I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!  While watching the AFC Championship game today, 
there were constant blurbs about tonight's "Dateline", which featured Reggie 
Brown's "inspirational" recovery.  For those who don't know, Reggie Brown 
plays for the Detroit Lions, and suffered a spinal cord injury a couple of 
weeks ago.   He was paralyzed, and stopped breathing on the field.  
It turned out his cord was bruised around C-1.  Since the injury, Brown has 
recovered most, if not all, of his function and sensation.  That's great, no 
question about it.  But "inspirational?"  Hardly.  Damn lucky, yes.  
Inspirational, no.  Neither recovery from SCI nor living with SCI is 
inspirational - it's just the break life gives you.  A good break, and you 
recover.  A bad break, and you stay paralyzed.  No "inspiration" either way.  
*adh*
--- Msged/2 4.10
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