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New Orleans man uses trauma to create center for survivors [Video]

NO WORD ON WHAT THAT SUSPECT, THOUGH, WAS WANTED FOR TURNING PAIN INTO PURPOSE. A NEW ORLEANS NATIVE BECAME PARALYZED IN A DIVING ACCIDENT EIGHT YEARS AGO, AND AS WDSU REPORTER SHAY O’CONNOR EXPLAINS, HE CREATED A FOUNDATION AND A FIRST OF ITS KIND CENTER WHERE PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD NOW COME TO FIND SOLACE AFTER THEY EXPERIENCED TRAUMA. IT WAS A TYPICAL DAY FOR ME, YOU KNOW, LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN HANGING OUT, BOATING, DOING THINGS THAT I LOVE TO DO. THE LAST THING MARK RAYMOND REMEMBERS JULY FOURTH, 2016, BEFORE THE ACCIDENT, WAS STANDING IN THE BACK OF HIS FRIEND’S BOAT ON LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN. HE DOVE IN AND IMMEDIATELY FEELING HIS FOREHEAD SLAM INTO THE SANDY LAKE’S BOTTOM. WEEKS LATER, RAYMOND SAYS HE WOKE UP FROM A MEDICALLY INDUCED COMA AND DISCOVERED HE’D FRACTURED HIS FIFTH VERTEBRAE IN HIS NECK AND COULD NO LONGER WALK OR FULLY USE …

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