Rip Superman you fought a good fight and made your mark.
If not for pure luck I would have spent the last 22 years in a puff and suck wheel chair with tongue turn like Christopher Reeves
I broke my neck in the same place, my break was much worse than his, shattered the fourth vertebrae and split the fifth vertebrae in half.
The Doctors had to remove six pieces of the shattered vertebrae that were embedded in my spinal cord.Damaged spinal cord nerves regenerate at the rate of an inch a month
It took over four years for me to feel the sand between my toes and to fully assess what wasn't coming back.
I spent five and a half months in the hospital checked myself out against doctors orders spent four months trying to function outside the hospital with a paralyzed left side, no feelings from my tits down and my five year old son as my nurse
Checked myself back in to the hospital for another four months of physical therapy and again checked myself out against doctors orders.
Rented an apartment for my son and myself four blocks from Venice Beach and my physical therapy became chasing a kid on a boogie board, digging holes and walking in the sand.
The leg brace eventually went and I got my left arm back missing a few muscles, still have patches all over my right side with no feeling but no biggie when you consider what might have been.
Stem cells can and will help many people in the same boat I was in if the research is allowed to go forward.
As a side note I haven't felt the right cheek of my ass or the right side of my dick in over twenty years and I can tell ya size doesn't make a lick of difference to a man
