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Title in japan. >> talking to doctors, you caught it earlier when you did. you could have been paralyzed, and i dont take that for granted. what other people tell you, you cant do this or that. dont listen. go for it and go for your dreams and dont look back. >> reporter: dr. sanjay gupta, cnn reporting.

>> its pretty much undescribable. i just love it. i just love the competition. >> its a feeling he wanted to share with others like himself. which is why he began working with the national wheelchair players association. >> its not easy. i know exactly what theyre going through. thats what our organization is about, getting people back into society again and out doing this. >> dr. sanjay gupta, cnn reporting. all right. well have much more on the investigation of this search for that missing a...

It is undescribable. i just love it. i love the competition. it is a feeling he wanted to share with others like himself. >> it is not easy. and i know what they are going through. that is what the organization is all about. getting people out doing things. >> dr. sanjay gupta cnn reporting. dear sun,

After surgery i. didnt have a wheelchair. my legs we atrophied behind my back and i walked on my hands all the time. >> reporter: six years later a transv chance visit by an american to the orphanage changed her life. >> i immediately knew she was my mon. >> reporter: adoption gave tatiana an instant family. her mom pushed her to get involved in sports. >> getting involved in sports saved my life. i wrote down goals and said i really want to be a paraathlete. >> reporter: the youngest member of ...

Played carnegie hall with their orchestra. then she started violin for vasculitis. >> its given me the ability to combine these things in my life, my illness and my music in a way that i never thought would have been possible. >> reporter: last october came an invitation to join the akron symphony. >> its a goal ive had for a long time. and it feels really, really neat knowing that i overcame all of this and im still able to play. >> reporter: dr. sanjay gupta, cnn reporting. >> "the human facto...

Bioducts outside and inside of his liver. he spent almost six years on the transplant list before finally receiving a liver. >> i said im going to do everything in my power to give myself the best chance to bounce back strong from this. >> reporter: and he did. his body reacted well to the transplanted liver. >> like a new engine got dropped in me. that summer, my best snowboard results ever and was on the world cup podium four times. >> reporter: in 2002, he becames first-ever organ transplant ...

Klugs body reacted well. >> like a new engine got dropped in. just seven weeks later he was back on the board. >> i was on the world cup podium four times. he became the first ever to compete in the olympics. he won bronze and he doesnt forget how he got there. he started the foundation to bring organ donors and recipients. the heroes that make people like me recipients enable us to have a second chance. >> this father of two is not taking that second chance lightly. in his words, enjoy the ride...

Choice. live or die. >> i was pretty fortunate that i was able to get a 12-step program. i went nine years straight and i was afraid to miss a meeting. >> he began to change, but his friends didnt. >> just because i stopped drinking, didnt mean everything else did. everybody i associated with drank and drank hard. the first two years was really tough. >> the consequences were dire. >> i had a partner. he was 35 years old. i got sober and he didnt. he died the same year. >> thats why senior who i...

More likely to develop lung cancer than nonsmokers. the first warning on the pack in 1966 was a major under statement. cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health. today it gets right to the point. causes lung cancer, heart disease and more. dr. sanjay gupta, cnn reporting. >> we continue on. we want to begin with the new information we are getting about the deadly weekend shooting at the mall in maryland. it reopened a couple of hours ago are if the first time since the shooting. two peop...

Kids life can be just because one person is causing them to feel their self esteem and that theyre worthless. >> are we going to bully? >> no way. >> dr. sanjay gupta, cnn reporting. [ horn honks ]