FLOWOOD, Miss.—Robert Thomas of Flowood used to begin his days with a brisk 4-mile walk, followed by coffee with his buddies at the Burger King.
Now his routine revolves around his therapy schedule at Methodist Rehabilitation Center in Jackson, where’s he’s fighting to recover from a paralyzing spinal cord injury.
Thomas arrived at the Jackson hospital Oct. 30, this hunting season’s first victim of a tree stand-related injury in Mississippi.
“When I started down the ladder, a rail broke and it threw me,” said Thomas, 68. “I fell about 12 or 13 feet.”