Articles - Recreation en-us http://www.thescizone.com/news N/A http://www.thescizone.com/news michael@thescizone.com 20 http://www.thescizone.com/news/articles/1678/1/Paraplegic-balloon-pilot-hasnt-let-injury-ground-him/1.html Michael Glen hasn't let a disability tether his dreams. Like his father, Glen wanted to be a hot air balloon pilot. But after a car accident left him paralyzed with a spinal cord injury, the Federal Aviation Administration said no to a license because he was in a wheelchair."I wouldn't take no for an answer," Glen said. "When the FAA denied me, I decided to go out and prove I could." michael@thescizone.com (Michael Feger) Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.thescizone.com/news/articles/1657/1/Special-needs-players-showcase-their-shots/1.html The sun was shining, the balls were flying and the chairs were rolling yesterday at the Fanshawe Golf Course Parkside Nine. It was the eighth annual Madame Lise Thibault Golf Tournament, a three-person-per-team golf scramble for people with disabilities. The city donates the course -- the first in North America for people with disabilities -- for the day, Olizarevitch said. The course is flat and the greens are built on firm soil to allow a wheelchair to drive over them, he said. "There's no sand traps, no water, all on a 10-acre parcel of land." michael@thescizone.com (Michael Feger) Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.thescizone.com/news/articles/1636/1/Wave-Broke-Modestans-Neck-Miracles-Put-Him-Back-on-His-Feet/1.html The fog had burned off, the sand at Pismo Beach was beginning to sizzle and Modesto Realtor Fred Miller finally was hot enough to join his teenage daughters in the surf. It was July 25, 2007, the second day in the family's annual weeklong pilgrimage to Pismo, a trip they had been taking for nearly 20 years. Miller's wife, Leanne, stayed on the beach while Miller and his brother-in-law, Phil Morino of Modesto, took their boogie boards into the ocean. Two of the Millers' daughters, Natalie and Jacqueline, then 17 and 19, had been surfing for a few hours. michael@thescizone.com (Michael Feger) Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.thescizone.com/news/articles/1559/1/West-Seattle-native-fights-back-from-bizarre-surfing-injury/1.html Addie is fighting to get back to a normal life, after the accident in Hawaii on March 19: “She and her 3 college roommates signed up for a surfing lesson and she was out on the board for the first time. She came out of the water relatively soon, having experienced no trouble whatsoever. She felt a little weird on her way up the beach, but didn’t want to interrupt her friends’ lesson, so she just sat there trying to figure out if she was coming down with something or what. Hours later, she had her friend’s take her to a clinic. She started to feel numb in her toes. When she called her mom for insurance info and told her about the numbness, her mom told her to get straight to a hospital. Later that afternoon, the hospital called Seattle to tell mom that Addie had a non-traumatic surfing injury known as ‘Surfer’s Myelopathy’ that affects the spinal cord, resulting in paralysis.” michael@thescizone.com (Michael Feger) Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.thescizone.com/news/articles/1525/1/Paralysed-teenager-to-making-skiing-history/1.html A teenager from Northampton who is paralysed from the neck down is planning to make history by becoming the first child on a ventilator to go skiing. Derry Felton, 15, who has a spinal cord injury, is hoping to go on a trip of a lifetime - a one-week holiday in Sweden.To make his dream come true, his mother Tracey is appealing to Chronicle & Echo readers to help pay for the trip, which will cost more than £7,000, as Derry, who needs constant care, will require a team of four carers to go with him. michael@thescizone.com (Michael Feger) Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.thescizone.com/news/articles/1332/1/Man-has-his-neck-broken-by-falling-fan-docs-say-hes-lucky-to-be-alive/1.html A Seattle area teacher suffered a broken neck when a raucous fan at Yankee Stadium tumbled several rows and landed on his neck - as his wife and son watched in horror. Doctors said teacher Paul Robinson is lucky he wasn't paralyzed or even killed. Robinson, 53, was in the top tier at the Stadium with his wife, Kathy, and 13-year-old son, John, during the Yankees' 12-0 blowout against the Los Angeles Angels last Sunday when the mystery fan's fall snapped Robinson's head forward so hard it broke the vertebrae below the skull. michael@thescizone.com (Michael Feger) Sat, 14 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.thescizone.com/news/articles/1308/1/Group-promotes-outdoor-adventures-for-the-disabled/1.html Jackie Bartels of Euless, a board member and spokeswoman for the organization, said that most sports have handicapped counterparts, but that many disabled people aren't aware of such options.After suffering a spinal cord injury at 13, Bartels was encouraged by a motivational speaker to play wheelchair tennis, which she didn't know existed then. She later attended the University of Texas at Arlington on a tennis scholarship."People don't know where to go or what to do," said Bartels, 23, who was crowned Ms. Wheelchair Texas this year. "We want people with physical disabilities to know that they can be physically and socially active." michael@thescizone.com (Michael Feger) Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.thescizone.com/news/articles/1274/1/Sharing-a-hard-lesson/1.html Play it safe, paralysis victim saysIt was close to midnight on a hot June night in 1992 when Eric Wildt dived into a friend's in-ground swimming pool.His head hit the bottom, and he broke his neck.That night was the last time Wildt walked; the last time he stood on his own; the last time he could clasp a friend's hand. For a long time, he thought it would be the last time he smiled.That one late-night dive turned Wildt into a quadriplegic at age 17. michael@thescizone.com (Michael Feger) Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.thescizone.com/news/articles/1230/1/Adventurers-next-step-is-to-take-his-first-step/1.html Out of hospital and extraordinarily positive, Michael D'Amelio has a joke with his girlfriend, Shennae Searle.It was November when they got to Interlaken. And that is when everything changed. Michael D'Amelio, 25, and his girlfriend Shennae Searle, 27, each paid 500 Swiss francs and boarded a sky-diving helicopter with nervous excitement. When it was time to jump, he went first, in tandem with an instructor. Within a minute, she followed. The free fall was fantastic. Then it was time to land. michael@thescizone.com (Michael Feger) Sat, 19 May 2007 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.thescizone.com/news/articles/1201/1/Climber-survives-120ft-mountain-fall-after-tourists-spot-him-through-telescope/1.html Climber Michael Garton's life was saved by a man with a telescope after he survived a fall down a sheer rock face on a perilous Norwegian mountain. Michael was two days into a solo climb to scale the notorious 3,600-feet Troll Wall , the tallest vertical rock face in Europe, when a piece of loose rock gave way and he fell 120 feet onto a sloping ledge still attached to his rope. His neck was broken as he plunged leaving him paralysed and he lay motionless for ten hours unable to move and slowly freezing to death. michael@thescizone.com (Michael Feger) Mon, 07 May 2007 00:00:00 -0400