Ben Board's life changed a year ago when he was paralyzed in a horrific accident at a Florida beach. Now, the Ontario father is hoping to run again with his two boy as he continues his incredible recovery.
Board received emergency spinal cord surgery that night, where they fused the C4 and C5 vertebrae of his spine, which form the midsection of the cervical spine near the base of the neck.Board spent four weeks receiving care in the U.S. – one week in intensive care, and the remaining three at the rehabilitation centre.
“She was eerily calm, and said, ‘Ben, I believe that you’re gonna be okay, you’re gonna be Ben again one day,’” he said, recounting a phone call that they had just days after he was out of surgery.“It was like a deep intuition, and I couldn’t explain it, but I just knew that he would be okay,” she said.Board left Miami on May 9, 2022, when he had a chartered medevac to take him to the Hamilton General Hospital’s Regional Rehabilitation Centre.
In total, Board was hospitalized as a tetraplegic for 14 weeks. He progressed from laying in bed to using a wheelchair, then to a walker, and then a cane. “When he came first to see me, he was walking with a rollator walker, he wasn’t using the wheelchair anymore, so our goals were to kind of progress his walking, his balance,” Finlay said.
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