“It wasn’t so much that I was worried. I really didn’t know if I could. I wondered if I would get strong enough, whether the surgery would succeed. It was no fun, but I thought to myself throughout, 'I don’t know anyone who gets through life without having to solve something’, and I was always the luckiest guy I knew. And even though a spinal cord injury is tough, what I’m learning and what I’m involved in as a result is likely to be better for me in the long run than if I had just carried on as before.”