The physical and emotional anguish was so overwhelming that Reeve contemplated suicide.
Reeve's life was saved, but the battle was just beginning, as the actor faced a likely fate in which he would never be able to feel anything below his neck, breathe without help from a respirator or undertake any physical activity on his own again. He was then airlifted to the University of Virginia Hospital, where doctors successfully completed an operation to reattach his skull to the spinal column. Paramedics acted quickly by stabilizing Reeve's head and squeezing air into his body before brain damage could set in. Still conscious, though he later had no memory of the incident, Reeve sputtered, "I can't breathe." He also couldn't move - the impact had fractured his first cervical vertebra and damaged the second, his head barely held in place by his neck muscles. His hands wrapped up in the bridle and reins, he was unable to break his fall, and the full load of his 215-pound frame crashed headfirst into the top rail. Reeve kept moving forward, the momentum lifting him clear off the horse.
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