Guardians of Grail

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Her thoughts cleared about two weeks later as she sat among Reeve's friends and family at his memorial service at The Juilliard School in New York City,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
"You could feel his presence through the entire ceremony," Cody said. "He had been such an inspiration to me and his life and legacy will not die even though he passed away."
Reeve played Superman on the big screen and to countless people, he was a real-life super hero. After an equestrian accident left him paralyzed from the neck down in 1995, Reeve threw himself behind the cause of helping those with spinal cord injuries, and,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as a result,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], spinal cord research,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], treatment and public awareness made huge advances.
When the Man of Steel succumbed to an infection from a bed sore a year ago, he left a huge emotional, physical and financial gap in the world of the estimated 200,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],000 Americans who have sustained a spinal cord injury. But he also left a legacy of hope to young people like Cody, who wants to bring the world of science and politics together, aspiring politician Brooke Ellison, and surfer Jesse Billauer.
"Chris showed everyone the path and he left that path,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Cody said. "I may be paralyzed, but my voice is not."
Cody Unser was by all accounts a healthy teenager until a basketball practice in February 1999 when she suddenly began struggling for air and was overcome by a blinding headache. Twenty-four hours later,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the 12-year-old was paralyzed from the waist down.
Cody, whose father is racing great Al Unser,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], was diagnosed with transverse myelitis, a rare neurological disorder caused by inflammation of the spinal cord, according to the National Center for Neurological Disorders and Stroke. The inflammation can damage or destroy myler nerve cell fibers, and that damage causes scars that interrupt communication between the nerves in the spinal cord and the rest of the body.
Just seven months after her diagnosis,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Cody and her mother, Shelley,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], founded the Cody Unser First Step Foundation to promote awareness about transverse myelitis and paralysis in general, but it is within the last year that Cody has operated with a new sense of urgency.
"She has really amazed me with how much she has been doing ever since Christopher Reeve's death," said Shelley Unser.
In May, Cody visited Capitol Hill to advocate for the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, which would allow for excess embryos that have been harvested for use in invitro fertilization to be used for stem cell research.
"There's an educational and communication barrier between the politicians and the scientists,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Cody said. "This is not a political issue, it's a human issue. I think morality demands compassion and I haven't been seeing a lot of compassion amongst politicians."
On May 24,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the legislation was approved by the House of Representatives by a 238-194 vote and is awaiting action in the Senate.
Cody is continuing her efforts to marry politics and science,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. She has created her own major at the University of Redlands in California where she is a freshman in political biology,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
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