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After my first yr of life I used to be walking. I used my biped facility to play football with great enthusiasm but little skill. I walked thousands of college hallways and campuses as students, then teacher, principal, and superintendent. I walked out of Walpole (NH) Congregational Cathedral with my new bride-to-be Lynn on my arm. I taken my baby little girl Emily. We walked through London's Piccadilly Circus, the Coliseum in Rome, the Eiffel Tower, Costa Rican Indian villages, Denali, Cozumel ruins and many Caribbean seashores. I hiked the Appalachian Trail with my wife, son, brother, niece, nephew, and lots of my students and warmer summer months campers. And Father. I walked all around the New Great britain and Arizona tracks with Dad. In my 61st yr of life I walked in to the neurosurgery pre-op center at Cedars Sinai INFIRMARY in Los Angeles. I removed my clothes and experienced the hospital gown. I laid down on a gurney, to never walk normally again. In a few hours I awoke from unsuccessful surgery on an intradural melanotic schwannoma at T-11 (about the amount of my navel) inside my spinal-cord. I could use my thighs and then wiggle my feet weakly and feebly press my foot down as if on an imaginary car accelerator pedal. Within the ensuing five years, I advanced from traveling a gurney to walking at about 1/3 normal rate for men of my era with a cane and total focus on my jerky hardly balancing thighs for distances of up to half of a mile and durations up to 45 minutes. This booklet shares what I, with the countless who helped me, did to produce a far greater restoration than any physician or physical therapist expected. A few of my physical rehabilitation may have specific relevance and then people that have physical disabilities. Most of my mental rehabilitation will have relevance to everyone. I write this wanting to give everyone kind enough to hear this booklet some valuable insights without your needing to experience paraplegia, like I did so, to discover them.
