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Important questions

Written by Sean on Thursday, April 13, 2006

I spend a fair bit of my time thinking of ways to get an SCI.  I’ve also spent time talking to other people about these ideas.  I often wonder if this is a mistake.  I tell them my best idea so far is injecting ethanol into my spine, but even that has some rather fatal consequences.  The Central Nervous System does not allow the immune system in.  It does have its own version of the immune system but it is very very much slower than the immune system.  The biggest drawback with injecting something into my spine is the waiting for the injection site to heal. 

And what if it doesn’t heal?  What if the injection wasn’t sterile and I was given an infection straight away?  Would that infection stick to below my desired level or would it move upwards?  How would I explain this infection to doctors?

Some people I talk to tell me they want to have some sort of an “accident” so they can reap the rewards that their country provides for people who have had an accident.  Is this right?  I don’t know.  I’d certainly like to think I’d be able to provide for myself once I got my SCI.  Isn’t that help accident compensation? If that is the case can self injury be rightfully classed as an accident? [note from editor: accident compensation in some countries, not all of them]

The only sure fire way I can think of that would actually do damage to the spinal cord is by injection.  If you went and had a sledge hammer to your back it could break several vertebrae but would it do damage to your spinal cord?  And how would you know the spinal cord was damaged in the spot you wanted?  Sure you could set up some sort of a frame to “guide” the hammer, but there is always something that could go wrong.  If there was a safe way of getting an SCI, a guaranteed safe way I would have done it by now, just as Sean would have. 

People have come along with wonderful ideas that they have simply raved about, but whenever you try to make a move to get closer, to really discover what exactly this is they tend to run away, refuse to help.  When that happens you have to wonder, were they just taking advantage of my feelings?

I know, I have a lot of questions.  I worry I won’t find the answer to many of them.  I just hope I find an answer to the most important ones.  But then which ones are more important?