Jim Harris

Now that I was kind of housebound, I was like, oh, maybe we're more compatible now than we were before. And then I think after some reflection, we both came to the conclusion that our initial decision to separate was probably still for the best.

Yeah, I would sit on the ground, but then getting back up off the ground was a little bit of a struggle. It wasn't until after spinal cord injury that I was like, I have no idea how I used to stand up off the ground. This is something I'd never really paid attention to. But the way I had learned to stand up was sort of like...

Yeah, I would sit on the ground, but then getting back up off the ground was a little bit of a struggle. It wasn't until after spinal cord injury that I was like, I have no idea how I used to stand up off the ground. This is something I'd never really paid attention to. But the way I had learned to stand up was sort of like...

Yeah, I would sit on the ground, but then getting back up off the ground was a little bit of a struggle. It wasn't until after spinal cord injury that I was like, I have no idea how I used to stand up off the ground. This is something I'd never really paid attention to. But the way I had learned to stand up was sort of like...

being on all fours and pushing my butt up towards the sky and getting in kind of a downward dog position and then slowly walking my hands back one at a time towards my feet until I was sort of bent over and then grabbing onto Walker or a person and standing the rest of the way upright.

being on all fours and pushing my butt up towards the sky and getting in kind of a downward dog position and then slowly walking my hands back one at a time towards my feet until I was sort of bent over and then grabbing onto Walker or a person and standing the rest of the way upright.

being on all fours and pushing my butt up towards the sky and getting in kind of a downward dog position and then slowly walking my hands back one at a time towards my feet until I was sort of bent over and then grabbing onto Walker or a person and standing the rest of the way upright.

I remember trying to like have this dialogue with my body, which was something that I had become really familiar with in that spinal cord state of kind of like, negotiating with appendages and muscles that felt like they were part of me, but also that I didn't really have full agency. And there was like a, like, hey leg, can you do this thing? Can you help me?

I remember trying to like have this dialogue with my body, which was something that I had become really familiar with in that spinal cord state of kind of like, negotiating with appendages and muscles that felt like they were part of me, but also that I didn't really have full agency. And there was like a, like, hey leg, can you do this thing? Can you help me?

I remember trying to like have this dialogue with my body, which was something that I had become really familiar with in that spinal cord state of kind of like, negotiating with appendages and muscles that felt like they were part of me, but also that I didn't really have full agency. And there was like a, like, hey leg, can you do this thing? Can you help me?

Can you, let's all do this together now. And movement through spinal cord injury began feeling like a lot more of a team effort versus like whatever the center of my consciousness is extending out to like my fingertips and toes. And so I remember being like, okay, okay, muscles, can we take a deep breath and can we unlock, can we stop doing that?

Can you, let's all do this together now. And movement through spinal cord injury began feeling like a lot more of a team effort versus like whatever the center of my consciousness is extending out to like my fingertips and toes. And so I remember being like, okay, okay, muscles, can we take a deep breath and can we unlock, can we stop doing that?

Can you, let's all do this together now. And movement through spinal cord injury began feeling like a lot more of a team effort versus like whatever the center of my consciousness is extending out to like my fingertips and toes. And so I remember being like, okay, okay, muscles, can we take a deep breath and can we unlock, can we stop doing that?

And as a part of that, I was kind of trying to shuffle my feet and being able to shift body weight and flex and unflex muscles voluntarily was a way to stop these spasms from happening, to kind of stop this sort of muscle vibration sort of pattern.

And as a part of that, I was kind of trying to shuffle my feet and being able to shift body weight and flex and unflex muscles voluntarily was a way to stop these spasms from happening, to kind of stop this sort of muscle vibration sort of pattern.

And as a part of that, I was kind of trying to shuffle my feet and being able to shift body weight and flex and unflex muscles voluntarily was a way to stop these spasms from happening, to kind of stop this sort of muscle vibration sort of pattern.

And in that process, all of a sudden I realized there were muscles that had not worked since the time of my accident that all of a sudden I could voluntarily control.

And in that process, all of a sudden I realized there were muscles that had not worked since the time of my accident that all of a sudden I could voluntarily control.

And in that process, all of a sudden I realized there were muscles that had not worked since the time of my accident that all of a sudden I could voluntarily control.

It was mysterious, and it wasn't really even the center of the attention at the time because there was, like, this amazing sunset happening. There was a headlining act playing, like, the crescendo of their set. There's, like, thousands of people around. Like, there was, like, a lot of stimulus overload happening, right? Yeah. But I do remember having conversations about it, like,