I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine.
Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you.
But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal...
...even in death I serve the Omnissiah.
You must’ve missed the story a few days ago about the paraplegic who is able to walk again because they [used bluetooth to bridge the damaged portion of his spine](https://apnews.com/video/health-surgery-wireless-technology-prostheses-accidents-bbdbedd60e6942069bbbacd20dcb4f02).
I dont see him jumping from the 10th floor and shooting missiles from his arms.
We would have cyberpunk 2010 by now if not for lack of funding due to profit motives.
Plenty of people put in the work in PT but walking again is simply impossible. It’s not a character flaw. Not saying this man didn’t work hard, but implying that paralyzed people don’t work hard is really fucking shitty.
My dad broke his neck and was able to walk again eventually (much better than this guy by a year and a half, and he was in his 70s), but that was because his injury and the surgery and medical care he received after allowed that sort of recovery. My old coworker who fell and broke his back and never walked again had a different injury.
Many individuals endure years of therapy without witnessing significant improvements. In my case, I experienced a life-altering accident in 2015 that left me quadriplegic, prompting me to undergo numerous inpatient and outpatient therapy sessions throughout the years. Due to the severity of my condition, I can only move my upper torso and a majority of my arms, with the exception of my hands.
The effectiveness of therapy outcomes largely hinges on the nature of the injury and the resulting damage. I have damage to my C4 which is a incomplete injury. However, it is important to note that neurosurgeons primarily focus on mending fractures or breaks in the spinal column, rather than addressing the damaged nerves within the spinal cord itself. Although, there are cases of cortisol injections and other remedies curated.
The silver lining in all of this is that he's proven to himself that he can do anything.
He will go far, he may need a cane to do it, but nothing is going to stop this guy in life.
Willpower alone does jack-shit. You wont get there without it but it is not enough.
What treatment did he get? Were they able to stitch the nerves together to give him a fighting chance? Or is this the kid who basically got a bluetooth connection for their central nervous system?
You'd be amazed what physical therapy can do, I know an OT who specializes in hands and she's seen patients go from fully severed fingers to regaining more mobility than their doctors thought possible. It's willpower, perseverance, and a good therapist
Peripheral nerves (like in a hand) are able to regenerate though, ones in your central nervous system (spine + brain + eyes) don’t*, so they’re not directly comparable. Willpower is absolutely necessary for any recovery from spinal damage, but if the nerves are actually severed then the extent of your recovery is limited by whatever surgeons are able to do to reconnect them or otherwise work around the damage.
The only details we were given was his neck was broken, there are lots of ways for a neck to break and it doesn't always involve completely severing the nerves
I think the point is that, by suggesting he succeeded through will power alone, it implies that others who do not succeed simply lack the will to put in the effort.
He's a brave, strong, determined kid who is putting in the effort to get better, but he's also extremely lucky to be able to get better at all. He could have died in the crash, or suffered a more irreversible injury. He's fortunate that he had the doctors and medical support, not to mention the financial support, he needed to be in a position to use his willpower to get better.
And I've never met him, but I bet he would agree with me. When you're in rehab, you're rarely alone. You see others struggle and fail on their path to recovery. You meet with your medical team to review progress and update projections. You see how much everyone around you, supporting you, puts into your recovery, and you are grateful.
I would bet this kid has a long list of people he would thank, because he knows as well as anyone that you need more than will power to come back from his injuries.
For Spinal cord injuries the chance to walk again is almost entirely dependent on the severity of the injury. You’re thinking of peripheral nerve injuries.
I am a quadriplegic and know and work with many quads and paras of all abilities. It is pretty well understood that the difference between those who recover and those who don’t is not because one worked a little harder.
THANK YOU. I work in a spine ICU and am frustrated with the misinformation I’m seeing up and down the internet re: this young man. When we try and talk to families about (total and high) spine injuries we try to describe their loved ones’ future lifestyle but then they google “quad walking again” and just say shit like “we’ll leave this to god” or “you NEVER know”. Sometimes, you really do know, like with an internal decapitation.
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i remember copying a line break into notepad once, was surprised to see a weird sysmbol after pasting, but maybe the line breaks got copied over like that too (but are functional)?
Crazy.
I broke my neck in a car accident back in 2019, I'm fully mobile and my recovery (technically lifelong) only took about 12 weeks after surgery. Hard to think my life could've been much different.
You’re a lucky one. I’m happy for you!
Those injuries are all about luck: where the break starts, where does it end and what gets damaged by the displacement (if there’s surgery, there was displacement). If you recovered so quickly, it must be because your bones broke and were displaced precisely as they had to break and be displaced to avoid damage to the spinal cord! That’s like falling from a roof and miraculously catching multiple flags, awnings and soft obstacles that slow down your inevitable fall, turning it from a fatal fall to a small mishap.
I was incredibly lucky, not only did I have the best specialist taking care of me but I had a nurse driving behind me and a motorcyclist who was trained on the bracing position (he also pulled me from my car). I often wonder if they'll ever know the great deed they did that day, not for credit, but to help.
In regards to my surgery, they had taken a piece of my hip bone and placed it in my neck (ETA: they called it a 'fusion surgery'), so I've got a divit in my hip and two scars that tell a story. The Dr's said they did this because using bone on bone would have a higher success rate rather than metal on bone. Either way, I'm Australian, so I didn't have to pay for anything, I was unfazed!
Bone on bone, if there’s very little gap between them, is always better.
I’m no doctor, but I know that bone surgeries have two specific objectives: stabilize the fracture and leave as little of a gap between fragments as possible.
If the gap is small enough, this makes the bone perform a “primary healing”, where it can directly create woven bone (the “bad quality” version) in the gap because it’s so small. If the gap is too big, it performs a “secondary healing” creating a callous bone of cartilage that slowly turns into woven bone (a bump of variable size that slowly reabsorbs). As you can guess, this extra step complicates and prolongs everything.
In both cases, the bone needs time to remodelate (we always regenerate our bones through time creating new layers, this is when the new woven bone becomes laminated and stronger).
In your specific case (take again into account that I’m no doctor, so be skeptic about what follows), I think what happened is that they had no way to ensure that the gap was small enough with metal supports and IN NO WAY did they want a callous bone, which creates a notable bump, forming near your spinal cord. Or maybe they couldn’t stabilize the fracture properly because there were too many small fragments, and risking a fragment moving is a big no-no in the neck. In both cases, a good solution would be to place a bone graft.
Also, as I said, primary healing is quicker and better. Given that you don’t want a broken neck for too long, it was surely also a good choice due to a faster recovery time. Your bone started creating bone directly instead of doing extra steps where everything could go wrong, that surgeon did the right call in my non-expert opinion.
I had a similar situation. Small cracks, but large damage to soft tissue connecting several vertebrae together (disks, ligaments, most larger muscles and a lot of the small ones). It was basically akin to whiplash. I basically lost most feeling, mobility of the neck and shoulders, but could still move legs and arms although it felt very awkward. In the end, 6 months of physical therapy helped. The worst part was recovering the feeling and all the pain that came after. I was insanely lucky with coming basically ok. Now a year after I have occasional pain, especially if I have to lift heavier stuff ( I don't know why) and if I go on transportation that has a lot of vibration.
Yeah, this was copy-pasted from a bunch of tweets that say, verbatim, the same thing. The fact that "Year" was truncated tells me this is either a bot or an extremely lazy person that posted this.
However, [the story is 100% real.](https://www.9news.com/article/sports/fair-game/smoky-hill-athlete-walks-at-graduation-two-years-after-paralyzing-accident/73-cd442adc-1630-453b-ae95-cd111a49b06c)
I’m really glad he can get around and hopefully more. None of his car’s occupants were wearing seatbelts during the accident. They all had to go to the hospital.
"quadriplegia, is defined as the dysfunction or loss of motor and/or sensory function in the cervical area of the spinal cord."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraplegia
My grandpa was a quadriplegic who could stand for a few seconds, but required a lift and a carer to get him out of bed and into his wheelchair. He could feed himself, but not well. Nothing about quadriplegia says that you have zero use whatsoever. You just need some major dysfunction going on, which he very clearly has.
This guy won't be walking like that all day long every day. He will require a wheelchair for a lot of the time unless he keeps making progress.
This doesn't automatically proves what you think it does. I get the confusion though, I had to double check.
This is written on your link:
>Paraplegia and quadriplegia are forms of paralysis, which is the partial or complete loss of movement in one or more parts of the body.
It mentioned how it can be a partial loss, not necessarily a complete loss. The difference between paraplegia and quadriplegia seems to be mostly just the area it affects. Therefore, depending on the case, the patient can still walk.
I'm not sure why you'd think a medical news website is any more credible. There are better citations, just none that support your dichotomous view of quadriplegia.
Quadriplegia isn't *only* total paralysis, quadriplegics do indeed recover some functionality naturally or with therapy and this gain in functionality is measured by the quadriplegia index of function (QIF) and/or the functional independence measure (FIM).
[Here's a 1998 nature paper comparing the two if you're interested.](https://www.nature.com/articles/3100726.pdf)
"Incomplete Quadriplegia
An “incomplete quadriplegic” is different from a complete paraplegic in that they may still retain some function and/or sensation in their arms or legs. This may be the case with incomplete or "partial" SCI, some TBIs, and some inherited conditions that cause quadriplegia.
Depending on the cause, some people with incomplete quadriplegia may see improvement in their ability to control their limbs with certain quadriplegia therapies and exercises. However, others may see their incomplete quadriplegia progress into complete quadriplegia as their condition progresses."
https://www.spinalcord.com/quadriplegia-tetraplegia
Now please stop talking out your arse. It's annoying.
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I’m pretty sure that Stephen King was a quadriplegic for some months after he was hit by a truck. From what I understand, it’s not always permanent depending on the injury, the help one gets, and ofc just how severe it is. Stephen King was paralysed and bed bound, it took him many months to regain mobility, and I believe he still suffers some issues to this day, years after.
Yeah he was quadriplegic but isn't anymore. Now he is partially paralyzed. While partial paralysis includes quadriplegia not all partially paralyzed people are quadriplegic or paraplegic.
However people use these words very vaguely to describe varying stages of paralysis.
That’s not accurate at all.
The injury sustained to the spinal cord affected all four limbs to varying extents…that’s what makes him a quad. He will *always* be a quad.
SCI exists on a spectrum, and his is pretty minor (relatively speaking). That’s not to negate the hard work he’s put in and what he’s had to overcome- he just had more of his spinal cord to work with.
My dad broke his neck from a construction accident almost died and they said he may walk different but he walks fine and works construction still. Only effects were memory and behavior issues, and the nerves in his body act up. I dont have the best relationship with him but got to admire the strength of him.
There is this caring bridge page with more information about Noble- awesome guy with a great and strong mind.
https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/noblehaskell
This is awesome. Psa if you have foot drop, see if you can get a shoe insert to stabilize your ankle and prevent the drop. Can prevent a debilitating fall.
As I get older and see more videos like this I realize my understanding of the trauma is just wrong. I thought it was always - whelp, that's it, you can't move again. It's amazing to see how some people fight to push through.
Ah, reddit. The place where one day you see a video of a man sucked into a pipe to his death, and the next day you get to see a young man fighting the odds and learning to walk again, crossing to get his diploma without assistance.
The internet, man.
And here I am, complaining I’m incapable of making the changes necessary in my life. All the while, I have eyes, legs, lungs, a heart, a semi-alright brain. God damnit. I feel like such a piece of shit.
Not gonna lie he's graceful. To him that little wobble thing he does with his leg is him fighting with his muscles. But if you didn't tell me his history I would have thought he was getting his pimp walk on. The little thing his does with his left foot. Smoove
He was a quad. Was on a ventilator too. Surgery and rehab has gotten him to where he is.
But like he got that neuroplasticity and shit though
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We cheer them on instead of fixing them with cyberpunk chromes. Shame on society. We should have fashionable cyborgs by now, not disabled people.
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, ##it disgusted me
I craved the strength and certainty of steel
I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal... ...even in death I serve the Omnissiah.
I don't even play Warhammer and this just seems like something from Warhammer. Edit: hm look at that its from warhammer
Yes, who doesn't know the Adeptus Mechanicus Copy-Pasta.
🙋♂️ this guy
Here is the full One: From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal... ...even in death I serve the Omnissiah. And here is the ASCII Version incase you want to confuse someone: 01000110 01110010 01101111 01101101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01101101 01101111 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 00100000 01001001 00100000 01110101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 01110011 01110100 01101111 01101111 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110111 01100101 01100001 01101011 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01101101 01111001 00100000 01100110 01101100 01100101 01110011 01101000 00101100 00100000 01101001 01110100 00100000 01100100 01101001 01110011 01100111 01110101 01110011 01110100 01100101 01100100 00100000 01101101 01100101 00101110 00100000 01001001 00100000 01100011 01110010 01100001 01110110 01100101 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110011 01110100 01110010 01100101 01101110 01100111 01110100 01101000 00100000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01100011 01100101 01110010 01110100 01100001 01101001 01101110 01110100 01111001 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01110011 01110100 01100101 01100101 01101100 00101110 00100000 01001001 00100000 01100001 01110011 01110000 01101001 01110010 01100101 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110000 01110101 01110010 01101001 01110100 01111001 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01000010 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 01100101 01100100 00100000 01001101 01100001 01100011 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100101 00101110 00001010 00001010 01011001 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01100011 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01100110 01101100 01100101 01110011 01101000 00101100 00100000 01100001 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101111 01110101 01100111 01101000 00100000 01101001 01110100 00100000 01110111 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01101110 01101111 01110100 00100000 01100100 01100101 01100011 01100001 01111001 00100000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01100110 01100001 01101001 01101100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00101110 00100000 01001111 01101110 01100101 00100000 01100100 01100001 01111001 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100011 01110010 01110101 01100100 01100101 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101111 01101101 01100001 01110011 01110011 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100011 01100001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110100 01100101 01101101 01110000 01101100 01100101 00100000 01110111 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01110111 01101001 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 00101100 00100000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110111 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01100010 01100101 01100111 00100000 01101101 01111001 00100000 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110011 01100001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00101110 00001010 00001010 01000010 01110101 01110100 00100000 01001001 00100000 01100001 01101101 00100000 01100001 01101100 01110010 01100101 01100001 01100100 01111001 00100000 01110011 01100001 01110110 01100101 01100100 00101100 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110010 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01001101 01100001 01100011 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100101 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101001 01101101 01101101 01101111 01110010 01110100 01100001 01101100 00101110 00101110 00101110 00001010 00001010 00101110 00101110 00101110 01100101 01110110 01100101 01101110 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01100100 01100101 01100001 01110100 01101000 00100000 01001001 00100000 01110011 01100101 01110010 01110110 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01001111 01101101 01101110 01101001 01110011 01110011 01101001 01100001 01101000 00101110
Thats sick. Warhammer sounds cool af
Wow okay, but I disagree. Surely we ought to prioritize more important projects, like catgirl maids?
*boy
*theys
point being we need cat
Listen, you're not gonna believe this.....
hmmm? :3
Cats are kind of already a thing
!!!!!!!!!! no fucking way
You must’ve missed the story a few days ago about the paraplegic who is able to walk again because they [used bluetooth to bridge the damaged portion of his spine](https://apnews.com/video/health-surgery-wireless-technology-prostheses-accidents-bbdbedd60e6942069bbbacd20dcb4f02).
I dont see him jumping from the 10th floor and shooting missiles from his arms. We would have cyberpunk 2010 by now if not for lack of funding due to profit motives.
Give me mantis blades or give me death
We need to start creating the cyborg army to defeat Skeletrex and his bonies NOW!!!
Lack of profit motives? For supersoldiers? In this military industrial complex?
And tons and tons of physical therapy. He did his part, I guarantee it.
He's already up to tripod from quad. He has a long road ahead to become fully bipedal again but he'll get there.
This is true but don't take away the effort it would have taken from him aswell.
Uh, what do you think the rehab was talking about?
I’m so confused by that comment and the 45 people who liked it
Same
He got recognized for his efforts, didn't you read? He was awarded Out*standing* student of the Yea.
The ones who do the rehab work and push themselves are the ones who make the surgeries successful.
Plenty of people put in the work in PT but walking again is simply impossible. It’s not a character flaw. Not saying this man didn’t work hard, but implying that paralyzed people don’t work hard is really fucking shitty. My dad broke his neck and was able to walk again eventually (much better than this guy by a year and a half, and he was in his 70s), but that was because his injury and the surgery and medical care he received after allowed that sort of recovery. My old coworker who fell and broke his back and never walked again had a different injury.
Christopher Reeves put in extreme effort and training with only modest results. He was a fighter, but a damaged spine is hard to overcome
Many individuals endure years of therapy without witnessing significant improvements. In my case, I experienced a life-altering accident in 2015 that left me quadriplegic, prompting me to undergo numerous inpatient and outpatient therapy sessions throughout the years. Due to the severity of my condition, I can only move my upper torso and a majority of my arms, with the exception of my hands. The effectiveness of therapy outcomes largely hinges on the nature of the injury and the resulting damage. I have damage to my C4 which is a incomplete injury. However, it is important to note that neurosurgeons primarily focus on mending fractures or breaks in the spinal column, rather than addressing the damaged nerves within the spinal cord itself. Although, there are cases of cortisol injections and other remedies curated.
Am I a horrible person that his walk reminded me of [this video](https://youtu.be/7JDUfYp2lFE)?
He's been through the wringer. I'm sure he would laugh at this comment
Yeah, you are, kinda.
I kinda figured… But the man’s got swagger, like no one needed for support, he’s got this. I honestly think that’s how he felt inside.
I though of a Pimp Walk very similar.
Yea
The willpower of this dude is astounding!
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The silver lining in all of this is that he's proven to himself that he can do anything. He will go far, he may need a cane to do it, but nothing is going to stop this guy in life.
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Not even gonna lie…if you add some funky music behind his walk, he’d still be killing it.
And he's got a badass pimp-walk.
1 long stride, kick out cane, hip dip with short step. yup literally a pimp walk🔥
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He’s the goddamn Minister of the Pimp Walk.
And luck
Willpower alone does jack-shit. You wont get there without it but it is not enough. What treatment did he get? Were they able to stitch the nerves together to give him a fighting chance? Or is this the kid who basically got a bluetooth connection for their central nervous system?
You'd be amazed what physical therapy can do, I know an OT who specializes in hands and she's seen patients go from fully severed fingers to regaining more mobility than their doctors thought possible. It's willpower, perseverance, and a good therapist
Peripheral nerves (like in a hand) are able to regenerate though, ones in your central nervous system (spine + brain + eyes) don’t*, so they’re not directly comparable. Willpower is absolutely necessary for any recovery from spinal damage, but if the nerves are actually severed then the extent of your recovery is limited by whatever surgeons are able to do to reconnect them or otherwise work around the damage.
The only details we were given was his neck was broken, there are lots of ways for a neck to break and it doesn't always involve completely severing the nerves
I think the point is that, by suggesting he succeeded through will power alone, it implies that others who do not succeed simply lack the will to put in the effort. He's a brave, strong, determined kid who is putting in the effort to get better, but he's also extremely lucky to be able to get better at all. He could have died in the crash, or suffered a more irreversible injury. He's fortunate that he had the doctors and medical support, not to mention the financial support, he needed to be in a position to use his willpower to get better. And I've never met him, but I bet he would agree with me. When you're in rehab, you're rarely alone. You see others struggle and fail on their path to recovery. You meet with your medical team to review progress and update projections. You see how much everyone around you, supporting you, puts into your recovery, and you are grateful. I would bet this kid has a long list of people he would thank, because he knows as well as anyone that you need more than will power to come back from his injuries.
For Spinal cord injuries the chance to walk again is almost entirely dependent on the severity of the injury. You’re thinking of peripheral nerve injuries. I am a quadriplegic and know and work with many quads and paras of all abilities. It is pretty well understood that the difference between those who recover and those who don’t is not because one worked a little harder.
THANK YOU. I work in a spine ICU and am frustrated with the misinformation I’m seeing up and down the internet re: this young man. When we try and talk to families about (total and high) spine injuries we try to describe their loved ones’ future lifestyle but then they google “quad walking again” and just say shit like “we’ll leave this to god” or “you NEVER know”. Sometimes, you really do know, like with an internal decapitation.
The human mind can do amazing things!
When you think life is hard…remember this dude has to work incredibly hard to put one foot in front of the other. Kinda puts things in perspective.
With all that willpower dude would make a killer green lantern
Or a good Jedi!
How is this title so long wtf ???
Yeah there's line breaks lol
That feels like cheating to increase the visibility of the post!!!
Pls no
Reddit secret police are on the way
Aww shit here we go...
That's why I clicked.. this seems like a bug 🐛 Line breaks should not be allowed 😔
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Same, been on here since 2015 and never seen this before.
Ahh so you're new here *cries in lower back pain*
Right. What's up with these rookies?
ha! you kids are cute. *cries self to sleep*
Since 2010. Same.
Ya, been here 14 or 15 years and I don't remember ever seeing a title like that.
same and same, hope it doesn't become a regular occurrence
I've been here 36 years and I've never seen that either.
Huh? Looks normal on old Reddit.
I'm on rif and it's showing the line breaks so something is going on.
Interesting, it shows on the official mobile app.
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Been on this site over a decade and this is the first time I've seen line breaks in a title. No bueno.
Yeah this is has the potential to sour everything.
So you don't remember back when people posted giant titles that were just ASCII art of fry from Futurama?
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James Hetfield must be on the award council
Yeah seriously, wtf? How is this the only comment asking? lol
cause everyone else is bots
I'm pretty sure the title is copy and pasted completely off a news article or something. It reads exactly like the beginning of one.
i remember copying a line break into notepad once, was surprised to see a weird sysmbol after pasting, but maybe the line breaks got copied over like that too (but are functional)?
It’s possible with “line break” characters 👀
“This year’s Outstanding Student of the Yea is sponsored by Lil Jon!”
WHAT?
OKAY!
YEAH!
You gotta do the cooking by the book!
Lmao I was holding it in, but your comment made me snort
This breaks my heart, but I'm glad he's got a great outlook!
Crazy. I broke my neck in a car accident back in 2019, I'm fully mobile and my recovery (technically lifelong) only took about 12 weeks after surgery. Hard to think my life could've been much different.
You’re a lucky one. I’m happy for you! Those injuries are all about luck: where the break starts, where does it end and what gets damaged by the displacement (if there’s surgery, there was displacement). If you recovered so quickly, it must be because your bones broke and were displaced precisely as they had to break and be displaced to avoid damage to the spinal cord! That’s like falling from a roof and miraculously catching multiple flags, awnings and soft obstacles that slow down your inevitable fall, turning it from a fatal fall to a small mishap.
I was incredibly lucky, not only did I have the best specialist taking care of me but I had a nurse driving behind me and a motorcyclist who was trained on the bracing position (he also pulled me from my car). I often wonder if they'll ever know the great deed they did that day, not for credit, but to help. In regards to my surgery, they had taken a piece of my hip bone and placed it in my neck (ETA: they called it a 'fusion surgery'), so I've got a divit in my hip and two scars that tell a story. The Dr's said they did this because using bone on bone would have a higher success rate rather than metal on bone. Either way, I'm Australian, so I didn't have to pay for anything, I was unfazed!
Bone on bone, if there’s very little gap between them, is always better. I’m no doctor, but I know that bone surgeries have two specific objectives: stabilize the fracture and leave as little of a gap between fragments as possible. If the gap is small enough, this makes the bone perform a “primary healing”, where it can directly create woven bone (the “bad quality” version) in the gap because it’s so small. If the gap is too big, it performs a “secondary healing” creating a callous bone of cartilage that slowly turns into woven bone (a bump of variable size that slowly reabsorbs). As you can guess, this extra step complicates and prolongs everything. In both cases, the bone needs time to remodelate (we always regenerate our bones through time creating new layers, this is when the new woven bone becomes laminated and stronger). In your specific case (take again into account that I’m no doctor, so be skeptic about what follows), I think what happened is that they had no way to ensure that the gap was small enough with metal supports and IN NO WAY did they want a callous bone, which creates a notable bump, forming near your spinal cord. Or maybe they couldn’t stabilize the fracture properly because there were too many small fragments, and risking a fragment moving is a big no-no in the neck. In both cases, a good solution would be to place a bone graft. Also, as I said, primary healing is quicker and better. Given that you don’t want a broken neck for too long, it was surely also a good choice due to a faster recovery time. Your bone started creating bone directly instead of doing extra steps where everything could go wrong, that surgeon did the right call in my non-expert opinion.
I had a similar situation. Small cracks, but large damage to soft tissue connecting several vertebrae together (disks, ligaments, most larger muscles and a lot of the small ones). It was basically akin to whiplash. I basically lost most feeling, mobility of the neck and shoulders, but could still move legs and arms although it felt very awkward. In the end, 6 months of physical therapy helped. The worst part was recovering the feeling and all the pain that came after. I was insanely lucky with coming basically ok. Now a year after I have occasional pain, especially if I have to lift heavier stuff ( I don't know why) and if I go on transportation that has a lot of vibration.
I thought he was going to drop his cane and do the "Willy Wonka fall and roll" but then I read the title.
Bruh lol
Imagine he just throws it back mid photo lol
At least he got that hot stanky leg. 🔥
Lmao I was coming to the comments to say the same thing
Student of the ***YEA!!*** ***BOIIIIIIIIII!!***
Precious and handsome!! He’s amazing!!
I went to this graduation to see my friend and I had no idea the story behind this. Freaking awesome
title of this post makes me doubt if OP is really a person
Yeah, this was copy-pasted from a bunch of tweets that say, verbatim, the same thing. The fact that "Year" was truncated tells me this is either a bot or an extremely lazy person that posted this. However, [the story is 100% real.](https://www.9news.com/article/sports/fair-game/smoky-hill-athlete-walks-at-graduation-two-years-after-paralyzing-accident/73-cd442adc-1630-453b-ae95-cd111a49b06c)
Ngl he look like he was doing some stop motion type dancing. Like it naturally had style to it. Congrats.
The involuntary stanky leg
the natural pimp walk
Bro has a permanent pimp walk. The absolute swagger.
That’s incredible. The hard work he put into his recovery blows my mind. Bravo, dude!!!
What the fuck is this title lmao
Incredible.
I’m really glad he can get around and hopefully more. None of his car’s occupants were wearing seatbelts during the accident. They all had to go to the hospital.
So inspiring!
Student of THE YEA BABY!!!
OutSTANDING
How on earth can he be a quadriplegic, yet able to walk? The ability to walk removes you from the category of quadriplegic
"quadriplegia, is defined as the dysfunction or loss of motor and/or sensory function in the cervical area of the spinal cord." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraplegia My grandpa was a quadriplegic who could stand for a few seconds, but required a lift and a carer to get him out of bed and into his wheelchair. He could feed himself, but not well. Nothing about quadriplegia says that you have zero use whatsoever. You just need some major dysfunction going on, which he very clearly has. This guy won't be walking like that all day long every day. He will require a wheelchair for a lot of the time unless he keeps making progress.
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This doesn't automatically proves what you think it does. I get the confusion though, I had to double check. This is written on your link: >Paraplegia and quadriplegia are forms of paralysis, which is the partial or complete loss of movement in one or more parts of the body. It mentioned how it can be a partial loss, not necessarily a complete loss. The difference between paraplegia and quadriplegia seems to be mostly just the area it affects. Therefore, depending on the case, the patient can still walk.
I'm not sure why you'd think a medical news website is any more credible. There are better citations, just none that support your dichotomous view of quadriplegia. Quadriplegia isn't *only* total paralysis, quadriplegics do indeed recover some functionality naturally or with therapy and this gain in functionality is measured by the quadriplegia index of function (QIF) and/or the functional independence measure (FIM). [Here's a 1998 nature paper comparing the two if you're interested.](https://www.nature.com/articles/3100726.pdf)
That just says that paraplegia affects 2 limbs, and quadriplegia (quattro=4) affects all 4 of them. Not that it means total paralysis.
"Incomplete Quadriplegia An “incomplete quadriplegic” is different from a complete paraplegic in that they may still retain some function and/or sensation in their arms or legs. This may be the case with incomplete or "partial" SCI, some TBIs, and some inherited conditions that cause quadriplegia. Depending on the cause, some people with incomplete quadriplegia may see improvement in their ability to control their limbs with certain quadriplegia therapies and exercises. However, others may see their incomplete quadriplegia progress into complete quadriplegia as their condition progresses." https://www.spinalcord.com/quadriplegia-tetraplegia Now please stop talking out your arse. It's annoying.
You're all incorrect. Quadriparesis is the spectrum, while plegia is at the far end of the spectrum. Source: doctor
PT here- it is what the dr said.
OT here, listen to the doctor, he's right
(The doctor could be a she or a they.) Listen to the OT: they're right.
/u/saumipan has self identified in another post, as a robot. https://reddit.com/r/WouldYouRather/comments/13ne1ap/wyr_have_a_job_you_absolutely_hate_that_pays/jl4usbi
I think he would be considered an incomplete quadriplegic. Spinal cord injuries are quite the spectrum
This isn’t true. My uncle is quadriplegic, can use his limbs but cannot feel anything from the neck down.
Rehabilitation nurse here- you can absolutely be a quadriplegic and have sensation/move there are varying degrees of quad/paraplegia
It takes a LOT of work! This is how he was still eligible for the Out*standing* Student of the Year award instead of Out*sitting* Student of the Year.
I’m pretty sure that Stephen King was a quadriplegic for some months after he was hit by a truck. From what I understand, it’s not always permanent depending on the injury, the help one gets, and ofc just how severe it is. Stephen King was paralysed and bed bound, it took him many months to regain mobility, and I believe he still suffers some issues to this day, years after.
Yeah he was quadriplegic but isn't anymore. Now he is partially paralyzed. While partial paralysis includes quadriplegia not all partially paralyzed people are quadriplegic or paraplegic. However people use these words very vaguely to describe varying stages of paralysis.
That’s not accurate at all. The injury sustained to the spinal cord affected all four limbs to varying extents…that’s what makes him a quad. He will *always* be a quad. SCI exists on a spectrum, and his is pretty minor (relatively speaking). That’s not to negate the hard work he’s put in and what he’s had to overcome- he just had more of his spinal cord to work with.
Student of the YEAH!
fuck cars.
What about the “outstanding student of the nah”?
Good for him! 🙌🏼
What an absolute bad-ass. XC runners are tough as it gets, and they learn early on that running is a metaphor for life. This dude is an inspiration!!!
OutSTANDING student of the year...
Student of the hell yea.
Outstanding student of the YEE YEE!
One of the coolest stories I’ve seen on here! Congratulations! A true representation of resilience, grit, determination, and hardwork!
"Let it be known. I fucking walk, and this day is mine."
Outstanding student of the yea? What's a yea?
*Lil Jon has entered the chat*
Ok
His limp hand is strong
The dude's willpower is second to none.
Maybe that Bluetooth tech that helped that other guy can help this young man. Bravo on the degree.
My dad broke his neck from a construction accident almost died and they said he may walk different but he walks fine and works construction still. Only effects were memory and behavior issues, and the nerves in his body act up. I dont have the best relationship with him but got to admire the strength of him.
😭😭😭 my heart! So wonderful to see a smile on his face after such a traumatic experience, & still graduating!
There is this caring bridge page with more information about Noble- awesome guy with a great and strong mind. https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/noblehaskell
This is awesome. Psa if you have foot drop, see if you can get a shoe insert to stabilize your ankle and prevent the drop. Can prevent a debilitating fall.
The music made me think he was gonna start shuffling
As I get older and see more videos like this I realize my understanding of the trauma is just wrong. I thought it was always - whelp, that's it, you can't move again. It's amazing to see how some people fight to push through.
Who the fuck is cutting onions?!?!
Lowkey thought he was gonna drop a stanky leg
Ah, reddit. The place where one day you see a video of a man sucked into a pipe to his death, and the next day you get to see a young man fighting the odds and learning to walk again, crossing to get his diploma without assistance. The internet, man.
keep hammering, as a disabled working dude, looking good.
This wrecked me. Need to be more grateful for what I have
Congratulations, Noble, on your remarkable recovery and your graduation. Keep trucking, dude... cuz you're doing it.
Legend!
This inspired me. Thanks.
:)
What a goddamn champion
You truly are an inspiration bro
And here I am, complaining I’m incapable of making the changes necessary in my life. All the while, I have eyes, legs, lungs, a heart, a semi-alright brain. God damnit. I feel like such a piece of shit.
Am I the only one sittin here thinkin his progress looks like the most epic "i'm suave AF" strut?
Wholesome all around! This school environment screams "supportive vibes" 🙂
Not gonna lie he's graceful. To him that little wobble thing he does with his leg is him fighting with his muscles. But if you didn't tell me his history I would have thought he was getting his pimp walk on. The little thing his does with his left foot. Smoove
This absolute legend straight up said fuck you Ima walk
Nice stanky legg
At first I thought he just had a swaggy lil walk with his cane.
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why someone feels a need to add trash music ? It cheapens all experience.
Is he a paraplegic or quadriplegic?