Posted in Patient Stories, spinal cord injury on Feb 11th, 2012
After suffering a spinal cord injury from a snowmobile accident, Dan Bolhouse closed the door to negativity. Dan had been snowmobiling since he was a child. While on a trip with his buddies in 1999, he took an unexpected sharp turn too fast and crashed straight into a tree. He devastatingly injured the T7 vertebrae [...]
Posted in Multiple Trauma, spinal cord injury on Feb 2nd, 2012
by Coertney Vanderhill My sisters and I walked into the hospital room just after four in the morning. My mom lay still and flat with tubes coming out of her chest, draining blood from her lungs into bags that were hung around her hospital bed. Despite all the serious injuries my mom sustained, I most [...]
Posted in Adaptive Sports, spinal cord injury on Jan 23rd, 2012
by Beth Redford After a few days, I have recovered from playing in the recent Grand Rapids Wheelchair Sports Association (GRWSA) Tennis Fundraising Tournament at Ramblewood in Grand Rapids. The weekend started with picking up three cases of tennis balls for tournament director and wheelchair tennis head coach, Lynn Bender, and delivering them to Ramblewood. [...]
Posted in Patient Stories, spinal cord injury, Water Therapy on Jan 13th, 2012
by Coertney Vanderhill Blog manager’s note: While the blog post below about Matthew Sexton gives an overview of his accident and rehabilitation, I recommend you head straight to Matthew’s personal blog for a candid and poignant accounting of his accident and recovery. Matthew Sexton was riding his motorcycle on his way to work early one [...]
Posted in Brain Injury, spinal cord injury, TBI, Traumatic Brain Injury on Jan 7th, 2012
It was the click she didn’t hear that turned Tammy Helton’s life upside down. Last July 9, Tammy hopped into her Jeep to head to the home in Twin Lakes that she shared with her husband, Mike, and the youngest of their three children. The music was cranked, and Tammy doesn’t remember hearing the click [...]
Posted in Patient Stories, spinal cord injury on Nov 17th, 2011
by Chris Lewis As a Michigan native, Geoff Newmyer, along with a majority of his friends and family members, has been actively hunting since he was a child. “My dad and uncles were avid hunters,” Geoff said. “As I grew up, I always looked forward to hunting with my dad.” Geoff has been hunting on [...]
Posted in Aquatic Therapy, spinal cord injury, Water Therapy on Nov 12th, 2011
by Amanda Larsen A small business man in Kalamazoo for 34 years, Jeff Block, ended a long day of work on a rainy July evening with the routine job of emptying his truck bed of the day’s debris. Jeff heaved the trash into the dumpster and slipped. He lost his footing and fell off the [...]
Posted in Patient Stories, spinal cord injury on Oct 6th, 2011
by Chris Lewis For as long as he can remember, Gale Lynch has been passionate about the outdoors – and hunting. At the age of eight he began to accompany his father during fall and winter deer hunts, as the two regularly searched for trophy bucks. He soon found himself shooting at tin cans with [...]
Posted in Multiple Trauma, spinal cord injury on Jul 25th, 2011
79-year-old Roger Valentine wasn’t expected to live after a serious motorcycle accident. Roger suffered multiple traumas, ranging from a broken pelvis to a fractured spine. Three months after his phyisical rehabilitation began, Roger is back on his feet – and helping those around him.
Posted in Adaptive Sports, spinal cord injury on May 26th, 2011
by Linda Truong, Mary Free Bed writer “Once something like this happens to you, you don’t know what to do or what’s going to happen to you,” said Pat Besta, referring to the spinal cord injury he sustained in a car accident. Twenty years ago, after his vehicle landed in a ditch, Pat suffered artery damage [...]
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