Paul "The Punisher" Williams

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Doctor says the spine is bruised not broken and after 2-3 years from injury theres a possibility he could start to walk again.

Spinal cord injuries don't work that way, even if they're just bruised. Unfortunately that's the nature of that beast, but as long as he's getting up every day smiling at doing what he does that's all that matters. Hopefully medical science will be able to help guys like us be able to walk again. I wondered he's doing any advocacy work towards fixing the spinal cord injuries. Would be nice to have a face to promote advocacy for stem cell research.

What caused you to be paralysed?

I broke my neck in an automobile accident Christmas Eve 2012. I broken at C5 so I'm paralyzed from the neck down. I can use my arms but I can't use my hands so I'm a quadriplegic kind of like Christopher Reeve, only I don't need a ventilator to breathe. Fortunately I was an amateur boxer that year and was preparing for the 2013 Golden gloves tournament in Arizona, but as you imagine that didn't happen. But being an extreme good shape is what saved my life. No lie though being in a wheelchair paralyzed sucks I thought by this time they'd have a treatment. But hey that's life.