3 December 2008, 7:42 pm
speeding down the highway at 70-80 mph, at a coming intersection a middle-aged woman driving an 18-wheeler decides to ignore the stop sign n try to get onto our lane. we of coarse we had the right-away. so as this 18-wheeler tries to get onto our lane, my cousin (the person driving) doesnt brake in time. we end up hitting the back of the haul, the corner, n our car went under it n popped out the other side without a roof. rolling 4 about 30-40ft in the process i (the passanger) flew out of the car for more than 50ft. when the paramedics arrived at the scene my body was in a bush with a liscence plate stuck on my head. i was airlifted by helicopter to the nearest hospital n on the way there or upon arrival in the emergency room i had gone flat-line. so i was dead for about 3 minutes, 2:58 sec. my neck had broken in c4, c5 vertabrea. my surgery took around 13 hrs. i had, i think, 10-13 doctors operating on me. they all came to the conlusion n informed my mom/family that damage caused was going to leave me as a vegetable (coma for life). if not id be lucky enough to be paralyzed from the neck down. and hopes for being paralyzed from the waste down were useless or out of the question. having relapses lead to me being in ICU for about 2 months. i awoke about 2 weeks before going to physical rehabilitation. i had feeling in both my legs n all over my body. doctors were extremely surprised that i had movement at all. i could barely move, but still a spec of movement was all they needed to decide i was going to be ok. off to rehab i went, where eventually i learned how to walk again, how to open n close my fists, how to stand up, sit up, the basic movements everyone takes advantage of. now about a year 1/2 later im almost completely back to normal. id say around 90%. well all that time i was in rehab n the hospital, struggling, suffering, n in pain..... i forced myself to get better, i forced my body to make the movements that seemed impossible like grip a fork, never in all of that time did i see "god" helping me. it was my effort n those around me that helped. many ppl say im a miracle, well thats cuz theres no other word for wat happen to me, except i guess "freak accident" or "lucky". no, theres no god. when i died, i dont recall seeing fluffy clouds with angels, or fire with demons popping out of it. hell nor heaven exist. nor does god or the devil. your actions, decisions, n choices in life with the responce of karma is wat makes your ilfe wat it is........ Read More »
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