CHICAGO -- Phillip Cline, 59, distinctly remembers the moment he became paralyzed from the neck down. He was run off the road while driving a motorcycle on July 4, 1996, at 1:20 p.m. in Wisconsin.
He spent nine years in a wheelchair, he recalled, as he was taking a long walk on a treadmill during a visit to the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in Chicago's Streeterville neighborhood on a recent Wednesday.
“They showed me a picture from when I first got here,” he said. “I looked like I was dead. Compared to me now. I can’t believe it, and no one else can either. But, I’m a hard worker.”
