Spinal Cord Injury

From one moment to the next, something that was simply there your whole life — taken entirely for granted — is gone. You want to move a leg — and nothing happens. You want to stand up — and the body stays where it is. Between your will and your body, where an invisible, never-questioned thread once ran, there is suddenly a silence. No bridge. No connection. You think of movement, and the body does not hear you.