... and his brothers all played several sports, including hockey, baseball and soccer. Through high school, Terry also participated in cross country running and basketball. Terry and his siblings were always taught to work hard and earn the things that were important to them. Around the age of 9 ... High School with straight A's, except for a B in English. He took kinesiology at the Simon Fraser University, where he also played on the basketball team. Finding Cancer On November 12, 1976, Terry ran into the back of a half-ton truck while watching the construction of a bridge near ... wreck...

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... 17 year old girl when she got into a near fatal car accident. She was left paralyzed from the waist down. She now must use a wheelchair. Now it is ten years later and Anna is 27 years old. She has many healthy behaviors such as her job, socializing, and exercising that ... well-being. One healthy physical behavior is a daily outside "walk." She goes out in her wheelchair and wheels around for several miles each day. This keeps her physical health up by having to roll her wheelchair. It gives her upper body strength. This behavior also affects her mental/emotional health by clearing ... ...

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... in resources and capital should have more money, much in the same way Michael Jordan has a gift for basketball, and should have a more heightened opportunity to become professional and make millions of dollars than say, some five foot tall fat guy in a wheelchair. This crude metaphor is just to illustrate that one nation should not sacrifice its potential simply because it lessens ... the opportunities for another weaker nation. All things should be relative. The five foot tall fat guy in a wheelchair might dominate in the Special Olympics, and perhaps that's where he belongs. However, ...

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... , killing him in less than five minutes. The doctors offered to surgically remove my son's spleen, so it will give him a chance to live until his early twenties, but in a wheelchair because this disease has restricted all of Sergey's physical activities. I decided to leave the spleen in place; therefore, the doctors decided that Sergey's physical activity has to be restricted: he ... can't play football and basketball and he is not supposed to run, jump or ride a bike. For me it was too impossible to explain to a five-year old why he couldn't do it any more ... ...

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... as the protagonist and Victor as the antagonist but it doesn't stay that way throughout the movie. We see David at first as a hero of sorts, the star on his wheelchair basketball team in the Special Olympics, a cop who was paralyzed in the line of duty and a man who has his own charity house set up for underprivileged children. Victor on the ... ...

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... real food resulted in massive weight loss. Not long after waking from the coma, we were all visiting with him in the hospital and he and his brother, were watching a basketball game. He told us that he was the point guard for the Chicago Bulls but was cut because Michael Jordan was jealous of him. At the time he believed this ... function. As he got better, it was time to see how much he could grow. Now, it was time to learn physical therapy. This is where he learned to use a wheelchair, a 4 prong cane, a wooden cane and finally walking on his own. He never wanted to quit. This was inst...

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