Quadriplegic & Paraplegic Spinal Cord Injuries: How Long Have You Had A Spinal Cord Injury? - Quadriplegic & Paraplegic Spinal Cord Injuries

Jump to content

  • 4 Pages +
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • You cannot start a new topic
  • You cannot reply to this topic

How Long Have You Had A Spinal Cord Injury? Rate Topic: -----

Poll: How long have you had a Spinal Cord Injury? (312 member(s) have cast votes)

How long have you had a Spinal Cord Injury?

  1. 0 - 12 Months (48 votes [15.29%])

    Percentage of vote: 15.29%

  2. 1 - 3 Years (76 votes [24.20%])

    Percentage of vote: 24.20%

  3. 3 - 5 Years (28 votes [8.92%])

    Percentage of vote: 8.92%

  4. 5 - 10 Years (43 votes [13.69%])

    Percentage of vote: 13.69%

  5. 10 - 15 Years (20 votes [6.37%])

    Percentage of vote: 6.37%

  6. 15 - 20 Years (23 votes [7.32%])

    Percentage of vote: 7.32%

  7. 20 - 30 Years (60 votes [19.11%])

    Percentage of vote: 19.11%

  8. 30 - 40 Years (11 votes [3.50%])

    Percentage of vote: 3.50%

  9. 40 - 50 Years (3 votes [0.96%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.96%

  10. 50 - 60 Years (2 votes [0.64%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.64%

How old were you when you had your accident?

  1. 0 - 5 Years Old (4 votes [1.91%])

    Percentage of vote: 1.91%

  2. 5 - 10 Years Old (7 votes [3.35%])

    Percentage of vote: 3.35%

  3. 10 - 15 Years Old (19 votes [9.09%])

    Percentage of vote: 9.09%

  4. 15 - 20 Years Old (49 votes [23.44%])

    Percentage of vote: 23.44%

  5. 20 - 25 Years Old (44 votes [21.05%])

    Percentage of vote: 21.05%

  6. 25 - 30 Years Old (17 votes [8.13%])

    Percentage of vote: 8.13%

  7. 30 - 40 Years Old (33 votes [15.79%])

    Percentage of vote: 15.79%

  8. 40 - 50 Years Old (23 votes [11.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 11.00%

  9. 50 - 60 Years Old (12 votes [5.74%])

    Percentage of vote: 5.74%

  10. 60 + Years Old (1 votes [0.48%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.48%

Vote Guests cannot vote

#51 User is offline   blckchns 

  • Newbie
  • Pip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 97
  • Joined: 07-June 06
  • Gender:Male
  • Country:Leesburg, Virginia
  • Spinal Injury Level / Relationship:T3 Complete

Posted 09 July 2006 - 02:14 AM

Motorcycle accident in Nov 2005. T3 complete
0

#52 User is offline   4estGimp 

  • Newbie
  • Pip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 48
  • Joined: 08-July 06
  • Gender:Male
  • Spinal Injury Level / Relationship:T5-T6 incomplete

Posted 09 July 2006 - 02:53 AM

I was 16 years old and riding my motorcycle at about 11PM. A 14 year old in a full sized pickup was stealing watermelons. He had his headlights out and ran a stop sign. I T'ed into the truck at 60mph. The sick irony? The truck was a Dodge. T5-T6 were crushed 20-30% and my spinal cord was "pulped" as the Dr. put it. Somehow I've been getting very slow regeneration over the past 21 years.

This post has been edited by 4estGimp: 09 July 2006 - 06:05 PM

0

#53 User is offline   dirt flirt 

  • Newbie
  • Pip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 9
  • Joined: 11-July 06
  • Country: San Diego, Ca
  • Spinal Injury Level / Relationship:T6,7,8, Complete, Para

Posted 11 July 2006 - 08:59 PM

On August 11th, 2005 I went over the bars of my dirtbike, then the bike went over me. I'm a T6,7,8 complete para. Been back to the desert to party, haven't gotten back on a bike yet.
0

#54 User is offline   jakhep 

  • Newbie
  • Pip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 108
  • Joined: 28-May 07
  • Country:Scotland
  • Spinal Injury Level / Relationship:T10 Complete

Posted 27 July 2007 - 12:35 PM

Mine was a car crash on April 3rd 1966, apparently i was thrown at least 80 feet from the car and landed on my bum, i have no recollection of flying through the air ( Just as well) i guess i was lucky to survive ,back was broken with a complete lesion at T10, luckily had no other injuries except a dislocated hip.
0

#55 User is offline   wheeliebear75 

  • Advanced Member
  • PipPipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 2,655
  • Joined: 08-November 06
  • Gender:Not Telling
  • Country:San Diego California
  • Spinal Injury Level / Relationship:L2 incomplete 4/28/1990

Posted 27 July 2007 - 07:33 PM

Wrong place wrong time @ 14yrs old (I posted my story). It's been 17yrs post accident for me. A sign fell hit me in the head but caused compression fracture L2 (the entire spine was pushed but only @ L2 was the break) and of course the impact cracked my skull and gave me a minor to moderate brain injury (yippy skippy :boxing: ).
*Enjoy every sunset, but be grateful for every dawn.*
*Wheelchairs are made of a special ocular magnetic alloy......they're "eyeball magnets".*
*I USE a wheelchair, that does NOT make ME a wheelchair!*
0

#56 User is offline   edlee 

  • Advanced Member
  • PipPipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 3,728
  • Joined: 17-March 07
  • Gender:Male
  • Country:South Western Pa
  • Spinal Injury Level / Relationship:t-10 complete

Posted 27 July 2007 - 08:46 PM

2004, November 18 ( my 58th birthday)

Climbed iron for thirty-four years without a problem. Fell while climbing a painter's schalfold.

Life's a bit funny, huh?
ed
0

#57 User is offline   mybrat 

  • Newbie
  • Pip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 19
  • Joined: 18-July 07
  • Country:Tenn, US
  • Spinal Injury Level / Relationship:L3-L4 incomplete

Posted 27 July 2007 - 11:51 PM

Gunshot wound to the back, L3-L4/incomplete. Happened 9 months ago. How time flies.
0

#58 User is offline   JD old No7 

  • Lurker
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 1
  • Joined: 28-July 07
  • Spinal Injury Level / Relationship:C5-C6 incomplete Asia C

Posted 28 July 2007 - 10:12 AM

Hi all.

Car accident 20 months ago when I was 31. My car rolled and rolled, then hit some fences and rolled and rolled - and what else.???? oh yeah, it rolled and rolled and landed in front of some poor old mans front door. :boxing:

Ended up C5 - C6 incomplete, Brown Sequard - Asia C
Brown Sequard
0

#59 User is offline   Deej 

  • Member
  • PipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 592
  • Joined: 18-November 06
  • Country:UK
  • Spinal Injury Level / Relationship:T2 complete

Posted 28 July 2007 - 07:18 PM

Motorbike accident 1994 - T2 complete.

S**t happens!
Deej

"non legitimus carborundum"
0

#60 User is offline   cdngrl 

  • Member
  • PipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 170
  • Joined: 16-September 06
  • Gender:Female
  • Country:ontario
  • Spinal Injury Level / Relationship:C5

Posted 28 July 2007 - 09:00 PM

C5 Diving accident... got to drown... the part I do remember
Life is one long insane trip. Some people just have better directions.
Keepin' it wheel
0

#61 User is offline   crash.ca 

  • Newbie
  • Pip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 29
  • Joined: 29-December 06
  • Gender:Female
  • Country:Manitoba, Canada
  • Spinal Injury Level / Relationship:T-12 complete

Posted 28 July 2007 - 10:50 PM

I was in a multi-vehicle collision on the highway (one vehicle being a tandem tankard truck!...who was at fault), 4 years ago this August 14.
0

#62 User is offline   Survivor35 

  • Member
  • PipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 288
  • Joined: 15-July 06
  • Gender:Female
  • Country:the middle of nowhere, on the eastern shore of maryland, USA
  • Spinal Injury Level / Relationship:t-6 paraplegic incomplete

Posted 28 July 2007 - 11:48 PM

Single vehicle MVA, as the passenger, driver (who was a friend) didn't make it.. 1.5 years ago... some days it seems like its been forever, others seem like it wasn't that long ago.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows that you are actually scared to death"Chrissy
T-6 incomplete para
0

#63 User is offline   Jodie Lynn 

  • Newbie
  • Pip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 123
  • Joined: 30-March 06
  • Country:Van Buren Missouri
  • Spinal Injury Level / Relationship:T-7 incomplete

Posted 29 July 2007 - 01:52 AM

Single MVA accident 2 yrs and 3 months ago...... Rear axle went out send my daughter and i over forty foot revene, Thank God she was Fine, me T-7 incomplete.. recovery more and more each day....... :boxing:
Hi all I am a T-7 incomplete, broke my left femur twice now I have steel in me, my right knee was broke, all the ribs on my right side,punctured lung, and am trying hard to recover....Jodie
0

#64 User is offline   Stargirl1987 

  • Newbie
  • Pip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 5
  • Joined: 22-April 07
  • Spinal Injury Level / Relationship:C3/4 Complete

Posted 29 July 2007 - 02:33 AM

May 2006, Classic drunk teenage diving accident, C3/4 complete. I don't have any movement or feeling from the top of my shoulders down, but I am FINALLY off the vent during the day. :boxing:
0

#65 User is offline   Bulky 

  • Member
  • PipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 172
  • Joined: 09-February 06
  • Gender:Male
  • Country:Melbourne, Australia
  • Spinal Injury Level / Relationship:C5 Incomplete

Posted 29 July 2007 - 06:58 AM

A one of/combination of Devic's Disease-Transverse Myelitis-Multiple Sclerosis......take your pick, the Docs didn't know, my neuro still not a 10% on diagnosis! Anniversary is 11 Aug 04....nearly three years!
Bulky

"Never Quit" - Dan 'Rudy' Ruettiger
0

#66 User is offline   juls 

  • Member
  • PipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 1,029
  • Joined: 22-July 06
  • Gender:Female
  • Country:Perth, Australia
  • Spinal Injury Level / Relationship:c6/c7 incomplete

Posted 29 July 2007 - 11:34 AM

It's been 8 yrs and 5 months now..sounds so long but doesn't feel it.
MVA, I was the driver..my bf wasn't hurt, thank god :yahoo:
0

#67 User is offline   oldwheelz 

  • Newbie
  • Pip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 97
  • Joined: 22-April 07
  • Country:Manitoba Canada
  • Spinal Injury Level / Relationship:t10 complete

Posted 30 July 2007 - 12:47 AM

Will be four years on the 2nd of August , Single MVA of which I have no memory thank God
0

#68 User is offline   FROG 

  • Member
  • PipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 487
  • Joined: 13-June 06
  • Gender:Male
  • Country:Southern California
  • Spinal Injury Level / Relationship:T10 complete

Posted 30 July 2007 - 05:47 AM

I had a nasty fall on Oct 29, 2002. t10 complete. Coming up on 5 years soon. My, how time flies!!
F.R.O.G. (Fully Reliant On God)
0

#69 User is offline   nomis 

  • Advanced Member
  • PipPipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 2,691
  • Joined: 05-June 07
  • Gender:Male
  • Country:New Zealand
  • Spinal Injury Level / Relationship:Para T4

Posted 30 July 2007 - 12:40 PM

Motorcycle Feb 1970.
Not an accident but an incident - drunk, showing off, excited, stupid.
Stephen Hawking, physicist, cosmologist and something of a dreamer:
Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free.
0

#70 User is offline   Trout 

  • Newbie
  • Pip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 19
  • Joined: 04-March 07
  • Spinal Injury Level / Relationship:T7 Complete

Posted 30 July 2007 - 03:53 PM

Motor vehicle accident.
1991 (16 years post).
I was 27 years old.
0

#71 User is offline   RaginTurtleHead 

  • Newbie
  • Pip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 119
  • Joined: 25-January 07
  • Gender:Male
  • Country:Temecula California
  • Spinal Injury Level / Relationship:L-1 Incomplete

Posted 30 July 2007 - 05:01 PM

View PostFROG, on Jul 29 2007, 10:47 PM, said:

I had a nasty fall on Oct 29, 2002. t10 complete. Coming up on 5 years soon. My, how time flies!!


October 29th 2006 here, Motorcycle accident out in the desert. L-1 incomplete
“Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have - so spend it wisely”
0

#72 User is offline   Jaret 

  • Newbie
  • Pip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 7
  • Joined: 09-July 07
  • Spinal Injury Level / Relationship:T 11-12

Posted 31 July 2007 - 01:18 AM

I have been a para for almost 17 years. My level is T11-12 as a result from a fall while sleepwalking.
0

#73 User is offline   Angela250153 

  • Newbie
  • Pip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 147
  • Joined: 03-May 07
  • Gender:Female
  • Country:London/UK
  • Spinal Injury Level / Relationship:T10-T11 Incomplete

Posted 31 July 2007 - 09:34 AM

Multiple of falls over a lifetime. Discovered 1 year ago that the disc between T10-T11 was squashing my spinal cord. Kept loosing my balance to point where I could barely walk. After Laminectomy can now walk a short distance on crutches.
0

#74 User is offline   Rollin on 24s 

  • Lurker
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 3
  • Joined: 03-August 07
  • Gender:Female
  • Country:Brisbane, Australia
  • Spinal Injury Level / Relationship:T-6

Posted 03 August 2007 - 12:08 PM

Coming up on a year later this month.. t-6 at 20 yrs old after a mountain bike crash
0

#75 User is offline   itsjustme 

  • Member
  • PipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 353
  • Joined: 14-March 06
  • Gender:Female
  • Country:USA/Indiana
  • Spinal Injury Level / Relationship:T2 incomplete

Posted 04 August 2007 - 12:19 AM

Apparently I was lucky enough to walk around with a malformation of blood vessels on my spine at the T2 level for 53 years before it decided to engorge with blood and due to the compression, paralyze me just a little over 3 years ago.
*Things won't always be the way that they are today.

**Life is indescriminate in it's suffering.

***"Worry looks around, sorry looks back, faith looks up."
0

#76 User is offline   rommel25 

  • Lurker
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 3
  • Joined: 16-May 07
  • Country:Wyoming ,USA
  • Spinal Injury Level / Relationship:C5-C6 Complete since '93

Posted 05 August 2007 - 10:09 PM

1993 age 20 ,was a passenger in a car wreck c5/c6 complete.... 14 long years

This post has been edited by rommel25: 05 August 2007 - 10:09 PM

0

#77 User is offline   icarus_melt76 

  • Newbie
  • Pip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 136
  • Joined: 01-September 06
  • Country:Toronto, Canada
  • Spinal Injury Level / Relationship:C5/7 Complete

Posted 08 August 2007 - 07:50 PM

(leap-year) Feb 29/76. Bad day for Hang Gliding. 31.5 yrs (or almost 8).

C 5/7 Only feels like occurred along with the 'Big Bang'!
Can lead a horse to water but hard as hell teachin' him the breast stroke!
0

#78 User is offline   milosh 

  • Member
  • PipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 665
  • Joined: 11-June 06
  • Country:london, UK
  • Spinal Injury Level / Relationship:quadriplegic - incomplete

Posted 08 August 2007 - 08:02 PM

doctor's mistake, C5 incomplete, july 4th, 21 years ago, was 5.
0

#79 User is offline   charol9095 

  • Newbie
  • Pip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 21
  • Joined: 12-January 07
  • Spinal Injury Level / Relationship:T10

Posted 08 August 2007 - 08:28 PM

You know, it seems like yesterday. I can't believe 27 years have went by........WOW!
Carol
0

#80 User is offline   Cheshire 

  • Member
  • PipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 175
  • Joined: 07-July 07
  • Country:Asheville, NC USA
  • Spinal Injury Level / Relationship:L5 incomplete

Posted 08 August 2007 - 09:07 PM

sacrum, lower L fused (still learning which vertebrae are which)
5 October 2006, was riding my bicycle home from the movie "Open Season" (haha). Hit-and-run at roughly 60mph from behind...I was lit up like christmas with flashing lights, reflectors, the works.

Will be a year in a couple of months....
0

Share this topic:


  • 4 Pages +
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • You cannot start a new topic
  • You cannot reply to this topic

1 User(s) are reading this topic
0 members, 1 guests, 0 anonymous users