Reeve makes speech without ventilator

Christopher Reeve appeared before a New York audience and proudly pointed out what he was missing: the ventilator he has had to use since the horseback riding accident that left him paralysed.

“To breathe normally, to be able to smell ... anything that makes you feel more normal is psychologically so important,” the actor told a crowd at Monday night’s annual benefit for his Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation.