mck16
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I once Private Duty nursed a man in his 50s who was a C-5 - C-6 quad for almost 25 yrs. as a result of a car accident. He had his own addition built onto the family home, paid for by the insurance company. He had nurses or nurses aides 24/7.
This man had optimal care and an optimal living situation. He had a loving and supportive family. He was a smart guy and had a pretty darn good sense of humor. We got along well.
It is not a life that I can imagine anyone wanting to live.
My little cousin suffered a terrible injury when she was a senior in high school. She was a cheerleader and at a game one night they were doing the pyramid and she fell off the top. Not sure what she broke but she was paralyzed totally from the neck down.
She was in the hospital on a ventilator for several weeks. One day she told her mother she was tired and she wanted to go to Heaven so she could see her grandparents and run and walk with her granddaddy. She was 18 and made this decision on her own. Her parents honored that decision and they let her out of her prison. She is now in a place where she can walk, she can breathe on her own, she can feed herself, and she can be happy. Kicker is, when she was 6 years old, she beat a kidney cancer that was 100% fatal. She went to MD Anderson and underwent horrible chemo treatments, but she survived only to die 12 years later in a cheerleading accident. We never know what life is going to deal us. She will never be forgotten and I am proud she was my little cousin.