How does Reeve feel in a crisis?

W: In your second book, you wrote about feeling angry after the accident. Have you accepted things now?
M: I don’t get angry because it wouldn’t do any good. I experience frustrations sometimes such as when I have a crisis like I just did.
W: What happened?
M: I’ve had three bad life-threatening infections this year. This most recent was a blood infection caused by the scraping of skin on my left hip that I probably picked up one day when I was on the exercise bike. It seemed benign but developed more and more seriously. Then a lot of major organs shut down. We’re trying to figure out what’s going on. Before that one, I got a severe infection in New Orleans just a few days before shooting the movie. I was frustrated. " This is not fair: come on. Let’s not fall apart. I’ve come too far. " So sometimes I get jealous of people who take their ability to move for granted.
W: Do you get afraid?
M: No, I don’t.
W: How could you not?
M: It’s a proven fact that you can control panic by applying rational processes. In all my days of flying and sailing and riding, every now and again I got myself into a jam. On Christmas Day in 1985 I was flying over the Green Mountains in Vermont. Thick clouds, snowing. And the warning light went on. I looked out and saw oil all over the wing. I knew I had to shut down that engine and fly to Boston on the other. You’re hoping it doesn’t develop a problem too. But the chance of a muti-engine failure is very, very remote. Literally, you use your brain to stop panic. I’ve had a lot of training in that area from my life before the injury.