Wesley Huff

So it's called acute transverse myelitis.

Although I've been told recently that there's a change in the name of the diagnosis.

But...

Essentially, transverse myelitis is not all that rare.

But acute, that acute in terms of the quickness of it, I had fallen asleep, a nap, for probably no more than 30 minutes.

And when I woke up, I was paralyzed.

So it was the quickness of the actual damage that was done to my spinal cord that was –

The catalyst for in the diagnosis saying that the chances of me walking again were very low.

Yeah.

One month to the day.

So, in fact, the anniversary, 23-year anniversary was recently because it was in February 8th.

I woke up on a Saturday morning, got out of bed, and walked over to my wheelchair.

Did this change your perspective on God, Christianity, religion?

It did in some ways.

I mean, I don't know how it couldn't.

It definitely, to have medical professionals tell me, you're probably going to be a paraplegic for the rest of your life.

Like, this is what you need to kind of accept and get used to, to the exact same medical professionals.

You know, the pediatric neurologists saying, we don't know why you're walking.

That had to have an impact on me in that I think I truly believe I was healed in that it was the doctors who used the word miracle because they said that they couldn't medically explain why there was no more damage on my spinal cord, why I was walking with like not even any like atrophy or anything.

However, I still needed to figure some of the more intellectual questions out of my head when I was a teenager.