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Help me Fish Again

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Hi my name is jonathan for those who do not know my story  about 16 yrs ago i was out in the ocean with some friends 3 hrs off shore my friend dropped the anchor off the back of the boat about 300 feet of anchor rope till the bottom he dove in said the water was good and deep so i decided it was safe for me to go dove of the front hit the sand bar head first breaking my neck severing my spine instantly loosing feeling and movement in all extremities i could hear my friends yelling like a echo jon stop foolin around all i could do was float lifeless until they realized i wasn't joking jumped in scooped my numb parylized body up in the boat stabilized me i was lifeflighted to st marys were i went threw hrs of surgery sedation for about two weeks on a ventalator fighting for my life about 6 months later i fought my way threw almost dying for the dr to tell me i was never going to walk again or be able to use my hands or arms again i would be parylized from the neck down for the rest of my life wheelchair bound well i fought my way to 33 and still thrive to survive going through many surgeries and hospitalized a countless number of times finding myself isolated to a hospital bed or my apartment when i was young fishing was what i loved to do no matter how i was feeling fishing was happiness to me after 16 yrs of thinking i would never fish again and then i found this pole that could give me that happy place again which I need so badly in my life now theres only 1 thing stopping me the price for adaptive equipment is outrageous so im goin to suck up my pride and do something that I never liked to do ask for help from you the littlest donation can help me reach my goal to get back out of isolation and ptsd and back on the lake again fishing in my happy place thank you for reading my story and thank you in advance for the donations in advance god bless...

                                                                                       Jonathan





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    Jonathan Martin
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    Pittsfield, MA

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