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"No one ever thinks about things like this," Marks said. "I'd see someone in a wheelchair (before) and I wouldn't even think how'd they get there, what happened. No one ever expects it. It's always what you least expect."
"Right after I fell to the floor, I tried to get up right away because I really didn't know what happened right away. Then when I sat up, I could only sit up so far and then I went to get up and I couldn't. I just fell back down. I remember saying 'I'm paralyzed' and I just didn't try to move, just figured to wait for the doctors.""A doctor came in and said, 'Why do you have such high spirits?' I said, 'Well, I still want to walk one day.' And he's, 'Well, no one's told you?' 'What?' 'Well, there's a 99 per cent chance you won't.' "See the full content of this document
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No Choice but to Take What Life's Given Him
Left paralyzed by a bullet, young man looks forward
Scott Marks spends his days in a wheelchair, trying to figure out how to live the rest of his life.On New Year's Day, Marks, then 20, was shot by a roommate believed to suffer from...See the full content of this document
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