I’m a mom or 8 children. On May 1, 2022 my husband and I received a call that our 19 yr. old son had been in motocross accident and was being medevacked to our local trauma hospital. After a short while, we received the news that Isaac had suffered a T12 burst fracture and a non-displaced L1 fracture. Over the next 3 days he underwent 2 surgeries and it was confirmed that Isaac was a paraplegic. We were told to prepare ourselves for him to never walk again.

After 20 days at UMC hospital in Las Vegas, he was transferred to Craig H. Neilsen in SLC, Utah for inpatient rehabilitation. It was there that I received information about the Mods 4 Quads and the High Fives Foundation from one of our sweet nurses. After a month of rehab, Isaac returned home with the ability of dressing himself and transferring from his manual wheelchair to any sitting surface. Our story is nothing short of miraculous. Over the next months, with Isaac’s radical determination and his great desire to prove the medical community wrong, all smothered in faith, he is now walking with one cane and has set a new goal of running 1 mile on the treadmill after breaking multiple barriers along the way. He has overcome so many obstacles and has faced all of them with his head high.

On the darkest days, we were crushed but not broken. We are excited to join this community with the hopes of finding encouragement, sharing our story of hope, finding new resources to help Isaac and our family on our journey of healing, and lastly to create healthy communication about spinal cord injuries and the impact on the victim, their family, friends, and community.