DENVER, Feb. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Today, the Global Down Syndrome Foundation (GLOBAL) announced it has appointed to its board of directors: Philanthropist & Owner/Partner of the Colorado Rockies Charlie
CU senior paralyzed after rare spinal stroke
FORT COLLINS, CO (KCNC) A student at the University of Colorado Boulder is spending his senior year at home in Fort Collins, fighting to walk again. Four months ago, he suffered a rare spinal stroke and is now in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the chest down.
His prognosis is uncertain, but 22-year-old James Campbell is determined to fully recover.
“I never saw this in my future,” James told CBS4 Health Specialist Kathy Walsh.
James was healthy and athletic. He was an active outdoorsman, a fraternity brother, a CU business major. But on Sept. 20, 2020, alone in his Boulder apartment, he was helpless.
Photo from Darien Waker
The snowboard community near and far has rallied for one of its own, local snowboard coach Chris Waker.
Waker suffered a “freak” neck injury while riding at Copper Mountain Resort on Christmas Eve, breaking the C5, C6 and C7 vertebrae in his neck. He is recovering at Craig Hospital in Englewood after multiple surgeries the first at 4 a.m. Christmas Day including the installation of several cervical plates.
Waker’s wife, Darien, said Thursday that Waker has made recent progress at the hospital, which specializes in spinal cord injuries and rehabilitation.
Two weeks ago Waker was limited to laying in bed. Since then, he’s progressed from being able to sit in a wheelchair to using a manual wheelchair for the first time Thursday. Darien said her husband was able to move the wheelchair using the bottom of his hands. Also in recent days, Waker has been able to use a fork attached to his hand to feed himself and even throw a bean bag at a cornhole tar
In times of need, small towns speak language of food
If you’ve read Gary Chapman’s best-selling, “The 5 Love Languages”, you know that between gifts and acts of service belongs an unwritten love language, food. 5:30 am, Feb. 14, 2020 ×
Coconut Cream Pie Bars. Cristen Clark / Special to Agweek
If you’ve read Gary Chapman’s best-selling, “The 5 Love Languages”, you know that between gifts and acts of service belongs an unwritten love language, food.
I’ve been experiencing the food love language my entire life. One of my fondest childhood memories is walking into the kitchen after school for fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies and a slice of braided oatmeal bread my mom had baked. As our son has been in spinal cord injury rehabilitation since early January, we’ve received gift boxes of food sent to us and food dropped off for us, both by friends and strangers.