{"id":4091,"date":"2011-09-12T08:55:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T13:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/?p=4091"},"modified":"2011-09-12T10:41:08","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T15:41:08","slug":"paralyzed-12-years-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/2011\/paralyzed-12-years-today\/","title":{"rendered":"paralyzed 12 years today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/2011\/paralyzed-12-years-today\/oneweek\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4096\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4096\" title=\"oneweek\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/oneweek-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/oneweek-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/oneweek-100x100.jpg 100w, http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/oneweek.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This evening, I will be paralyzed for 12 years. I won&#8217;t say I LIKE being paralyzed, clearly it&#8217;s not a walk in the park, but I will say that despite the complications I have an amazing life. I have a life that I would not trade for anything, even walking.<\/p>\n<p>I want everyone to remember that life is truly what you make of it. I could be miserable and feel sorry for myself, but why?<\/p>\n<p>I want to say THANK YOU to all my family and my friends and most importantly to my husband, Charlie, and my darling little boys.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t, however, forget to mention my BFF Sarah. She was with me that night. I love you Sarah, and I can&#8217;t wait to meet your newest little man.<\/p>\n<p>Edited to add:<\/p>\n<p>I guess I shouldn&#8217;t forget all the doctors, nurses and staff at UTMB in Galveston and the staff at Warm Springs.<\/p>\n<p>I very clearly remember, MIKE, my ICU nurse. I&#8217;m not sure how I remember him since I was so out of it, but I do.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Fuffoletto, the ortho surgeon that performed most of my surgery. If I recall it was over 10 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Nurse Stephanie, when I went to the Children&#8217;s Hospital to start my surgery.<\/p>\n<p>My therapists. Han, Sherrill, and Amy for sure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening, I will be paralyzed for 12 years. I won&#8217;t say I LIKE being paralyzed, clearly it&#8217;s not a walk in the park, but I will say that despite the complications I have an amazing life. I have a life that I would not trade for anything, even walking. I want everyone to remember [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wheelchair-stuff","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5zEve-13Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wheelchairmommy.com\/closed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}