It’s one of every parent’s worst nightmares and today’s guest lived through it in 2017.

Raynald Dupuis got a phone call in February 2017 telling him that his daughter had been badly injured in a serious snowmobile crash. The end result was a spinal cord injury that left his 17 year old daughter paralyzed.

He says as parents, he and his wife prayed and searched for alternative therapy that would offer their daughter a way to go beyond what she was offered by the medical system. 

That came through a family member who discovered the First Steps Wellness Centre in Regina that focuses on rehabbing these injuries in new ways.

With the support of their family, church community and work community, sufficient funds were raised to allow the Dupuis family to temporarily relocate to Regina so as to offer this opportunity of rehabilitative exercise therapy to their daughter. 

Thanks to the therapy, their daughter has made sufficient functional gains to move ahead with her life with much autonomy.  She regained her driver’s licence and is currently enrolled at Red River College in the Applied accounting program.

Two and a half years later, the Dupuis family has returned home to Manitoba . Raynald is now involved in the opening of a second centre in Winnipeg.