Lucky? His was one of the biggest leaps from top-of-the-world
film star to wheelchair-bound-veggie in entertainment history. I
think his will to survive and recover were wonderful; OTOH he
gave millions of spinal cord injury victims false hope that
medical breakthroughs were right on the doorstep. They aren't.

Rick

Rick,
I think you're wrong there. He worked and regained feeling in many parts of
his body and I seem to remember was worked on with an op to rejoin his nerve
endings in a pioneering treatment ?

HTG