Joni Eareckson Quadriplegia

Amberley Snyder is the first example of courageous person who battles an injury and learns to ride again through determination, passion, and self-confidence. Amberley Snyder was a professional barrel racer who was in a serious accident. On January 10, 2010 Snyder was driving her truck and trailer on her way to the Denver stock show when she faded over a lane, when she saw this she tried to fix it but over-corrected her truck and wrecked. She hit a fence post and her back was immediately broken. She reached down and pinched her leg, but quickly realized she could not feel anything. Her doctor told her that because she was paralyzed from the waist down that she would never walk again, he also told her she would have no chance of ever being able to rodeo again. Despite what the doctor had told her Amberley Snyder was determined to ride again. Snyder says “ She made her mom promise that she would be able to rodeo again

Jane’s childhood struggle of losing her mother prepared her for her future struggles. She constantly had a church family to rely on growing up to strengthen her faith. Jane worked hard and had a good education; it was all preparing her for her later work. God strengthened her love and faith while she worked as a girls’ matron, and she displayed this love in her sacrificial death. God used Jane Haining’s life for His glory, and He prepared her for it through each stage of her life.

She sometimes thought John would no longer recognize her; it had been so long that "he would be a child beside her if she saw him now" (3). She doubts herself; she doesn't think John would recognize her but reassures herself that his love and understanding would require no explanations of her. This pride she derives from John and her children makes her "jiltings" seem more like a blessing: "It made her feel like rolling up her sleeves and putting the whole place to rights again" (3). There were still so many things she could do for her children; she didn't want to be taken yet: "that would have to wait. That was for tomorrow" (3). She was telling death, "tomorrow" not today.

The narrator understands that for a peaceful existence she must try to accept her position. As she succumbs to laying around, she starts to lose her strength and tells the reader, “John says I mustn’t lose my strength [,] has me take cod liver oil and lots of tonics and things, to say nothing of the ale and wines and rare meat” (244). John is using his doctoring skills, anticipating that this will drive her back to health. She senses his love saying, “He is very careful and loving, and hardly let me stir without special direction. [there is a] prescription for each hour in the day; he takes all care from [her], and so she feels basely

Soon, Joni's art was breathtaking. People could hardly believe that she drew it with her mouth. She realized that this was God's plan for her. She was no longer depressed. She understood that her quadriplegia was not an accident, and that God used it to draw her closer to Him. She began signing her artwork with Joni PLT, which stood for Praise the Lord.

John, the narrator’s controlling, but loving, husband represents the atypical man of the time. He wants his wife to get better and to be able to fill the role of the perfect wife that society expected from her. John, being a doctor, did not quite believe that her mental illness was out of her control and insisted on

The book “On My Own Two Feet” by Amy Purdy and Michelle Burford is one the bestselling book that has sold millions of copies all over the U.S. This book is about how nineteen year old Amy Purdy contracted bacterial meningitis and had less than two percent of survival. While Amy was dealing through life and death, she was given a choice to live or to let go but if she decided to live there will live changing experiences that she will have to deal with throughout her life. Amy had decided to live. The tough part was she had to get her legs amputated.

Every individual person has their own way of finding comfort in difficult situations. From finding comfort in simple things like eating a cupcake to harmful and unhealthy ways like self-harm. As readers read through Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy, they witness the cruelty and pain Lucy goes through as she gets treated for her cancer and how it drastically changes her appearance and affects her whole life. When Lucy was young, before she was diagnosed with cancer, her comfort was being an excellent tomboy because she was a terrible athlete but a good gamer for casual and daring games. However, that all changed when her treatment for cancer started. Ever since then, Lucy’s life became full of pain, and she withstood that pain by taking comfort in certain things.

Disabilities within the characters of “The Life You Save May be Your Own” by Flanner O’Connor

When I was nine years old, my dad had an accident that caused him to become paraplegic. As years passed, my father’s physical state went from paraplegic to quadriplegic. I felt alone and fell into depression as each year passed because there was never a sign of hope. I didn’t want to upset my mother by telling her that I might be depressed. So I took on myself to find a way. Since I was young and stupid, the only way I found was religion. So, I became religious hoping that my dad would become better if I prayed. However, my mother took this the wrong way, assuming I wanted to get married. In one week my parents found a guy in Pakistan. My parents took advantage of my religious phase by knowing that in our religion girls have to obey their

The quadriplegic family that miraculously walks on all fours was first introduced in the early 2000’s by Turkish evolutionary biologist, Uner Tan. It is difficult to fathom there is one human let alone multiple family that are mobile by means of all their limbs. The family that houses these quadriplegic miracles are 19 children strong, 5 of those children are the focus of our attention.

Reading this work offers readers a front row seat to the very personal, experiences, and self-reflections of Julia during her journey. As she struggles to understand

I love getting to hear and know people better for who that are and everything about their lives as I can. What I believe will help me respond to my vocation of holiness is by still focusing on other’s needs even when I am not in a good place. It is easy for me to want to focus on my compelling situation if its something thats throwing my life off balance, but by continuing to comfort and learn about other while I can’t do the same for myself will allow me to not only grow closer to God and holiness, but to help me escape from my issues at that time as well. To model Chiara dealing with her osteosarcoma but caring for others is what I have chosen to take closest to my heart from this

A woman name Kimberly Guillory struggles with the thought of facing tomorrow. Waking up and facing another day can be very hard to deal with at times. The uncertainty of the day leaves her discourage and having the urge to give up. Most days Kimberly feels weary, hopeless, not motivated, unwanted and having self-esteem issues. She was given a special bracelet from one of the ministers at her church with the words I Belong on it. Some days she would wear it and some days she would not. One particular day as Kimberly was going through a tough time getting out of her bed because she know she has to face another day of endless battles, Kimberly looked down at her wrist and saw the bracelet that she still had on from the day before, and

The bodily pain symbolizes the suffering you may go through to truly “feel” God’s love for you. The writing of Teresa’s vision communicates to the readers in a way that intensifies your emotion towards her