I also got very close to my faith in God. But life is harder. You battle bladder infections. If you get sick, it's harder. I get irritated more easily, and occasionally I get depressed.
Life is more of a struggle.
Comebacks like Miller's would have been unheard of as recently as the World War II era, when 90 percent of spinal cord-injured patients died. It wasn't until the late 1960s and early 1970s that survival rates began approaching 90 percent, primarily due to advances in handling bladder problems. Today, estimates of the number of people living with spinal cord injuries vary from 200,000 to 500,000. Spinal Cord Complex Spinal cord injury is devastating because of the complexity, delicacy and importance of the spinal cord itself. Containing more than 20 million nerve fibers, it is the major conduit for transmitting motor and sensory information between brain and body.