Hal Hargrove Jr. was spinal cord injured in a car accident when he was 17. He is 19 now and is the founder of the Be Perfect SCI Foundation. The idea came to him while he was in rehab:
"I met this guy there, Bryan O'Neil," Hargrove said. "And at Christmas, I told him, 'I'll see
you after the holidays' and he said he couldn't make it back."
O'Neil said his treatment had run out.
"He
told me that he had a family and had to put food on the table,"
Hargrove said. "He said that he wanted to walk, but he'd already had to
sell his car and his house."
Hearing O'Neil's story, hit Hargrove hard.
"It really put things into perspective for me," he said. "I am so lucky, I have so much. I needed to give something back."
Just this past weekend Be Perfect had there second annual fundraiser.
Read more about Hargrove.
Read more about the Be Perfect SCI Foundation.
This is a very common problem.
Household income for those who reported being paralyzed is heavily
skewed towards lower income brackets and is significantly lower than
household income for the country as a whole as reported by the United
States Census.
Even if you had the "right kind" of coverage, it is often a battle with insurance companies and the government to get the money.
Read more about rights and benefits.
Rob
