On May 17, 1989, I suddenly, within minutes, went from a sharp pain in my shoulder to becoming paralyzed from the neck down and dependent on a ventilator to breathe due to acute idiopathic transverse myelitis. My condition has not changed but I am otherwise in good health and grateful for every day I am alive.
- [QUAD-L] Celebrating Life 31 years after Transverse Myelitis! Jim Lubin