He would have been wherever the family he adored was gathering, but his wheelchair kept him away from many occasions that painfully missed his company.

At 14, an anyeurism was discovered in the base of his brain. What happened to Superman, happened to him, minus the horse and the split-second timing. His was a slow and steady progression from barely noticeable, to shaky, to no movement at all from the neck down.

He pushed the boundaries of his limitations at each phase of his illness, biking hundreds of miles just because he could and knew soon he wouldn't.