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Alan Cook
Alan is 35 years old and lives in Addlestone, Surrey. Originally from the Isle of Arran Scotland, he sustained a spinal cord injury when aged 28. Alan describes how he sustained the injury in his own words ‘ I was at a party in a friend's flat in Edinburgh and while dancing (badly) on the backrest of a sofa I fell backwards straight through a window into the garden two stories below. I broke 5 vertebrae that resulted in a complete spinal injury at T8.’ Alan spent 6 months in the Queen Elizabeth National Spinal Injuries Unit in Glasgow. Read more... | | |
