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My name is Lawrence Christopher Collins and I was born on May 30th. Growing up in church gave me a strong foundation and where I was supposed to be in the body of Christ. I started out playing sports being the vocal leader of our team and group. Playing football since 1994 kept me discipline and focus on my future goals, one goal that I had in-mind was being the financial support for my mother, sisters, brother, and godmother by going to the NFL and making a career out of this sport that I’d grew to know. Going to Surrattsville High School and being a 2-year captain of the varsity football team, gave me more discipline. Being heavily recruited by Ohio Dominican University in 2004 but seeing as though my grades weren’t the best coming out of high school, the recruiter suggested that I go to a another institution to get my 24 transferrable credits. That’s where I enrolled in Prince George’s Community College.
Upon the ending of the spring semester of my first year of college, I had a life changing car accident that left me labeled as a quadriplegic. I asked my mom if I could use her car to go to driving improvement class. She said Chris you can use my car I only have 3 rules, don’t recline the seat all the way back, don’t drop the top in my car, and don’t be speeding in my car, I said Yes ma’am. When I cut the corner, I did the exact opposite I reclined the seat all the way back, I drop the top in the car, and I was speeding!
I woke up in the hospital 2 weeks later, the result of the accident was I had a broken sternum, a fractured neck, and to collapse lungs. Since the fractures was so high up the vertebrate, they said I wasn’t supposed to move nothing below my neck, even though the whole time I was in a coma everybody said my left arm would move. When I came out of the coma the Lord bless me where I could move both of my arms, I cannot use my fingers at the moment but I’m trusting in the Lord that they will come around at his time along with my complete healing. When I went into the hospital May 17th, 2005 the surgeon had tagged my toe, he said I wasn’t breathing I was without a pulse. When he came in the next morning, he saw that I was breathing and decided to go ahead and do the surgery.
After 12 hours of surgery, he finally let my mother and family in to see me. The surgeon said I was labeled an incomplete because my spinal cord was not completely severed. Going to my doctor appointments in Baltimore, MD at Kennedy Krieger Institute, my doctor would perform what they call an Asia exam. She says Chris this is the one exam you don’t want to get an A in. She would ask me to try to squeeze my glute muscles together, the first couple of times going I was labeled an A. Now A is that you have no movement in your lower extremities. A few visits later, she performs Asia exam, and it went to a B, a B is that you have movement in your lower extremities, but you can’t do it upon command. Finally, I made it to a level C, a C is someone that can completely control when he or she flex his glutes muscles and have movement in their lower extremities. That’s where I stand at the present.
After being discharged from the hospital I went home to my mother’s house, she had a split foyer making it hard for me to get in and out of the house. I used to often ask God why me then I looked at how blessed I was and started to thank him and tell him why not me. My mother doing all that she could to make me comfortable, making the downstairs family room my bedroom. In 2006 a lot of guys around Prince Georges County who I knew of, was dying left and right so I asked my mom if she mind if I started a Bible study in the home just to get the guys, I knew off the street an hour or two, once a week, she agreed.
The study lasted for about a year and a half and I ended it because I told my mother I can lead the horse to the water, but I can’t make it drink. She said Chris all your job is to lead them to the water. Moving out of my mother’s house in 2009 reminding her that she raised me and my siblings the right way, now it’s her time. After moving out gave me a since of independence again. I was able to go back in fellowship back at GMSAM where I minister to the youth about the importance of being obedient to their parents and to them that have rule over them, because had I been obedient to my mother’s words, I wouldn’t be in the condition that I am in now. While going to my doctors’ appointments at Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, MD and going to therapy periodically when able, still keeping the faith that one day I will walk again, it shall manifest.
This fundraiser will help me to purchase my own RTI FES ERGOMETER System by Restorative Therapies for my home. This RTI FES ERGOMETER Systems would help improve multiple things in my life such as: it will reduce undesirable muscular contractions (spasms), prevention or retardation of disuse atrophy, strengthen muscle mass in my lower extremities and maintaining or increasing range of motion, with hopes to speed up along awaited recovery.
I would like to thank you all for your kind Donations! There is NO Amount to Small!!!
I really appreciate ALL OF YOU! In the meantime take care stay safe God bless!!!
Thanks for the Support
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Keep trusting in the Lord as you grow stronger everyday.
Anonymous
I believe and have faith in you Chris. Keep up the good work.
Melonee
Melonee Clark
Keep pushing brother
Jonathan Hairston
All the best to you!
Mildred Honablew
Keep improving Chris! Love you! Char
Charnan Koller
Can't wait to see you on that bike, Chris!
Pastor Larrin Robertson
Let’s go Chris!!!!!
Christopher Johnson
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Help Hope Live
Note in memo:
In honor of Lawrence Christopher Collins
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Help Hope Live
2 Radnor Corporate Center
Suite 100
100 Matsonford Road
Radnor, PA 19087
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