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 INJURY
REPORTDATE:
July 2, 1994
TIME: 5:00 AM
WHERE: Marshall, TEXAS
PATIENT: 17 YEAR OLD FEMALE, HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE
FACTORS: DRUNK DRIVING
DIAGNOSIS: T-12/L1 SPINAL CORD INJURY
INITIAL PROGNOSIS: DEATH, PARALYZED
Jaime Age 17
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| Jaime works with Think First because,
"I‘m old enough to know better now and still young enough to make a
difference in today‘s teens." |
 Jaime's
new truck before the crash |
 Jaime's
new truck after the crash.
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Jaime is a young adult who graduated from
East Texas Baptist University in Marshall, TX with a degree in behavioral
sciences. She's lived in Marshall since 1980 and graduated from high school in
May 1994. The following July, at the age of seventeen, she sustained a spinal
cord injury in a car crash leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. Some might
say that her young, promising life had halted, but to hear her tell it, she's
doing more now to benefit herself and others than ever before. The whirlwind of
recovery, therapy, and reintroduction to the able-bodied world has made her life
before July 1994 unparalleled to her innovative new way of life.
During her stay in a Dallas rehabilitation
center, she was introduced to Shorty Powers, the national director and founder
of
P.O.I.N.T. (Paraplegics On Independent Nature Trips). She is now the
director of P.O.I.N.T.'s Piney Woods Chapter which includes the Ark-La-Tex.
P.O.I.N.T. is a non-profit organization designed to involve the area's
physically challenged in any and all adaptive sporting events, and to get them
into nature's environment. Through P.O.I.N.T., Jaime has enjoyed fishing,
boating, kayaking, water-skiing, tubing, horseback riding, four-wheeling, snow
skiing, and always meeting interesting people.
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Jaime is now a proud
mother of one and half year old Lauren. She continues to speak to teens
for Think First and is a stay at home mom.
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