My name is Lori Ann McGraw LAM came from my initials when God first gave me the vision for The LAM foundation while I was in recovery still in the hospital. On April 15, 2021 I was carefully heading home in a blizzard when my car slid on the ice turning a hard 180 degrees snapping my neck and paralyzing me instantly from the neck down. I could only blink I could no longer control my vehicle but helplessly watched as it continued to roll down hill and flipped over into the ditch, I hung there hopelessly helpless in my seatbelt unable to save myself until helped arrived. I laterally fractured C5 & C7, combust fractured C6, blew several discs, by a true miracle of God, surgery to rebuild my C6, support from my amazing husband and our four beautiful daughters, and a very long road of recovery I regained full function of my body. 

While I was recovering one of my dearest friends Mike Pszanka was in a horrible ATV accident broke his neck almost identical to mine and was a quadriplegic instantly also, he too is a walking miracle of God and on this long brutal road of recovery. God brought our families together for such a time as this we share the same vision & passion to help patients like Mike and I who suffer from Spinal Cord injuries. LAM isn’t just my initials it stands for Lori And Mike now! We are on a mission to help fellow Spinal Cord Survivors like us so many suffer in silence, chronic pain or even take their life because they can’t live with the pain anymore.