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	<title>Mad Spaz Club &#187; Personal Spinal Injury Stories</title>
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	<description>Where there&#039;s a wheel there&#039;s a way</description>
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		<title>Fall And Rise Of A Star &#8211; Tasha Amadi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tasha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At seventeen Tasha Amadi became a quadriplegic after a diving accident in March 2006 when training for a school swimming gala. An avid swimmer and scholar admired by her peers Tasha’s world was turned upside down.” The moment I hit the water I couldn’t feel my body. I floated around in the water face down, unable to get up. I saw blood in the water (I must have bitten my tongue) and heard my friend telling me to stop messing around and that I wasn’t being funny.” Her courage and determination saw her complete school with distinctions and go on to inspire all who meet her.]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Ward &#8211; Light At The End Of The Tunnel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello, my name is Timothy Ward. On November 13th of 2008 I was in a serious motor vehicle accident which rendered me a C5 complete tetraplegic. After the accident I spent five weeks in the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, Australia then flew home to Christchurch, New Zealand and spent seven months in the Burwood Spinal...]]></description>
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		<title>Quadriplegia &#8211; A View From The Chair</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quadriplegia is typically caused by injury to the cervical section C1-C7 of the spinal cord. My name is Graham, as a quadriplegic I've not only learnt a great deal about spinal cord injury, paralysis, and life as a quadriplegic but the social impacts, emotional depths, and what I sometimes refer to as, the gift of my accident. Life for me today…]]></description>
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		<title>Tegan Crick &#8211; Every Mothers Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It Was Mothers Day. Tegan was to visit with her Mum but detoured off road for a bit of "bush bashing" first. "It was fun for a while then things got out of hand. The last thing I remember was my boyfriend yelling at the driver to slow down. I woke up in hospital a C5 paraplegic." Tegan shares her heartbreak upon learning she would never walk again, receiving her first wheelchair and...]]></description>
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		<title>Gimp &#8211; A Word Not A Condition</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bob Salazman explains how "gimp" is just a word and shares his story of determination to walk independently leaving the wheelchair far behind. Pushing himself through a grueling exercise regime at the local YMCA incredibly Bob's next goal is to run. "I had to believe in myself and believe that I could do more tomorrow than I was doing today...]]></description>
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		<title>Janine Shepherd &#8211; Learning To Fly</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Janine Shepherd was a 24 year old cross country skier in training for the winter Olympics when her life took a dramatic turn in 1986, hit by a truck while training in the Blue Mountains. Janine suffered terrible spinal cord injuries breaking her neck and back. Doctors and family feared she would not survive. Her incredible...]]></description>
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		<title>MND Carers &#8211; A Very Special Kind Of Person</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caing for her husband diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease, Marilyn talks about the emotional turmoil involved with being both wife and carer. "Sometimes I didn’t even know where I ended and David began." Marilyn takes us through the extacy and agony as Motor Neurone Disease threatens to take down two lives...]]></description>
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