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Severed tendons restored
In the spring semester of my senior year in college at Texas A&M, I was selected as one of five students to represent my school at Principia College's annual public affairs conference. Four of us decided to drive together overnight from College Station, Texas, to southern Illinois.
Near Arkadelphia, Arkansas, while three of us were asleep in the very early morning hours, the driver ran off the road and into a utility pole. I was asleep, riding "shotgun" in the right front seat, and on impact was thrown through the vehicle's windshield.
Emergency personnel rushed all of us to the nearest hospital. I was the most seriously injured. Yet, since I had gone through the windshield, it seemed miraculous that my only injury was to my left hand and forearm. It was, however, a serious wound. Several tendons were completely severed, an injury that the examining physician said would require corrective surgery.
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July 21, 2003 issue
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Your money—or your way of life?
Bettie Gray
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letters
with contributions from Jacki Harmon, David Raflo, Marilyn C. Page, Jacqueline Kung
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items of interest
with contributions from Haroon Habib, Kathrin Chavez, Brandon Ferguson
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TRUST IN A GOD who knows no bounds
By Jer Master
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Where can you find real value?
By Geoffrey Barratt
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Stagnation, deflation, and a spiritual perspective
By Richard A. Nenneman
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'God's angels are going before me'
By Cynthia Newport
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We stayed
By Subhash Malhotra
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A scientific approach to memorizing music
By David A. Cornell
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A trip from hurt to healing
By Judith Wiltshire Benson
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Starting the day right
By Kim Shippey Senior Writer
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All aboard the night train
By Marilyn Jones Senior Writer
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Security that money can't buy
By Mark Swinney
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Severed tendons restored
Jeffrey Wentworth
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Spiritual ideas bring physical healing
Dominique Tièche