“I used to be able to walk and do everything you can do, but I was driving a car where I had a very bad accident and I broke my neck. There are millions of tiny little fibers gooshy as a banana in your spinal cord that help send messages to the brain to tell your legs and arms what to do. When I had the accident, I broke some vertebrae and the bones pressing on my spinal cord damaged the fibers.”
Elsewhere in today’s paper is the obituary for Clara Belle Weatherman, who worked as a copy editor at The News- Gazette for close to 30 years. She outlived two husbands and was definitely a force to bereckoned with.