Tag: lung injury
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Neural Rewiring and GI Triggers for SCI Recovery | Sep 28 – Oct 4 2025
All the work being put in, day in and day out. Feeling some new “rumblings”..
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Oct 29th – Nov 4th 2023: UTI’s and Train Rides
Nov 1st Today I have been feeling a lot better. I think it probably was a UTI…… but lots to do and think about! It’s been an incredible time for me thus far, and I don’t want that to stop. Still feeling kinda wonky and this trip has me fairly stressed….. it wasn’t the most…
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Getting Weight Bearing for SCI Rehabilitation | Aug 27 – Sep 2 2023
Tall kneeling – new books – new ideas – my pup I miss so much. Simple joys in life help make it all worth living.
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Blood Flow Restriction (BFR) Therapy for SCI Rehab | Aug 20 – 26 2023
BFR & Back To School!
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Standing Frame Tolerance for SCI Health & Wellness | Aug 13 – 19 2023
Getting up in the standing frame, trying my hand at the guitar with bruised ribs. Trying to actually sleep again.
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“We did it” Moving Forward from SCI Injury for Recovery | July 30 – Aug 5 2023
Better connections for Stim Pads? Getting outside? Try to do that more!
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Back In Therapy for Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation | July 23 – 29 2023
First week back in Michigan and started at The Recovery Project! What a great name for what I’m working on!
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Back In The Hospital | July 16 – 22 2023
Back in the hospital after only being home for 5 days.
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First Week Home | July 9 – 15 2023
Back in town, reunited with Max. Trying to figure it all out.
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Accident + ICU: Jake’s Perspective
8/31/25 Joe – Where were you when you found out about the accident? It was Thursday, May 18. I was working in Olivet, Michigan, across from the college, on a job with Mitch, Hank, and Mike O. I got a call from Jessica saying you’d been in an accident. I phoned Dad right away, but…
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Injury List
So, what you’re about to read took me a couple of weeks after my accident for me to finally get a brief list from my doctors. It was surreal, lying in the hospital, waking up one day, and wondering, “what the heck happened to me? and why can’t I feel my legs?” also, “why am…
The Astronaut on Earth 