I need your help

Jul 24, 2009 17 Comments by admin

My name is Ashley Thomson, I am 28 years old. In July 2000 I was involved in an unfortunate accident where i was slammed upside-down onto my neck fracturing my C5/C6 vertebrae resulting in tetraplegia (that is no movement from the chest down). My injury is incomplete which means my spinal cord is not severed. [...]

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Jul 23, 2009 No Comments by admin

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About Ashley

Jul 08, 2010 No Comments by admin
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Rounding up round 2

May 06, 2010 9 Comments

How’s it going, Well we’ve come to the end of Round 2 and now that I think about it its gone really quickly. Has this trip brought me huge changes? Not huge but there have definitely been some. A massive improvment has been made in my walking with calipers. The other day I walked approx [...]

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Truckin along

Apr 20, 2010 8 Comments

Namaste everyone, Oh my god it is so hot here now. The temperature is averaging around 43° which kind of makes it hard to go out and do stuff so cabin fever is very present during the day. The Lumbar Puncture went okay, I was only crook for a couple of days but im sweet [...]

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News from Ash

Apr 14, 2010 7 Comments

Hows’it people! My apologies for the delay in updates. Time is flying by here, I’ve had 3 procedures in 2 weeks. A Epidural, DSM (Deep Spinal Muscle), and a Brachial Plexus (in the armpit). All have been quick and relatively painless. So far im feeling more deep muscle sensation in my right leg, I can [...]

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Easter in Delhi

Apr 07, 2010 9 Comments

Well we’re back and all settled in, ready for round two..it almost feels like we never left!  My first procedure was on Monday, an epidural injection just below the injury site. I was a little nervous but it all went well. Ive been told that my doses of Stem Cells will be increased this trip [...]

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Ash’s trike

Mar 21, 2010 3 Comments

As promised here are some pics of my new toy. This was all made possible by my good friend Paul Webster (Handy Cycles NZ) who engineered the trike and SLS security who donated the money to pay for the cost of materials in building it. Big thanks to both of them, and to Signsation for [...]

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Straight into it!

Feb 09, 2010 6 Comments

Hows it going guys, Sorry its been a while since I’ve updated you,  I hope you all had an awesome Christmas break. I’ve been back home now for about 6 weeks and its been really nice but the settling in period is well finished and I’ve started back into a strict regime of excercise and [...]

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