Date of Injury: 8/3/2019

Cause of Injury: Swimming accident

VVF Scholarship: Recovery Training Sessions

What are you Facing, Embracing, Defying and Conquering? Diving into a pool, I hit my head on the bottom & I instantly became paralyzed. I ended up with a spinal cord injury (C6) incomplete. 

How do you FACE it? By not backing down from the challenges in front of me.

How do you EMBRACE it? I am a true believer of everything happens for a reason. There is something for me to learn out of this.

How do you DEFY it? I defy by never allowing it to alter my mindset or attitude in anyway, just accepted it as a challenge. 

How do you CONQUER it? I’m conquering it by regaining movement and walking when all odds were against me.

What does this scholarship from VVF mean to you? To be able to continue making progress in order to change my life is everything.  Without this scholarship I would not have to means to do so.