Most of these movies are about paraplegics that can use their hands; not a disability in my book………..how about more movies on true quads that can’t do anything but lay in bed and have other people drive them around in their wheelchairs (unless you have a ton of money for assistive aids that are a pain in the ___!) like head drives that hurt your neck muscles………
From: Robert Vogel [mailto:rhvsh...@me.com] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2017 1:20 PM To: Jim Lubin Cc: RONALD L PRACHT; Quad-list Post Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Great Quad movie "Waterdance" Jim and Jeffery, well said! I also agree. Ironically the tagline for the movie was “Live Boldly”—are you kidding me? Speaking of great Quad Movies, there is an amazing Must Read quad book that is a true story called: "Lucky Break: A Love Story” The true story of Kirk Kilgour, an Olympic Level Volleyball player, who became a C4 complete quad, no movement below his shoulder in his mid-20’s he was hired to coach the Italian Volleyball team—a huge sport in Italy—and played professionally. He was such an amazing person that—true story—after I finished a speech for the National Spinal Cord Injury Association he came up to me to chat, and at the same time a very attractive woman came up to talk with me as well. She offered to get us drinks and in typical male fashion I thought “man if I can ditch the quad I might have a chance with this woman”. As we got to talking I found his stories so amazing that by the time she got back with our drinks my thought had changed to, “ditch the woman, I want to hear more about this guy’s life” we became close friends. The book is about his life and is written by a woman that fell in love with him when he was in his early 40’s. She was beautiful, athletic, lived in Aspen and spent her days skiing, hiking, biking and met him by chance—she wanted to get good seats to watch events at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and he needed an attendant—it turns out a friend of a friend introduced them via phone, she flew out to LA to do a week-long-trial run to see if it would work. It didn’t, she said she couldn’t be his attendant because she had fallen in love with him—the feeling was mutual. The book describes their life, the highs and lows, world wide travel, Kirk meeting the Pope and the Pope asking Kirk for his autograph—true story. I’m hoping somebody grabs hold of the book and turns it into a move, it would be fantastic! The book is available at Amazon. Here is a review I wrote about it: https://permobilus.com/lucky-break-a-love-story/<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpermobilus.com%2Flucky-break-a-love-story%2F&data=02%7C01%7CGailO%40Pennwell.com%7Ceeaf31a01e434929217608d46a4e482b%7C5bbf75da8a3f493c8343e6cd0cb0e070%7C0%7C0%7C636250331832327486&sdata=ZoMlqwNrfYsHIUapODNeNlWg1TfQ5tjUshv4xm14W%2Fs%3D&reserved=0> Bob Vogel On Mar 13, 2017, at 12:37 PM, Jim Lubin <jlu...@eskimo.com<mailto:jlu...@eskimo.com>> wrote: I made a list on IMDB Movie's featuring Quadriplegics http://www.imdb.com/list/ls051082586/<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Flist%2Fls051082586%2F&data=02%7C01%7CGailO%40Pennwell.com%7Ceeaf31a01e434929217608d46a4e482b%7C5bbf75da8a3f493c8343e6cd0cb0e070%7C0%7C0%7C636250331832327486&sdata=IGnzqvb%2FFaiWA17wRVkqridwsUY5stdpgQv3IwKx0yo%3D&reserved=0> On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 10:32 AM, RONALD L PRACHT <r.pra...@sbcglobal.net<mailto:r.pra...@sbcglobal.net>> wrote: I watch a lot of tv but never came across this movie until I was on youtube last night. Its about three guys that get paralyzed and their stuggles to deal with it. Has Helen Hunt, Wesley snipes and others in the 1992 flick Waterdance. Pretty realistic for a movie. 1992 The Waterdance<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DhxpfNpjI1tw%26t%3D5124s&data=02%7C01%7CGailO%40Pennwell.com%7Ceeaf31a01e434929217608d46a4e482b%7C5bbf75da8a3f493c8343e6cd0cb0e070%7C0%7C0%7C636250331832327486&sdata=tfyckDN3bM331uKC6GGfnYUwXma0fx5U8KDVAGpv8I4%3D&reserved=0> Ron [https://s.yimg.com/nq/storm/assets/enhancrV2/23/logos/youtube.png] 1992 The Waterdance The Waterdance 1992 Movie
