George would never walk again after ‘cystitis’: ‘Get the kids, I’m not going to survive this’

He could never walk again. At most they can communicate using mouth and chin controls. But George Monkou (61) made a miraculous recovery from a high spinal cord injury. He wrote a book about that agony, which started with an ‘innocent’ bladder infection. “I knew for sure: I will die on this stretcher in the emergency room.”

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