In 2021, Daison Pursley was racing a midget car in Arizona when his entire life changed. Battling another driver for a chance to make it to the next round, he crashed, his car flipping several times in an accident that left the then-17-year-old with a broken neck, his C4 vertebra completely shattered. At the hospital, doctors rushed him into surgery. Pursley woke up to learn that he was now an “incomplete quadriplegic” — a term for partial paralysis in all four limbs.
Pursley, blessedly, doesn’t remember much from that horrifying moment.
