And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I've got a former work colleague who was left as a quadriplegic after rolling his car in an accident. I visited him a couple of times while he was in the rehab hospital. The simplest part of your everyday life--learning to get his body out of bed, for instance--required an incredible amount of work.
On one of my visits, I met a 20-something guy who was a new paraplegic. He'd gone over his handlebars while out on his mountain bike. He was learning how to pull his pants onto the dead weights that were his legs, how to get into and out of his chair, on and off the toilet, etc. But part of his new life as a paraplegic was that he was coming to understand that he had had the last erection of his life. These rehab hospitals are about learning how to physically manage your life with your injury, as much as emotionally managing your new life. Depression is a real part of it too.
I see the appeal of these adrenaline-sports. But you're getting that adrenaline-high from overcoming something dangerous. Sometimes that danger wins.
NFW!!!
ReplyDeleteNo and neither are all those ‘exposure’ idiots posted here!
ReplyDeleteI've got a former work colleague who was left as a quadriplegic after rolling his car in an accident. I visited him a couple of times while he was in the rehab hospital. The simplest part of your everyday life--learning to get his body out of bed, for instance--required an incredible amount of work.
ReplyDeleteOn one of my visits, I met a 20-something guy who was a new paraplegic. He'd gone over his handlebars while out on his mountain bike. He was learning how to pull his pants onto the dead weights that were his legs, how to get into and out of his chair, on and off the toilet, etc. But part of his new life as a paraplegic was that he was coming to understand that he had had the last erection of his life. These rehab hospitals are about learning how to physically manage your life with your injury, as much as emotionally managing your new life. Depression is a real part of it too.
I see the appeal of these adrenaline-sports. But you're getting that adrenaline-high from overcoming something dangerous. Sometimes that danger wins.
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