Paralyzed detective to participate in Tunnel to Towers 5K

Paralyzed cop nonetheless serves NYC in uniform

Detective Scot Abrams was in an on-duty accident that paralyzed the left aspect of his physique. After a dozen surgical procedures and a variety of onerous work, Abrams is ready to stroll utilizing a leg brace and a cane.

NEW YORK – NYPD Detective Scot Abrams is a proud husband and devoted father. The standard hero can be a survivor.

“‘I can not,’ or ‘I do not need to’ is just not in my vocabulary,” Abrams mentioned.

After graduating from highschool, Abrams joined the Marine Corps for 5 years. In 1998, he took the police officer’s oath of workplace and shortly labored his manner up the ranks from the 113th Precinct in Queens to Freeway Patrol Unit 2 in Brooklyn.

Then got here the day when time stood nonetheless, his spouse mentioned.

“The day of that accident, I acquired that cellphone name at work,” Tara Abrams mentioned. “And it simply modified.”

In 2007, Abrams was on his motorbike working a funeral procession when he was instantly minimize off. He misplaced management, rode head-on right into a bus, and was thrown off the bike.

“Subsequent factor I bear in mind, waking up on life help at NYU with no rationalization,” Abrams mentioned. “Who, what, the place, how, or why I am right here?”

“They gave him his final rights, and it was powerful,” Tara mentioned.

The Lengthy Island native suffered a spinal cord injury and a compound fracture to the left leg he was paralyzed on the complete left aspect of his physique.

After three and a half months within the hospital, Abrams was decided to return to the life as he as soon as knew it. He realized find out how to communicate, eat, and even stroll once more through the use of a cane and a leg brace.

Quickly Abrams shall be celebrating yet one more milestone. Tara and their 16-year-old son Josh shall be pushing Scot in his wheelchair on this 12 months’s Tunnel to Towers 5K Run and Stroll from begin to end in New York Metropolis.

The Tunnel to Towers Basis can be upgrading his house and paying off his mortgage.

“I knew about Tunnel to Towers, I knew in regards to the races and stuff,” Josh mentioned. “However I did not know all the things behind it. I did not know they have been going to do that for our home.”

At present, Abrams spends a lot of his time at house in Massapequa together with his household or at bodily remedy. Nonetheless, he hasn’t stopped serving the folks of New York Metropolis.

“I do public talking for the police division, for the totally different instructions, throughout to present again what the job has given to me and my household,” he mentioned.

He’s giving again to those that helped him when he wanted it most.