Many Texans are perplexed as to why Governor Greg Abbott is confined to a wheelchair and left disabled.
He is a triumphant narrative over tragedy.
Greg Abbott wheelchair: Does Governor Abbott of Texas have a disability?
Governor Greg Abbott of Texas has collected $7.9 million so far from a court settlement related to a 1984 injury that left him wheelchair-bound.
Abbott, then the state’s attorney general and running for governor for the first time, voluntarily released copies of the September 1986 deal to the media in 2013.
He’s currently fighting for re-election against Beto O’Rourke, a Democrat.
Does Greg Abbott have a spinal cord injury?
Governor Greg Abbott, a 26-year-old recent law school graduate, took a break from preparing for the bar exam on a summer day in July 1984 by going for a jog in a west Houston neighborhood, like he had done many times before.
Governor Abbott was out running when a massive oak tree along his path split and collapsed on his back, paralyzing him from the waist down.
Doctors discovered numerous crushed vertebrae splintering into his spinal cord, shattered ribs, and damage to essential organs when he was brought to the hospital.
Doctors attempted to reassemble his vertebrae as he lay in a hospital bed, writhing in excruciating pain.
Two steel rods were placed near his spine and will remain there for the rest of his life.
