These are words of 22-year-old, Tim Butterworth. Now active in rowing, photography, and a prospective neuroscience student, Butterworth lives by this belief. Even after a spinal cord injury in 2007 at the age of 18 from a diving accident, Butterworth wouldn't surrender to anything less than a fulfilling life.
Butterworth experienced a C4, C6 spinal fusion surgery with an iliac graft (hip bone was used to help stabilize the vertebra) and a titanium rod followed by many months of rehabilitation at Spalding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston. Also, as a Reeve Foundation NeuroRecovery Network participant at Boston Medical Center, Butterworth knows the definition of hard work. Read Tim's story and see how far he has come.
