Drexel University – This Beats a Coma Event

This Young man is one to follow he was hit on his bicycle and obtained a head injury now he has become an inspirational speaker after he finished a bike across America.

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Coming up on Friday, October 4 2013 from 7-9pm at Drexel University’s Mitchell Auditorium, an unlikely alumnus will return to Drexel… For the second time.  

After having been hit by a large vehicle, adorned in Drexel Cycling attire while riding on Lancaster Avenue in West Philadelphia, Drexel sophomore student Doug Markgraf shattered bones, bicycle, and helmet. Following a half month in a comatose state with more than 20 scattered bruises to his brain, a return to Drexel’s brick buildings and dragon statues was incredibly unlikely. While doctors worked to get Doug back to walking and talking, he had a different goal entirely: he’d ride as far as he possibly could.

Following a quite challenging career at Drexel, Doug graduated from Drexel’s School of Education as a Robert Noyce Scholar and became a robotics engineering/technology teacher. At the first opportunity he earned, he began the challenge of a lifetime: Doug…

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Live Life so you never have to say, “I should have.” I have lived like this, because at an early age I was brutally beaten and kidnapped while walking to school and acquired a traumatic head injury with a seizure disorder and a lifetime of recovery. I live despite what everyone believed I would become. You would not know any of my struggles or what I have overcome and face daily, if you met me on the street or spoke to me for any amount of time. People with Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) are mostly anonymous. You can rarely tell that anything has happened to them or that they may need extra support or patience, they are strong, intelligent, kind people, living in all shapes, sizes, colors, and sexual orientation, out there defying the odds daily. Their lives often have been turned upside down by their head injury and they are seeking or had to find a new normal and themselves all over again. I hope to be one voice that speaks out for them/us in a World that is not listening, understanding, or providing much in the way of assistance to people with TBI when we are in need. As a writer who observes all people and works with people with disabilities for the past forty plus years, I have noticed that those with TBI are often misunderstood and some of the most underfunded among disability groups in the country, and I want to help change this. I hope to inspire people to live well against all odds and those odds are treacherous mountains to climb, but I am here to say you can summit them!
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