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3-time Paralympian Angela Madsen dies while rowing from L.A. to Honolulu
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| 03/27/2020
Posted on 06/27/2020 8:41:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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"In 1980, at her first Marine Corps basketball training session, she fell on the court and another player stepped on her back, rupturing two discs in her spine.[3] This in turn led Madsen to undergo surgery to her back, but a string of errors resulted in her suffering a L1 incomplete spinal cord injury and paraplegia.[4]
"The US military refused to pay for Madsen's medical bills following the accident, and, in the dispute that followed, Madsen lost her home and her marriage fell apart. She fell into depression and became homeless, living out of a storage locker in Disneyland."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Madsen#Spinal_injury_and_surgery
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posted on
06/27/2020 8:41:56 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
That is an absolutely tragic story. RIP.
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posted on
06/27/2020 8:45:59 PM PDT
by
leaning conservative
(snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
To: BenLurkin
How does one live out of a storage locker IN Disneyland?!
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posted on
06/27/2020 8:47:30 PM PDT
by
Skywise
To: BenLurkin
What a life story. And she made it almost half way to Hawaii. RIP
To: BenLurkin
Sad. Wonder if she got hung up on something during the bow anchor repair and drowned? I imagine she was tethered to the craft.
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posted on
06/27/2020 8:51:41 PM PDT
by
Dagnabitt
To: BenLurkin
so, didn’t Brewer & Shipley write a song about this called “One Row Over The Line, Sweet Jesus?”
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posted on
06/27/2020 8:53:35 PM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: Skywise
She obviously had her belonging there. She didn't sleep there.
Kind of like the saying of living out of your suitcase. Same concept.
To: BenLurkin
Wow, that is a sad story.
I do not understand how our military cannot pay for insurance that would have covered the hospital bills for an accident.
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posted on
06/27/2020 8:59:05 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: BenLurkin
Too bad she got taken in.
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posted on
06/27/2020 9:04:13 PM PDT
by
Revel
To: BenLurkin
Okay. I’ll have a beer for the occasion, because beer seems to be an effective diuretic.
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posted on
06/27/2020 9:04:57 PM PDT
by
familyop
( "Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy".)
To: BenLurkin
Okay. I’ll have a beer for the occasion, because beer seems to be an effective diuretic.
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posted on
06/27/2020 9:04:59 PM PDT
by
familyop
( "Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy".)
To: BenLurkin
Brought tears to my eyes. She definitely was a warrior.
I do know that whatever my purpose is in this life, my differently-abled, physically-challenged, broken-down, beaten-up body seems to be the vehicle required for me to achieve it.
I am purpose driven; I may suffer pain and not walk upright in this life, but when I go home, I will not suffer the walk through the gate. I can live with that. If I could go back and change things, I would not. It would be nice not to have to suffer so much pain but, hey, thats just the way it is.
In the beginning, I was angry. But now, I completely understand, Madsen wrote in her memoir Rowing Against the Wind.
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posted on
06/27/2020 9:08:05 PM PDT
by
peggybac
(Government is about force. It always has been about force.)
To: ConservativeMind
I do not understand how our military cannot pay for insurance that would have covered the hospital bills for an accident.
You only got one side of the story from that article.
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posted on
06/27/2020 9:09:50 PM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: BenLurkin
Every so often someone comes along and takes upon himself/herself an unbelievable, grueling challenge (e.g., scaling some mountain, walking/rowing/swimming some great distance, etc) and says, “I’m going to do X or die trying.” Unfortunately, the latter outcome occasionally happens.
To: BenLurkin
"The US military refused to pay for Madsen's medical bills following the accident, and, in the dispute that followed, Madsen lost her home and her marriage fell apart. She fell into depression and became homeless, living out of a storage locker in Disneyland." Something doesn't sound quite right.
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posted on
06/27/2020 9:11:32 PM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(Why do Democrats support terrorism?)
To: BenLurkin
Her basketball training session...?
Whut the fluck? You must mean BASIC TRAINING SESSION.
Wikipedia really say what you posted Ben?
To: Honest Nigerian
No. She was part of the Women's Marine Corp basketball team.
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posted on
06/27/2020 9:27:14 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Leave it to me to be holdin' the matches when the fire truck shows up & there's nobody else to blame)
To: familyop
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posted on
06/27/2020 9:30:01 PM PDT
by
leaning conservative
(snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear; Honest Nigerian
No. She was part of the Women's Marine Corp basketball team.6'1", so that makes sense.
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posted on
06/27/2020 9:30:23 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
To: BenLurkin
Possibly the victim of too many unrealistic hollywood movies.
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posted on
06/27/2020 9:44:06 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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