Did I qualify as quadriplegic?

[Spiderman]

Is there a such thing as being a temporary quadriplegic, and did I qualify?

I have had so many injuries and broken bones , that I could not crawl anywhere, (don't recall moving arms) was fed through a tube going into my stomach, could not talk , with tubes coming out of the throat.

I could silently pray and hope in God, Angels, friends in heaven, or could simply do nothing but vegetate in total hopeless misery. It took a while to even remember how I put myself there!

Hope none of you ever actually experience that, unless you are so old and dying that it is part of the normal process of dying , ( not from some traumatic injury).

I had no ability to communicate with people, not knowing sign language, and you probably have no idea how annoying it is having tubes chronically coming out your throat and mouth.

But simply could not move, not even wheel myself around in a wheelchair.

Does that qualify as being quadriplegic temporarily?

Was numb in some areas, but others were extremely painful, so if that is what some people are going through in Ukraine and Yemen, some in worse agony than that, I can't help but feel rage at a God who would create creatures who would suffer that kind of excruciating torture and agony!

But it is temporary, and they may have great reward for the cross they carry. When the rich man died in Christ's parable, Abraham told the rich man, "you had good things in this life. Abraham had evil things. Now Abraham is consoled and comforted, and you suffer"!

That parable really kind of glorifies suffering terrible things in this life, for greater reward in the next.

At the same time I praise my creator, grateful to walk and now even run short distances.

Used to run twelve miles straight without stopping, and will never long distance run again, unless inevitable knee replacement surgery goes really well or something!

But how about we all be truly grateful, that we can walk, if you can. The best thing I can take from those months confined to a wheelchair is: THE ABILITY TO WALK IS EXTREMELY UNDERATED and super underappreciated!

 

[Subduction Zone]

What did you do to yourself? You have to be more careful or next time you might be a quadriplegic for real.

 

[Spiderman]

What did you do to yourself? You have to be more careful or next time you might be a quadriplegic for real.

I have shared at this forum that in 2017, my true love turned down my marriage proposal, so I found a cliff next to a building, got on top of the building, then: weeeeeeeeeeee!!! watched the ground grow closer, closer, said a prayer, and lights out!

was unconscious until someone found me, I slept until after they cut off all my clothing, did surgery in multiple places, put metal and screws into multiple bones, and multiple of the fractures cannot be operated on for fear of cutting near the spinal chord, or removing dwindling cartilage to fix the torn meniscus's in the fractured knees.

Operating on certain of the fractures will do more harm than good, so I have to accept that I now am what I am.

Nothing else could make me throw myself off a building like that, with the exception of being in love with a woman, and it not being requited, combined with shame of being a poor fool with drug use problems at that time.

Love can cause us to act crazy.

I actually continued having her as an acquaintance , seeing her multiple times a week for another two years after the jump, until I told her she was the reason I jumped off the building, and our relationship turned into a nightmare.

There were a few mild kisses but we never even left the friendship zone. I just adored her, and the etymology of her name, and some coincidences she seemed to cause, felt paranormal, and I have a mind that fixates , intensely obsessed on all sorts of topics, but I never ever lusted after her.

But she doesn't know that, and it is a sick world, and I had a history of insanity, so she had to be responsible and establish boundaries, and I thought it would be better for her, myself, and society if I was a corpse and a ghost.

I never loved some one a fraction of my love for her. I still do and it is still torture.

I have also laid down in front of an oncoming train in the middle of the night and it stopped. I have contemplated poison, hanging, or shooting myself, but I think the risk of surviving with more pain and damage to body and mind is enough to scare me into not trying it.

As you warned, I don't want to be in a wheelchair for life, or more damaged mentally and physically!

Women are actually a big motive men give for killing themselves, and men are four times more likely to die of suicide than women, but I don't think she did anything wrong.

 

[NArdas]

Your state laws will tell you that

 

[Spiderman]

Your state laws will tell you that

Yes, I understand I didn't qualify, but I was wondering if a person can be a temporary quadriplegic. Bottom line is, I couldn't move or even talk.