110 Votes and Counting so lets MAKE THIS HAPPEN, together we can make a difference! Here is story as written by Herbert Sendecki who entered him in the National Local Hero Contest. Please take the time to read and VOTE and SHARE so I can have the much needed independence with an accessible Van both for his personal life and work for Dream2Walk. Thank you in advance for your support, YOU CAN VOTE DAILY, answer the daily question to make your vote count twice voting ends May 9th! Most people do not come back from the dead. But, thankfully, Stewart Morrison is not most people. At age 27 the entrepreneurial Stewart had already succeeded with a small business. However, wrong decisions sent him back to the starting line. Then a good friend passed away. So, in 2006, as Stewart drove to the wake, he thought he had reached the lowest point. He was dead wrong. He would be stricken, halfway to the wake, by an illness that would progress to the point where Stewart would be dead for 4 and 1/2 minutes. At that point, when there truly was no further down that one could go, he started his return trip. This story could fill with what a long-term hospital stay, with Transverse Myelitis, is like. But, what is important is that leaving the hospital for outpatient therapy, Stewart found that the “experts” were not interested in returning him to his feet, but rather, teaching wheelchair life. So Stewart sought out physical therapy for him, and his legs. He learned of Project Walk, with a facility in Austin Texas. However, he needed to either raise the money for himself to attend or do something to earn a grant from them. This serendipitously led to his creation of the Dream2Walk foundation. An organization uniquely dedicated to assisting wheelchair-bound people to attend physical therapy specifically aimed at getting them back on their feet. As of this writing the Foundation, now aided by ‘Executives in Action’ has provided 269 hours of physical training, for the initial 5 recipients; see Dream2Walk.org for their stories. Ironically, Stewart is not one of those people. His personal character will not allow him to take advantage of the very Foundation that he founded. In fact, he even donated the $1,000 he initially raised for himself to attend Project Walk, Austin, to someone who lived closer to it; as a Project Walk facility opened in Addison, Texas; nearer to his home. Running a nonprofit such as the Dream2Walk foundation takes time and effort. It also requires getting around to different places and meeting many people. Something that is very difficult for Stewart, as he is without his own transportation. What money he does have is spent on time at Project Walk. So your vote for Stewart is helping him and the Dream2Walk Foundation; and that assistance will enable the Foundation to help more people. mobilityawarenessmonth/entrant/stewart-morrison-plano-tx/
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