Hi, my name is Netta and i'm a c-4/5 quad from Israel. I was struck down
with Acute TM on November 25th, 1994, at the age of 15.

It all started one Friday afternoon, after i came back from school.

After launch, i suddenly started to feel a terrible sharp pain in my
upper back (behind the shoulders).
Gradually, but quite fast-- in less than one hour-- i lost sensation +
ability to move my hands and finally my legs.  My mother immediately
called an ambulance which took me to the hospital. I was taken to the IC

department and was diagnosed after 10 days (!) with Acute TM at c-3. Of
course i was ventilated...
After 3 months, more or less, i saw the first improvement- my left arm
started to move. Gradually in the next 1.5 years i got rid of the vent
due to hard work in exercising my breathing muscles.
After spending more than 2.5 years in the rehab. hospital, we all had to
move to a new house, and that included leaving Jerusalem, in order to be
geographically closer to our family. : 0 (
Today, i still have no sensation from the shoulders down, including my
arms (i move the left arm without feeling it). I'm driving a motorized
wheel-chair, paint & write with my mouth, swim(!) with my head and
shoulders movements and do things that people are not supposed to be
able to do in my physical condition.  I'm very optimistic as for my
condition in the future and try to do the maximum i can do to make my
life as normal as possible.
I don't know what will happen with me and when, though, but since the
onset i have only improved. I also know that others with TM have had
improvements in years, until now.

If you have any questions to ask me (or anything else to say), please
feel free to Email me at:    neti1gn(AT)netvision.net.il

sincerely ,
Netta.