Disabled Skier Manages TBI, Paralysis

Source: Disaboom

Joel Hunt is a disabled skier who can negotiate difficult black diamond runs and pop through moguls. Two years ago, he was just getting out of a wheelchair.

In his former life, he played high school football, then joined the Army and served three rotations in Iraq. In 2005 he was on patrol in Baqubah, 30 miles northeast of Baghdad, when the vehicle he was riding in got hit by an IUD, leaving him with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and a paralyzed left side.

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