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I have been reading this site for the last couple of months, and felt it was about time I introduce myself! I am C5/6 complete, done playing rugby, when I was 16 years old. I am now 31, and approaching the age when I will have spent longer in a wheelchair than not.
in that time, I have travelled the world, got drunk, driven my car, got tattooed, hurt myself, not had sex, read a lot, love music, been really really angry, done drugs, tried to hide from God, embraced Him, I am really really lucky, but....and there it is! The but that happened when I was 16 and changed everything. The reality is not going to change. So all that is left is for me to choose to change the way I look at it.
it is only now, as I approach this personal mental marker, with long years of work with a counsellor, a personal faith and a great family, that I feel I am anywhere near the place of acceptance that I need to be!
I have not had much contact with other quadriplegics as a result, no doubt, of the previous issues about acceptance! However I have been greatly moved both to laughter and tears being able to share in other people stories. This has helped me in my journey to understand that my experience may be able to help others and among the many little things one has to hang onto, maybe this can be one of them.
anyway, just a little introduction, and I hope to be a more regular contributor from now on, bearing in mind that I am incorrigibly lazy!
I apologise if this is all a bit garbled but I trust you understand what I'm trying to say!
Mark.
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