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🗓️ 25 February 2025
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0:00.0 | So then you get this crazy condition, right, when you're 12. |
0:04.0 | Tell us about that. |
0:05.0 | Yeah, just before my 12th birthday, on January 8th, I woke up. |
0:08.6 | I had the flu, and my body's immune system attacked the nerve endings |
0:12.3 | at the base of my spinal cord, which caused swelling on the myelin sheath, |
0:16.3 | which is right at the base of your spine, and it cut off connection between my brain and my legs. |
0:21.4 | Wow. |
0:22.4 | And so it's a condition called acute transverse myelitis, which Ray can say three times fast. |
0:27.6 | Well, my leg is like, no, well, that's about it. |
0:30.6 | There you go, we'll leave it at that. |
0:32.6 | And so the diagnosis was basically that I would be a paraplegic, most likely for the rest of my life. |
0:39.2 | Wow. |
0:39.5 | Wow. |
0:39.7 | It was what they told me. |
0:40.6 | Yeah. |
0:40.9 | And then the short story is that one month exactly from the day, I woke up on a Saturday morning on February 8th, got out of bed and walked over to my wheelchair and sat down. |
0:48.5 | Wow. |
0:49.2 | Really? |
0:49.7 | Yeah. |
0:49.9 | Yeah. |
0:50.1 | After a month of being immobile? |
0:52.5 | Yeah. |
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