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It was Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Day on Friday and our team on the Midland Centre for Spinal Injuries (known as MCSI) marked the occasion by making this fantastic video in which some of our spinal injury patients share their experiences and offer advice to anyone in a similar position. The whole team were involved, but special credit to Ward Sister Lillie Birch for the idea and the editing, and to Ward Manager Rebecca Warren and Ward Sister Bethan Watkin for filming sections of it. It looks l