Ernesto Fonseca update and photos

[paramoto]

Man, it is tough to see Ernie like this. The Denver facility is eerily familiar to Jackson Memorial where I did my intern rehab.

http://www.ernestofonseca.com/news/060511c.html

[nicotico]

i wonder if he will become the next superman for SCI research

[ChopperChick]

Poor kid.... What was his level of injury do you know?

[stlyin moe]

i wonder if he will become the next superman for SCI research

I doubt it. His familiar audience is about a few hundred thousand people tops. Chris Reeve's was millions world wide.

I agree, it is very difficult to see him like that. It brings back a flurry of unhappy memories...

[stlyin moe]

Poor kid.... What was his level of injury do you know?

C 5-6

[nicotico]

so who takes the cape and flys for us now?

[paramoto]

Poor kid.... What was his level of injury do you know?

I believe he is a C5/C6.

[paramoto]

I agree, it is very difficult to see him like that. It brings back a flurry of unhappy memories...

You are not kidding. It seems that I was there with my wife in every one of those pictures. Thank God I did not need a ventilator.

[stlyin moe]

so who takes the cape and flys for us now?

I think it's going to have to be a collective effort now...

[nicotico]

but i think he is the most famous SCI i know of.

[stlyin moe]

There are others more famous than he i.e. Wayne Rainey (Former Road Race Champ), David Bailey (Former national champ MX'r and tv personality on ESPN), Daryl Mitchell (Actor, most recent role in Ed), Mitch Payton (Pro Circuit Owner), John Hockenberry (Dateline reporter).

As stated by others, one of the keys to bringing SCI to the forefront of people's concerns is to make it more personal to them. It has to be something they fear personally in order to motivate them into action. Everyone has the potential to come down with cancer so people fear it and pump money into it. We need to get SCI in the same place in their minds...

[nicotico]

mike utley

[paramoto]

There are others more famous than he i.e. Wayne Rainey (Former Road Race Champ), David Bailey (Former national champ MX'r and tv personality on ESPN), Daryl Mitchell (Actor, most recent role in Ed), Mitch Payton (Pro Circuit Owner), John Hockenberry (Dateline reporter).

As stated by others, one of the keys to bringing SCI to the forefront of people's concerns is to make it more personal to them. It has to be something they fear personally in order to motivate them into action. Everyone has the potential to come down with cancer so people fear it and pump money into it. We need to get SCI in the same place in their minds...

I read Wayne's book. Its pretty good. Every accident like this brings some spotlight to SCI, but Reeve's circumstances were unique. I remember Jimmy Button's accident, a racer pretty much in the same class as Fonseca, and it brought some attention but not much. I was racing at the time before my injury, and it just worried me for a few days and then it is on with your life. Same thing happened when Pit Beirer the great GP mxer got injured.

[Brad_D]

I read that he had fratured C-7.

http://www.racerxill.com/breakingnew...ca-update.aspx