I'm a C7 incomplete quad as of June 2009. Everything I can do falls under the "just" catagory, meaning I can do it, JUST ! I can stand & walk but only for a couple of minutes with forearm crutches. I have full body sensation and function, again "just", but it's all pretty badly messed up. Dull in places, hyper sensative in others and I really can't perceive temperature from the shoulders down although from inside, I feel like I'm on fire, especially my legs. If I put my hand on my leg to see if my leg was actually hot or cold on the outside, I couldn't tell you by what I can feel with my hands. I set the water temp in the shower by what I can stand on my head or face as that's the only part of me I can accurately sense temperature. Any sudden exertion like a cough or a sneeze can start my hands shaking, particularly the right and the harder I try to do something or strain to reach something, the less control I have of my hands as they just lock up. If I don't concentrate on what my hands are doing I will drop things. Bladder and bowels works but its really knife edge stuff. By the time I become aware of the need to go, I have very little time to make it so I try to stay in front of that as much as possible. I have the usual nerve pain and spasming issues that come with a spinal injury but I live independantly.

Music, computers, reading, movies & intelligent conversation.

Pretty much anything except rap, hiphop or what they call R&B these days. I don't consider either of these to be music.

Anything that is well made and acted.

Bones, Castle, NCIS, Big Bang Theory, documentaries. I won't watch "reality TV" as it's generally rubbish.

I'll have to think about that and come back to it.

Anyone who when life throws them a challenge, (like becoming disabled), just gets on with it the best they can and doesn't adopt a "victim" mentality. You don't have to perform some amazing feat of strength, courage or endurance in the face of adversity or in spite of your disablity to impress me, just get on with your life, do whatever you can and try to be as happy and at peace with yourself as possible.