Buff Bagwell

What I said out loud to the two men that I was trying to console

that were crying over my paralyzed body, I said, hey guys, I can go to schools just like Christopher Reeves does.

And I can talk to schools.

Now, brother, you find me a guy

that's laying paralyzed, that finds some positivity in that to say, I'm going to go to schools.

And I don't know where that came from, except it came from inside my body.

But the moment I said that, Danny Young, our trainer, goes, your left hand is moving.

I believe with all of my heart, and I didn't know this at the time, I know it now when I tell it.

that I believe in my heart that because I was positive about the situation, I believe God gave me my body back.

That's what I believe, all my heart.

And I didn't know it at the time, but that's what I know now.

That's what I believe now.

And then I can't look up because I'm paralyzed, but I started moving my hand and he said, it's still moving.

I said, okay.

So I remember it feeling like hot water coming up and then hot water on this leg and then hot water on this leg, hot water this arm.

But if you watch close on the camera that's going on, you'll see me doing this.

And I go at one junction, I go,

And what I was doing is I was feeling if I could feel my chest.

And I couldn't.

I couldn't feel it.