¦ March 9, 2011
INDIANA SPINAL CORD INJURY ATTORNEYS RECOGNIZE SAM SCHMIDT PARALYSIS FOUNDATION EFFORTS
Excerpt from Young & Young, Attorneys at Law website

“We want to take this time to mention, again, our admiration for Sam Schmidt.  As many of you may know Mr. Sam Schmidt suffered a spinal cord injury while driving his race car in 2001. He is paralyzed with quadriplegia.  Sam has not let his physical injuries interfere with leading a full and productive life.  Mr. Sam Schmidt founded the Sam Schmidt Foundation  (www.samschmidt.org) to help find a cure to spinal cord injury.  The foundation’s mission is Leading the Charge to Cure Paralysis.

Sam Schmidt has made it his mission to help others overcome what they might, originally, believe are insurmountable obstacles.  We represented a young man with a family of four who suffered a spinal cord injury as a result of a failure of a climbing tree stand.  Naturally this young man was terrified.  He was depressed.  He worried about how he was going to take care of his family.  He was frightened and angry.  He was considering giving up.  It was painful to watch, and although everyone who came into contact with him helped, he was having great difficulty. 

One day Sam Schmidt came to see this young man.  They talked for an hour or more.  After that conversation, everyone could see the strength rising in this young man.  This young man spoke of Sam as a guide through his hardships.  Mr. Sam Schmidt kept in contact with this young man by phone whenever the young man needed a lift.  The young man returned to work and until his death ten years later, that young man took care of his family and was a proud Hoosier.”

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