Robby Beckman
When it comes down to it, I’ve never met a person with a spinal cord injury as happy and funny as Robby. My toughest days were definitely when I was in the critical unit and inpatient rehabilitation. While in inpatient rehabilitation, I met Robby for the first time. Robby wheeled in my room at the hospital and started talking with me. Robby probably didn’t know it, but it was so comforting to be able speak to somebody my own age who was living with a spinal cord injury. He told me that the doctors said that he would never walk again, but through incredible determination and a rigorous rehabilitation program a year after his injury, he was able to walk with a walker. Robby’s presence in the early phases of my injury has inspired me to be get back in the hospitals and to speak to newly injured paralysis patients.