Patient Stories

  • Andy Byrd

    After a paralyzing diving accident, an entrepreneur and visionary finds the divine plan for his life in operating an organic farm.
  • Curtis Lovejoy

    When former Shepherd Center patient Curtis Lovejoy was 12 years old, someone told him, “If you keep that smile on your face, it will take you around the world.” And it has, along with world-class athletic skills that he developed after a devastating spinal cord injury.
  • Bill Miller

    Bill Miller’s path to invention began one night in 1997. He tripped over some weight equipment in his college dorm room, dislocating two vertebrae in his neck and bruising his spinal cord. The accident left him a C-1-2, ventilator-dependent quadriplegic.
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