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Competes in paddleboard championship while living with paralysis
Posted by
JLoThursday, July 29, 2010
Living with paralysis, Mark Matheson (pictured) recently crossed the Molokai Channel in Hawaii.
A paraplegic … Fifteen years ago, Mark Matheson's life was changed forever. As he notes on the Easter Seals Hawaii website, "I remember laying flat on my back, in excruciating pain, unable to move and from the look on the faces of my friends and the firemen who came to my aid, I knew I was in big trouble." He had fallen four stories, from the balcony of a hotel in Kauai. The fall crushed his back and left him paralyzed from the chest down.
Read the rest of Mark's story here.
And speaking of water sports, don't forget to check out Life Rolls On, a subsidiary of the Reeve Foundation. They have events all over the U.S. that get people living with a spinal cord injury back into the water!
Janelle
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