Journey to Well: Learning to Live After Spinal Cord Injury
by Margie Williams
In July 1991, Margie Williams' life was changed in an instant when she sustained a serious spinal cord injury in the crash of a small private plane. In 1997, she published a book for the spinal-cord-injury community describing her accident and her long and arduous climb back into life -- redefining her concept of "well" along the way. You will be inspired as you read of her resilient spirit -- the vital life force accessible within each of us -- that sustained her through the darkest chapters of her lifetime
Journey to Well was written to assist in increasing public awareness of the injury that claims over 11,000 victims each year in this country alone. Statistics show that for each injury survivor, the lives of an average of three others will be changed dramatically forever. This book offers encouragement to all of them.
The author's own words best describe the background of this remarkable book and her hopes for its readers:
"I wasn't ready for this. I was married to the perfect husband for me; my children were grown; I lived in a wonderful home with exceptional neighbors. I was busy, productive and very happy. I was a peace with my life ... then the crash.
"It is my hope that this story will speak to the hidden concerns of someone whose life has been touched by spinal cord injury, or one who simply needs more clarity about the injury and life thereafter. Even more, however, my words are for the injured, longing, desperate individual who feels the universe has dealt him or her the lowest of blows -- whose life seems to be over because it can never be the same as before. It is for him, for her that I offer this work.
"And for that selfsame person in me ..."
