Main Line must read: Quadriplegic Wayne resident Jim Sanders celebrates 20 years of independent living

JOS Trust members – and just a few of Jim Sanders’ many friends – gather with Jim outside his Chesterbrook home: David Dugery of Newtown Square, Bill Crockett of Media and Melissa and Byron Anstine of Chester Springs. 
(Caroline O'Halloran/Main Line Media News)

Pennsylvania and New Jersey locals may remember the story of Jim Sanders. In 1989, at age 22, the Temple student dove into shallow waters in Longport, N.J. only to have his life forever changed through a spinal injury.

In a story on our website today, Main Line Suburban Life reporter Caroline O'Halloran writes:

 They read about how doctors, certain that Jim would never survive an ambulance ride, had to wait anxiously five long days for the weather to clear before he could be safely medevaced from Shore Memorial to Jefferson’s Level 1 Trauma Center, an airlift that would become Jim’s first post-accident memory.

 Sanders did survive the incident and the medevac. In fact, he is celebrating 20 years of independent living through the friends he's met and the lives he's changed since the incident.

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