JEFF DION
a day at the races
My name is Jeff Dion. I am a 37 year old C5-6 incomplete Quad and have been injured for 18 years as the result of a drunken driving accident.
After my accident I played Quad Rugby, I graduated college, Co-Owned a business and I currently reside in Norwich Town, CT where I own my own house. I am the President of The National Spinal Cord Injury Association Connecticut Chapter and have volunteered with the Chapter for the past 17 years. I work for The Home Depot and have been employed there for 8 years as a Sales Associate.
I have spent many of nights dreaming about driving a race car and my dream was
fulfilled in New Hampshire at White Mountain Motor Speedway on June 25, 2009
in conjunction with accesableracing.com and Loon Mountain. The experience was
mind blowing and the sense of feeling alive was “priceless”. I didn’t hesitate
to drive the race car on that day and I would do it again in a heartbeat.
There is nothing you can substitute for that feeling - I don’t care how fast
you fly down the highway or drive on city streets. For one day my concentration
was on something that, once strapped in with a fire suit and helmet, didn’t
involve a disability; it only involved the fulfillment of a “dream”.
Even though there was a passenger when I was racing around that track for
25 laps it was just me and that car, living in the moment, in my own world
truly feeling “alive”.
How many people, disabled or not have ever taken a chance to feel that raw emotion?
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