My spinal cord is paper!

All my problems seem to revolve around my spinal cord!
I always played sports and danced a lot. My balance on tiptoe seemed perfect! While the boys put "a meter tongue out" in a few laps, I finished 8 km with a sense of pleasure mixed with fatigue. I've always been "one" who was fast and left everyone behind and complaining. And in the classes of college athletes, jump in my time were the highest, no one would catch me at the races. I was so "invincible", within the normal range.
... today I am fragile and vulnerable!
I am disabled and I'm not standing, but move the legs. I need people for things that were so simple! ...
Oh, I almost forgot to say that my things were done dynamically. Now, as I "run", can not do everything on that plan. My head thinks a speed and my body another.
I have spinal cord injury - must accept this, but I confess it's hard! I know I can not be the same as before, but I have to find ways to live well now. I'm learning with others, how to be poor, but being well. Feels like I'm in another world, I did not know existed. I found that the worst thing "this world" is the lack of accessibility. Because of this discovery, I want to do our best to make my life and other more accessible.
... my marrow is now a simple allegory of paper.

Foto: D H Wright