'Half of me did die': Akron ER doctor reinvents himself after paralyzing ski accident

• Dr. Jason Kolb, an Akron ER doctor, was paralyzed from the waist down in a ski accident last January.
• He is reinventing his life now that he can no longer walk.
• He is writing a book and trying to spread his message of 'hope and joy in suffering.'

When Dr. Jason Kolb returned from Colorado on Good Friday last year, he wheeled instead of walked into his Kent home. 

Jason, who was an emergency medicine doctor at Summa Akron City Hospital, had been paralyzed from the waist down in a skiing accident. 

Jason immediately accepted after his accident that he would never walk again, relying on his faith to guide him through this trying time. 

A year later, Jason’s Christian foundation remains strong. He feels that he has, in a sense, been resurrected.  

 “Half of me did die,” he said, as he sat with his dog, Daisy, on his lap. “The second half – we'll see what God does with it.”