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Category Archives: dreams
The Day that Changed my Life: Fifty Years On!
a couple of the Cape Town newspaper clippings 17th April 1965 “Life is what happens in between making other plans.” – John Lennon from http://www.livingwithheadinjury.wordpress.com and http://www.lifeisgodsnovel.wordpress.com My racing dream may have died that dramatic day fifty years ago, yet … Continue reading
Posted in dreams, My Story, Stirling, Stirling by craig lock, Stirling Moss
Tagged autobiography, dreams, head (brain) injury, motor racing
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THOUGHTS ON NELSON MANDELA (PART TWO): What Each ONE of Us Can Learn from Madiba
THOUGHTS ON NELSON MANDELA (PART TWO): What Each ONE of Us Can Learn from Madiba from http://www.mandelamadiba.wordpress.com “Together, one mind, one soul at a time, let’s see how many people we can impact, empower, encourage and perhaps even inspire to … Continue reading
Shattered dreams rebuilt anew
Told he’d not walk again after a serious crash, a teen cyclist had other ideas.
Fraser Sharp in the hills above Tauranga, where he has been in training for the half-ironman. Photo / Alan Gibson
Brain injuries took away Fraser Sharp’s speech and physical movement 20 years ago. But this summer, he is preparing for an ironman race – 12 hours of running, swimming and cycling – to prove anything’s possible with dedication.
Mr Sharp recalls the Auckland rehab centre where he learned to speak and walk again in 1993.
He was 16 years old and had just woken up from a month-long coma – with a changed personality and disabilities.
Doctors said he wouldn’t walk again and had only an 8 per cent chance of regaining control of the right side of his body.
But Mr Sharp had emerged from the coma with a drive that seemed to cut through it all.
“It was all the brain knew how to do – get back on the bike,” he says. Continue reading
Posted in brain injury, closed head injury, dreams, Head (brain injury), hope, quiet heroes
Tagged brain injury, closed head injury, dreams, head injury, hope, quiet heroes
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