I heard that Christopher Reeve had died

[mandragora]

First thing this morning, just when the news broke, I think, about 6.15am British time, when I was getting up to go to work. The Today programme said that they were just getting news that he'd died and I felt a sudden rush of grief. As did many people who heard the news, I think. I remembered how he had been as Superman and how touched and delighted I'd been to see him appear on Smallville. I also admired his courage.

I signed up to make a donation to the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation (CRPF) over a year ago and have been receiving regular communications from them ever since. The research it has been undertaking on spinal cord injuries is something about which I feel deeply, ever since a friend of mine was made a paraplegic by some cretin who drove his car round a bend on the wrong side of the road and knocked my friend off his motorbike. The car driver was unhurt. My friend had the worst injuries of anyone brought into the specialist spinal cord injuries hospital for ten years. Who lived.

If anyone is interested in learning more about the very worthwhile work the CRPF undertakes the website is: http://www.christopherreeve.org/

Comments

[keletkezes.livejournal.com]

Wow, not something I'd heard, being over here. I should check BBC more often on the web.

[mandragora1.livejournal.com]

Yes, I should think the news where you are probably concentrates on rather different issues.

Am very much enjoying reading your experiences on LJ, BTW, although I'm sorry you're feeling so homesick. Hopefully it will get better as you adjust to the cultural changes. No matter what, though, thank you for the insight into Russian society.