolled over me.
It got me at c-6,7,8 and T-10,11,12 complete.It squished hy head too. So if any one thinks I must be brain damaged, your right. The only lasting effect of my brain injury is : I can't taste or smell anything. I'm no crazier now than I was before . HAHA!

I went out riding with a friend and fliped my dirtbike......crushed my c-5

car crash here also. Had a branch from a tree 12 inches inside my back through my side and obliterated l5. Only an incomplete though which is lucky.

silent heart attack and fell off ladder landing face first, body went over my head and back down.

I had a sign fall on my head which caused my back and head problems. I have a moderate brain injury now, the sign dislocated several vertebrae that was fixed with traction and braces(no damage aside from arthritis from C3 down so I don't really count those injuries)...........but where I broke it at L2 I have spinal cord damage.

Made an ultimate driving machine earn it's name. Like dave i excited while the car was doin barrel roll's.

Add me to the list of car accidents, winding curvy road, 60 mph gusting wind, light 2 door car, 6 inch ditch = end over end 5 times.

car accident, but I was not at fault, I was hit. the seat and seatbelt broke, and I was thrown from my flipping car.

Came off motorbike but the injury was caused by landing headfirst into a bank.

had neuroblastoma at 3 weeks, was operated and being an SCI patient is the effect.

I had a motor bike accident ended up not only breaking my back T3,T4,L1 but broke all of my ribs on my right side punctured lung ruptured artery which needed open chest surgery,helmet came off 2 banged my head abit and was only going 30mph it was a van that broke my fall lol that did the damage.

I ussually tell curious people I was in a car accident but I won't lie here. I was driving drunk and ran when cops tried to pull me over. As it always happens I ended up in a dead end then I tried to turn around. He sad I tried to run him over (this I don't remember). He fired 11 shots. 2 went wild, 8 didn't go through tailgate, and one hit me broke c6 4pieces, c7 shattered, and t1 cracked in half. Bullet lodged in my throat hit no major arteries or organs. Guess it wasn't my day!

I contracted an infection in spinal cord ™. Felt funny for a few weeks and then I tried to go to work one day and couldnt.
Bummer.

I checked "car accident", but that's not entirely accurate. I was on my bicycle, but I didn't call it a sports injury because I was commuting, not competing. It was a hit-and-run, and the evidence and series of events is very dodgy, so I don't call it an accident.

But yeah, I was hit by a car while on a bicycle...at 60+ mph.

*edit* the car was going 60+ mph, not me. I was probably going about 10-12...long uphill in the last mile of a 30-ish mile commute. (short ride that day...I was averaging 50-mile rides)

I hate just saying car accident, I was on a bicycle. A drunk in a truck ran over me. I was so messed up, they didn't notice I had a broken neck for 5 hours.
john

I had a disc herniating into the spinal cord. Most obvious sign something was wrong was my balance getting worse which a GP put down to my weight. I am abt 13st. a 5'6 and was quite fit due to doing a lot of sports, but also had a lot of falls. Was disgnosed just in time. As it is I walk slowly and wobbly with crutches, but I walk even up the stairs.

Mine way a car accident like most of you.

17 yrs 1990 c7

I don't have a clue when, where, or how. Always chocked problems I had up to arthritis and being a clutz.

I knew I had a blown disc at L-4 around 1995 and did'nt know I'd fractured my neck until July 2006. Neuro surgeon said they were old injuries. Ability to use limbs, bladder, bowel went fast. By the time surgery was done a month later, permanant damage had been done.

Sometimes it drives me bonkers trying to figure out what I did wrong and when..........

Very spectacular snowmobile wreck.

My story on how I became disabled is so atypical that I said 'birth defect' even though I don't have a birth defect.

I've never met another person who became disabled the way I that I was.

I was born 3.5 months prematurely which caused me to have bleeding in my spine. So, I've been an L3/L4 (very incomplete) para my whole life (26 years).

I had a pseudo-aneurism of the aorta caused by a severe streptococci infection. During an operation to remove the infection I suffered an infarction to the spinal cord due to lack of blood flow. This resulted in a SCI at T10/11. All I could move at the time was one toe, and my shoulder. Though very hard work and excellent therapists I am now an L2.

MVA March 27 1987 Motor vehicle accident .

I'm not exactly on the list either. . . back flip in a bounce house. I used to be a Varsity diver so I almost put it under that. Im not really sure where to cast my vote? A fall Iguess???

fell out of loft, ladder fell first ;)

I voted for a motorbike accident although I was off road racing at the time, so it could be classed as a sport injury? Fact is the bike stoped, sunk in a termite hill, and I didn't, well until my head hit the ground that is.

Cheers Ian

I fell (very badly) off my horse. I went for sports injury but as I am the least sporty person I know it doen't quite seem right, I never thought of horse riding as a sport, more of a recreation!! Maybe I should have gone with fall? Well, it seems that I'm in a minority anyway!

Trinity X

How did I get my SCI, a very boring (and slow) way!

To cut a very long story short, I had a rare Pulmonary Renal disorder diagnosed in 1991, and was treated with Chemotherapy and very high dosage steroids for about 18 months. The steroids caused Vertebral Osteonecrosis. Amongst other surgery, I had a fusion in 1999, and was just told in March that the fusion was not done properly, and it has now failed.

Left leg is 90% useless and right leg is about 70% okay, since Christmas have started to have bladder and bowel problems. Have appointment this Friday to see if anything can be done about the fusion.

Smudge

Fall - The ladder slipped out from under me while I was doing some home repairs.

Drove into a ditch and completly mangled my truck.

Did a good job on myself to.

I'd like to say a high speed motorbike accident, but embarrassingly I wasn't quite doing 30mph. I miss judged a corner and creeped closer and closer to the curb before my front wheel hit it. This jolted my handle bars flipping me off the bike and into the grass verge where I landed on my back. OUCH!!! The bike carried on for 10 metres without me and also came to a halt in the grass verge. Very minor damage to the bike consisting of a scuff to the top fairing, snapped indicator stalk and a slight bend to the clutch pedal.
I was just on my way home after fish and chips, which on impact resurfaced and decorated the inside of my helmet. Harry Ramsden Restaurants just don't quite appeal to me as much as they once did.
I had no other injuries other than to my L1 Vertebrae, not a scratch!

Sods Law.

I was a highly skilled assassin working for the CIA in a small third world country when I developed an abscess in a vein that crushed my spine.
e-dog

Now E stop exaggerating
Your abscess just squeezed your spinal chord a little it didn’t crush your spine
Chhers Ian

My husband was injured in a head on collision on his way to a 4th of July party. He was driving a little sports car, and he was hit by a Chevy Suburban. The kid who hit him was 15 yrs old, and he had taken his dad's car. He was drunk, and he went across the median and hit Jon. They had to cut Jon out of his car, but in one of the cars behind him was a trauma Dr and they were about a half mile to the turnoff for a major trauma center. That is probably what saved his life. He is a C-2 quad on a vent, but he has great spirit, and has made a wonderful life for us. We are also expecting our first child!

In the fall of 2007 I first encountered a MRSA infection in my pacemaker/wires/heart. I had surgery to remove the pacemaker and wires, was given antibiotics, and when thought to be clear of MRSA, had my pacer replaced. About 9 days later I had to have surgery to have the pin in my foot (placed because of a fracture), removed because it, too, had become infected with MRSA. More antibiotics, and two weeks later I was rushed to the hospital by ambulance with no feeling in my legs and numbness in my arms. The MRSA had destroyed T7 and T8. I had surgery to remove what was left, get rid of any infection, and place a cage on my spine. Later T5-T10 were fused. I am 46 years old, and was a pharmacy technician before all of this happened.

Sandy

Some guy named Jason Bourne was just here looking for you.

Yeah, but I really had 'em goin' for a minute there.

Good buddy of mine. We were gonna have lunch, did ya see which way he went?
By the way, now that you know who I am.........

A drunk driver crashed into my driver's side door when I was in an intersection.

AH, but MARIJUANA'S illegal. A heinous narcotic for hippies and other vermin.
Wouldn't be surprised if the driver was a polititian or a priest or what have you.
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My husband, Jack, was involved in a MVA on March 18, 2003. He was driving a loaded fuel oil truck, and a female driving a minivan crossed the center line & hit the truck, hard enough to rip one of the dual back tires off. As a result of the tire coming off, the truck went over onto the drivers side, skidded for about 50 feet, hit a tree stump, went airborne, and landed upside down in the ditch. He hung there for 45 minutes before being cut out of the seatbelt. And I guess I should mention that when they cut the seat belt, they dropped him, on his head.
At first, in the ER, he could lift his arms, but couldn't squeeze my hand. That was on Tuesday. He had two surgeries, one that night, one the next day, where they took bone pieces from his hip and put them in his neck, with metal plates. He was trached during the first surgery because he stopped breathing. On Friday, he was slowly losing the ability to raise his arms, and ended up back in surgery late that night. The swelling had gone above the level of injury, and he had a hematoma at C2, where a bone fragment had compromised the spinal cord. For several days after that, all he could was blink his eyes.
Compared to how he was after that last surgery, being able to talk now with the cuff deflated, and being able to eat, is a miracle!

Car accident.

Crossing the street with the right-a-way on my bike and a guy ran the red and hit me with his truck. With my friend behind me (he didn't get hit).

motorbike accident.....

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Regards

Simon

I had falled (prety nothing) at a gym. But it turned as T12 complete, it was 1995

MVA...Oct 07 2006 Fell asleep at the wheel, Broke L2 and cracked L1& L3 along with 8 broken ribs, right collapsed lung, left punctured Lung

i was 15 y/o back in sept 24,06 had a motorcycle wreck going about 30 lost control due to wet roads hit a tree. broke my c4 but became paralyzed from brakeing t9-t10 also severed my liver broke my rib witch stabbed my left lung shatter my pelvis and broke my wrist. and well thats about all i can think of.

My friend was shot twice, the second shot left him paralysed.