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The moment the retired doctor’s head crashed into the net, snapped backwards and sent him flying through the air, he knew he had suffered a spinal cord injury.
It was the first time Dr. Bill Silvers, then 72, ever had played pickleball and just 10 minutes into his first game.
Spring was dawning on April 23, 2022, the last day of Passover — the Jewish holiday that celebrates freedom and survival. Silvers had spent the morning at his synagogue’s Saturday services and visited a friend who offered to teach him pickleball. They had just started playing on tennis courts at the friend’s condo south of Denver. Wires that hold up tennis nets are more taut than typical pickleball nets.
“I went for a shot at the net. I tripped. I had just had a left knee replacement. I hit the net with my head, hyperextended and fractured my C4,” said Silvers, a semi-retired allergist.
He felt no pain, but time seemed to stop as Silvers hovered for an eerily long moment in the air.
His life was about to change, and he knew it. |
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