Tijs (17) sustained a spinal cord injury during a dive: ‘When you come out of your coma, you don’t feel like anything’

Tijs 17 sustained a spinal cord injury during a dive

It’s lunch time. The children in the department of rehabilitation center De Hoogstraat in Utrecht gather in the living room with their supervisors. Tijs also enters the room and joins the table. He jokes with the others at the table and his attendant helps him eat an orange. Tijs Zilverberg is 17 years old, but can no longer eat independently.

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