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“They were sort of symbolic of the struggle that one goes through when they’re spinal cord-injured where you have one person wholly focused on finding cures, which is what our research program was really geared toward. And Chris was admittedly a man in a hurry toward getting toward that,” Wilderotter says. “And on the other side, you had Dana — sort of the caregiver — who really was deeply concerned about Chris’ quality of life and how he lived his life almost on a day-to-day basis.”
Going Forward
“They were sort of symbolic of the struggle that one goes through when they’re spinal cord-injured where you have one person wholly focused on finding cures, which is what our research program was really geared toward. And Chris was admittedly a man in a hurry toward getting toward that,” Wilderotter says. “And on the other side, you had Dana — sort of the caregiver — who really was deeply concerned about Chris’ quality of life and how he lived his life almost on a day-to-day basis.”