Maybe I'm just more cognizant of these stories now, but it seems like more and more people are being featured in the news after becoming paralyzed. There's the Southern Mississippi football player recently shot and paralyzed from the waist down, returning to the field to watch a home game from the sidelines. There's former NBA star Rodney Rogers falling off his ATV and breaking his neck. It's hard enough to move around a 6'2'' body; I can't imagine the struggles he has with a 6'10'', 270 lb. frame.
There's usually a flipside to these stories that at first glance seem nothing but tragic. Sometimes from the crevasse of despair come the most inspiring, heartwarming instances of determination and redemption. The Rutgers player injured in a game last month graduated from his ventilator, and had his injury reclassified as incomplete, meaning he has at least some feeling beneath his level of injury. The Jacksonville Jaguar offensive lineman paralyzed in a shooting in 2008 just got married, and stood up for the entire 45 minute ceremony.
As Thanksgiving approaches, tales of immense courage like these remind us what to really be thankful for - family, friends, health, and a life you've still got and is still worth living.
And now, some funny videos to lead us into a delicious holiday...
Michigan's D-Coordinator rubbing the starting middle linebacker's face with a stuffed animal. I have no words...
How romantic.
Wow. A short Asian man Whitney.
Darwin award nominee?
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