paraplegic

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• She was a paraplegic, but she still held a job, most of the money from which her father used for beer.
• ‘It is a bike you wear,’ says Bob Vogel, 40, a paraplegic hang-glider pilot who has owned a One-Off for nearly two years.
• The case was brought by a paraplegic who could not make a court date due to lack of elevator access.
• A passenger was injured so badly he will be paraplegic for the rest of his life.
• Being paraplegic isn't contagious.
• In perhaps the most extraordinary case of this kind, Jim Montgomery, a paraplegic immobilized from the waist down, who smoked marijuana to relieve muscle spasms, was arrested in Sayre, Oklahoma, when sheriffs found two ounces of pot in the pouch on the back of his wheelchair. Reefer Madness
• Think of a husband caring for a wife with Alzheimer's, or a mother caring for an adult child rendered paraplegic in a car accident.
• Competition is broken into paraplegic, quadriplegic, junior mixed and a Sunday road race.
• Last year rescue calls included a total of four broken backs, with two paraplegic cases and one quadriplegic case.
• The documentary chronicles the intense rivalry between the US and Canadian paraplegic rugby teams.