PARALYZED AND WALKING AGAIN
“Sometimes, God just wants to get your attention,” he said. “He chose me.”
Corey Borner was having such a good spring football practice that he asked his coach to keep it going: “One more play.”
Borner, who was looking to make his mark in May 2009 at his Dallas-area high school, prepared as “Deuce 84 P-Bubble and Up” was called as the final play of practice — a call that turned his life upside down.
After the freshman cornerback made the tackle on the bubble screen, the 16-year-old urged teammates who came over to congratulate him on the hit not to touch him.
Borner could not feel anything from his head to his feet.
As he lay motionless on the field at DeSoto High School, he kept repeating the same phrase: “God, be with me.”
Doctors later told him that he had suffered a severe spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed, with many skeptical that he would walk again. Borner was devastated, unable to envision what his future would look like. But he soon mustered his will, taking the life-changing news as a challenge....read more
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