5k, Ballet, and a Spinal Cord Injury Quotes

“If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose" -Bishop T.D. Jakes”
― Jennifer Starzec, 5k, Ballet, and a Spinal Cord Injury

“Dancing with a spinal cord injury is a challenge like no other, but I aspired to prove to myself that I could still be phenomenal dancer even with an SCI”
― Sarah Todd Hammer, 5k, Ballet, and a Spinal Cord Injury

“As I sat up I turned my head to the side, but immediately straightened it again when I felt a sharp pain shoot through my neck.”
― Jennifer Starzec, 5k, Ballet, and a Spinal Cord Injury

“Before I knew it, I was once again being whisked down the hallways at the new hospital into an even bigger room, one that, unbeknownst to me, would be my home for what would feel like a long, long time.”
― Jennifer Starzec, 5k, Ballet, and a Spinal Cord Injury

“Before I knew it, I was racing across the highway. For the first time in my life, I didn’t know what to think.”
― Sarah Todd Hammer, 5k, Ballet, and a Spinal Cord Injury

“I was really happy because the doctor had said I would be better by then, and I was ready for this terrible nightmare to be over.”
― Sarah Todd Hammer, 5k, Ballet, and a Spinal Cord Injury

“A blur. That’s what it felt like to me”
― Jennifer Starzec, 5k, Ballet, and a Spinal Cord Injury

“All of a sudden, my right hand was dead, unplugged, and my left was definitely not working right.”
― Jennifer Starzec, 5k, Ballet, and a Spinal Cord Injury

“When the doctors came in a little while later saying they thought they knew my diagnosis, I was afraid to know.”
― Sarah Todd Hammer, 5k, Ballet, and a Spinal Cord Injury

“Knowing that only minutes earlier I had walked to the car, my mom helped me out and stood me up in the parking lot. My legs collapsed. I could still move them, but I couldn’t walk.”
― Sarah Todd Hammer, 5k, Ballet, and a Spinal Cord Injury

“It seemed like an ordinary day, but little did I know that this wasn’t going to be a normal ballet class.”
― Sarah Todd Hammer, 5k, Ballet, and a Spinal Cord Injury

“But I had already fallen. Fallen into this deep, dark hole. I was trapped. Trapped in this nightmare.”
― Sarah Todd Hammer, 5k, Ballet, and a Spinal Cord Injury