Phillips Learns Patience On Road To Recovery

PHILADELPHIA — While most people are rushing around shopping, decorating and preparing for the Christmas season, Vance Phillips is struggling to learn how to walk and get out of the hospital to spend the holiday with his family.

Phillips says he might spend some time in a wheelchair, but it won’t be a lifelong situation. “My rehabilitation is about using a wheelchair, but I’m working toward walking someday,” he said from his bed at Jefferson Health System’s Magee Rehabilitation Hospital in downtown Philadelphia.

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