John Roderick
THE WALKING QUAD
"NEVER CONFUSE A SINGLE DEFEAT WITH A FINAL DEFEAT."
-Scott Fitzgerald-
"THERE IS NOTHING THAT COULD HAVE
PREPARED ME FOR WHAT I WAS ABOUT TO FACE!"
THE STORY
ON SEPTEMBER 5th 2009, I BECAME A QUADRIPLEGIC.
One second I was on a mountain bike and the next, I was on the ground, completely paralyzed from the neck down. I couldn't move a single muscle. I knew then, my life had changed forever!
I was rushed in an air-medic helicopter to the nearest emergency hospital in London. After 4 long days of being stuck in the over saturated and under staffed London Royal Hospital, with no answers and still no movement, I was miraculously given a green light to be taken to one of the best spinal injury hospitals in the UK, Stoke Mandeville Hospital.
MENTOR-SPEAKER
It was there that my spirit 'walked' through some of the darkest hallways of life. I know now, this walk was given to me so I could enter into some of the brightest rooms of HOPE!
