Andy MacPherson is actively involved in Rally for Rehab, an annual walking event for UHN’s Toronto Rehab, where he raised $3,500 this year
In March, 2014, Andy MacPherson was trying a jump on a ski hill during a family holiday when everything went seriously wrong.
He’d injured his spinal cord and while it hadn’t been severed, doctors gave him only a 3-per-cent chance of walking. After emergency surgery at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital, Mr. MacPherson spent three months at University Health Network’s Toronto Rehabilitation Institute. He started using a power wheelchair, then a manual chair and eventually a walker. After four months he was walking freely. “Now years later, I have returned to what I would call a normal life with some accommodations.
Mr. MacPherson credits Toronto Rehab, and in particular physiotherapist Jamie Young, for helping regain his life. “People sort of take walking for granted. You don’t really think about it for the most part. But when you have to learn how to walk again, it’s really hard and complicated and you need physical, technological and emotional support.”
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