Since I was I child I knew I was here to do something HUGE. I never imagined it would be defying the medical community and teaching myself how to walk again. But I'm doing it, and it is awesome!!!!!

Jennifer McCallson I began defying gravity at the age of 5 on the monkey bars at school. I expressed my love of flight through gymnastics classes in elementary school and college competitive cheerleading when I was older. While cheerleading, my gymnastic abilities increased exponentially. I learned back handsprings, back flips, laid out back flips, and many more aerial maneuvers. I loved it so much that I tumbled everywhere there was grass, and even in my living room! Over and over I tumbled, until I could perform the gymnastics on cue. To this day, I still feel like I am flying when I think about cheerleading and gymnastics. This exhilaration is what drives me today.

While instructing at a high school cheerleading camp I decided to take flight. Towards the end of the camp there was a lull in the crowd's energy, so I decided to gain their attention by performing a simple round-off back handspring. I could have done it blindfolded. I saw a clearing in between instructors. I looked left. Clear. I looked right. Clear. I took a step and hurdled forward. First my hands connected with the ground, then my feet. I arched backwards and sprung onto my hands. As my feet were about to touch the ground I noticed something out of the corner of my eye, in the air, about to hit me. WHAM!!!!!

I collided with another instructor and broke my neck. I am now overcoming quadriplegia. I have already accomplished much more than my doctors ever said I would. I am living independently; I can roll over; I am learning to crawl and have started to learn how to stand in a walker. All of this after the doctors told me I would never use a manual wheelchair or even feed myself, and this is just the beginning. Amazing changes are taking place within my body, and it is all so very exciting! Now others may know that they can do it too!!!

I am healing my body and I will walk again, in spite of what the medical doctors predicted. That is MY miracle. What is yours? By contributing to my healing, you are also affirming that you can attain your own dreams too!

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