Hello,

Welcome to Halogear.

I am Danielle Savage, founder of Halo Gear. This is my story of how I ended up in my halo.In the spring of 2001 I went on vacation at Club Med in Mexico. After an evening of partying at their night club, a group of us decided to go swimming. At the pool I dove into what I thought was the deep end but hit my head instead at the bottom of the shallow end. Amazingly I was not permanently paralyzed and did not die. I was, however, temporarily paralyzed and at that moment could neither swim nor move. I would have drowned, but someone whom I had just met came to my rescue, who happened to have had lifeguard training and who instructed the rest of our group on how to assist him in getting me out of the pool without causing additional damage to my fractured cervical spine. His name is Patrick Horseman and I owe him my life. I spent three days in a very primitive (some dirt floors) hospital in Mexico before being flown back to the states in an ambulance jet. Back in San Diego, California, the doctors told me they were going to put this strange medieval looking contraption on me, called a halo. That caused initially the worst pain I could ever imagine. After a few days I was sent home. My friends and family took turns caring for me full-time the first month and a half until I was able to do at least some things for myself. I spent eight long months in the halo. When I realized there was nobody to talk to who had been in a halo before, I became very lonely and really wanted to talk to somebody who had had a similar experience. Since then I have made it my mission to make sure nobody has to go through this alone again, and to help out with pep talk and with supplying items that make the life of a halo wearer a little easier.