If you have a spinal cord injury you don't want to wait four hours,

It seemed like an ordinary day, but little did I know that this wasn’t going to be a normal ballet class.

I was really happy because the doctor had said I would be better by then, and I was ready for this terrible nightmare to be over.

Knowing that only minutes earlier I had walked to the car, my mom helped me out and stood me up in the parking lot. My legs collapsed. I could still move them, but I couldn’t walk.

When the doctors came in a little while later saying they thought they knew my diagnosis, I was afraid to know.

All of a sudden, my right hand was dead, unplugged, and my left was definitely not working right.