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Being a huge hoops fan, I was quite disturbed when I learned of Rodney Rodger's spinal cord injury back (http://www.scisucks.org/content/rodney-rodgers-paralyzed) in December. Chris Webber (Rodney's friend and former teammate) interviewed him and this was displayed at halftime of Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals over the weekend. This was Rodney's first public appearance since his injury.

A lot of people find this site via Google when they are searching for answers when spinal cord injury makes an unwelcome appearance in their lives.  I get emails from people that sometimes touch me deeply.  I thought this one was particularly powerful  and am sharing it with the permission of the wonderful woman who wrote it:

Hello,

First of all, I want to tell you how much I love this site. I agree, Spinal Cord Injuries Suck and most people have no clue. I have read most of your posts and have passed on some of the information to my daughter, who is a recent C5 Incomplete Quad.(Just typing that out makes me cry) Feels the same way you do about the bowel and bladder program. Recently, told her boyfriend, who started showing-up less and less, to move on. Didn't want someone around, who felt "obligated" to hang with her. Wanted to focus on her recovery and didn't feel like she could be a very good girlfriend to him right now.