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Josiemckee
Big Wall climber
Mariposa, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 14, 2017 - 03:14pm PT
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We love this woman. She is a true inspiration. Right now she needs our help. She will be undergoing a lengthy recovery which will also be costly. Her insurance is covering a good chunk of the cost of the emergency care, but the rehab process is going need support from the tribe. We want to get this woman out and after it, inspiring others again. Please do what you can. Every little bit counts! Thanks for all the love, prayers and support going out to Quinn. https://www.youcaring.com/quinnbrett-980578
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Loco de Pedra
Mountain climber
Around the World
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Oct 15, 2017 - 12:22pm PT
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bump
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TMayse
climber
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Oct 15, 2017 - 02:53pm PT
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Bump
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Oct 15, 2017 - 07:16pm PT
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bump
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COT
climber
Door Number 3
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Oct 15, 2017 - 07:59pm PT
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bump!
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Anne-Marie Rizzi
climber
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Oct 15, 2017 - 08:12pm PT
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I encourage everyone to donate to Quinn by using denominations of 77. For the seven walls she did in seven days with Josie McKee just last year.
Whether it's $.77 or $7.70 or $77 or even $770 (that would be incredible!), this powerful climber can use your donations; donated in these increments,they could help honor some of her achievements while aiding in her recovery.
Anne-Marie Rizzi
https://www.youcaring.com/quinnbrett-980578
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gruzzy
Social climber
socal
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Oct 15, 2017 - 09:12pm PT
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Speedy recovery to you
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Oct 16, 2017 - 09:29pm PT
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Bump to first page. The site is very simple to operate, simply fill out your credit card info. It is very safe and this is fourth climber I'm donating to, never had a problem. Would be useful if they allowed PayPal, I had the same thought. But taking out the card and punching in the numbers takes less than 2 minutes longer and it is going to a very good person. Quinn is a very nice person and a super accomplished climber. Without exaggerating one of the strongest female trad climbers. A few years back pit up an all free difficult free climb on the South face of Fitz Roy with a few other people.
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ryankelly
Trad climber
Bhumi
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Oct 16, 2017 - 11:47pm PT
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more than receiving, giving creates happiness
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TMayse
climber
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Oct 18, 2017 - 05:21am PT
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Bump
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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Oct 19, 2017 - 12:41pm PT
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bump, for a worthy cause.
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Leggs
Sport climber
Made in California, living in The Old Pueblo
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Oct 19, 2017 - 06:05pm PT
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bump
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velvet!
Trad climber
La Cochitaville
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Oct 19, 2017 - 06:13pm PT
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Team -
With the surgery now completed (72 hours ago), Quinn has decided to share with you all a bit more about the extent of her injury. When she took that fall on Oct 11th and struck Texas Flake, Quinn suffered a burst fracture of her 12th thoracic vertebra that has left her paralyzed below the fracture (around the belly button). Doctors say that it is highly unlikely that she will regain much function or sensation in her legs.
We know that if anyone can defy the odds, it is Quinn. But she will need all of our help in the coming days, weeks, months and years. Please keep sending the love (and the jokes, they are a hit!)
https://www.youcaring.com/quinnbrett-980578
<3
Libby
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Oct 19, 2017 - 08:18pm PT
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Thanks, Libby.
Given the prognosis, it sounds like it was a complete cut to the spinal cord (which does not regenerate like peripheral nerves).
That's a tough one, but still possible to live a long and productive life, and even get out for some 4-wheeled speed runs.
I fractured my T12 also, 40 years ago when I took a 40-footer down onto an icy slab.
I was lucky and my spinal cord was only bruised (the sheath/dura was intact).
I was paralyzed from the waist down for about 2 weeks, and then started regaining function as the swelling went down.
There was uncertainty about how much function would come back,
so I tried to prepare mentally for being unable to walk again.
It didn't seem so bad, actually, as I always liked being a programmer, and I still sit a lot to do that to this day.
As it turned out, I got almost all function back and I was pretty lucky.
I can't run across the street, or do ow, but there are plenty of other things to do....
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Oct 19, 2017 - 09:30pm PT
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fractured my T12 also, 40 years ago when I took a 40-footer down onto an icy slab.
I was lucky and my spinal cord was only bruised (the sheath/dura was intact).
I was paralyzed from the waist down for about 2 weeks, and then started regaining function as the swelling went down.
There was uncertainty about how much function would come back,
so I tried to prepare mentally for being unable to walk again.
It didn't seem so bad, actually, as I always liked being a programmer, and I still sit a lot to do that to this day.
As it turned out, I got almost all function back and I was pretty lucky.
I can't run across the street, or do ow, but there are plenty of other things to do....
My story, which I think I have recounted somewhere here, is similar to Clint's. I was paralyzed from the waist down by a viral inflammation of the spinal cord, with a long-term prognosis of at least some partial recovery but no promise of any kind of return to my previous activities.
I think that like Clint, I realized my brain was still functional and that maybe I should give it more exercise than it had been getting. The end result was a PhD in mathematics and a modest career as a mathematics professor.
I was exceptionally lucky to beat the odds and have a full recovery after about a year. And I went back to climbing, but never again with the same single-minded devotion, as I had opened the doors to other interests that had become dormant during the climbing years. It is easy for me to say now since I was lucky enough to recover, but experiencing the loss of physical ability was one of the best single things that have happened to me. Activity became the icing on the cake, but not the cake any more. The cake lies deeper, and is something more intrinsic.
This is not an attempt to trivially brighten a very dark time for Quinn. I do remember sitting in a wheel chair in the neurology ward, catheterized and staring at a future I had never imagined and wasn't sure I could navigate. I am sure there will be many challenges ahead, and the sun is not going to shine every day. I fervently hope Quinn can challenge the odds as well, and that no matter what, she can find a path through the inevitable trials to some kind of fulfillment, probably at present unexpected and even unimagined.
All my best to you Quinn.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 19, 2017 - 10:34pm PT
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hey there say, libby... i remember micah retz... and his break, of his neck, after diving... there is a thread here, somewhere...
well, he is still on the go...
so i hope this will encourage her... :
it is a quote from his daughter, but, i kept the PERSONAL part OUT...
it is just 'in general' as anyone would share, about a friend:
(though, IN her full story, she does mention SO MUCH admiration and love for him!)
He use to rock climb,ice climb, scuba dive, sky dive, and pretty much any other extreme sport and even since he's been a quadriplegic he's had such a good positive outlook on life and has been tandem skydiving, surfing, and skiing...
so i know, with all her deep-long-time friends, and her pluck and spunck, that she will find a way to be herself again...
it takes encouragement from others, though, as, the road is a
whole new trail, so different from before...
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Bad Climber
Trad climber
The Lawless Border Regions
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Oct 20, 2017 - 08:20am PT
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Oops. Shoulda bumped this one.
BAd
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skeyes
climber
New England
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Oct 24, 2017 - 09:04am PT
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Hi Quinn, here's a joke for you:
Why did the scarecrow get a promotion?
Because she was out standing in her field.
Let's keep up the good work with supporting Quinn's recovery, folks! https://www.youcaring.com/quinnbrett-980578
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