Alaska 2008: The Dalton Highway Write-Up (Long)

Awesome story, such a terrible thing to happen to someone so young and
vibrant.

If anyone can take the time, the link to the paralysis site:
http://tinyurl.com/6n7bah

has some more discussion with Mike as he deals with his injury.

I worked with disabled skiers at Alpine Meadows Ski Resort back in the
mid 1980's, it takes all kinds, never discount the human potential, he
has a high level of function remaining so he should do well in his
rehab.

Good luck Mike, heal good and strong!


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Nurse Ben
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This is awful news and our thoughts are with Mike.
I'm not particularly knowledgeable on this kind of thing, but is the
injury permanent or is there a chance of recovery?


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Into the blue

Harper wrote:
I wuld get a 20' trialls uni prolly with a blu tiar.
Get splined an a KH saet or ur a pansy.
Get trials cuz thaz whut i du n u mus wannaa whut i du 2.
lol...awwsum.
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Into the blue wrote:
This is awful news and our thoughts are with Mike.
I'm not particularly knowledgeable on this kind of thing, but is the
injury permanent or is there a chance of recovery?


From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal_cord_injury:




The exact effects of a spinal cord injury vary according to the type
and level injury, and can be organized into two types:

- In a -complete injury-, there is no function below the
"neurological" level, defined as the lowest level that has intact
neurological function. If a person has some level below which there
is no motor and sensory function, the injury is said to be
"complete". Recent evidence suggest that less than 5% of people
with "complete" spinal cord injury recover locomotion.
- A person with an -incomplete injury- retains some sensation or
movement below the level of the injury.[...]Recent evidence suggest
that over 95% of people with "incomplete" spinal cord injury recover
some locomotory ability.



The article also has a helplful diagram to complement the text. I
should note that at the time of this post the above text has no direct
citations in the article, but I did find some of the statements
corroborated he http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic553.htm.


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Shut up and ride.
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