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Created: 10/24 12:47 pm
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True Story:
Morris Goodman:
My story begins on March 10, 1981. This day really changed my whole life. It was a day I'll never forget. I crashed an airplane. I ended up in the hospital completely paralyzed. My spinal cord was crushed, I broke the first and second cervical vertebrae, my swallowing reflex was destroyed, I couldn't eat or drink, my diaphragm was destroyed, I couldn't breath. All I could do was blink my eyes. The doctors, of course, said i'd be a vegetable the rest of my life. All I'd be able to do is blink my eyes. That's the picture they saw of me, but it didn't matter what they thought. The main thing was what I thought. I pictured myself being a normal person again, walking out of that hospital.
The only thing I had to work with in the hospital was my mind, and once you have your mind, you can put things back together again.
I was hooked to a respirator and they said i'd never breathe on my own again because my diaphragm was destroyed. But a little voice kept saying to me "Breath deeply, breath deeply." and finally I was weaned from it. They were at a loss for an explanation. I could not afford to allow anything to come into my mind that would distract me from my goal or from my vision.
I had set a goal to walk out of that hospital on Christmas. And I did. I walked out of the hospital on my own two feet. They said it could'nt be done. Thats a day I will never forget.
For the people who are sitting out there right now and are hurting, if I wanted to sum up my life and sum up for the people what they can do in life, I would sum it up in six words: "Man becomes what he thinks about."
Morris Goodman is known as "The Miracle Man."
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