I have chosen not to think too much about the anniversary of my accident, but I have decided to embrace the first time I was able to breathe for 24 hours without any ventilator assistance.
I was shooting for my birthday, August 4, but I managed to breathe on my own for the entire day on August 6 (today) 13 years ago. In fact, I have only been put on a ventilator once since then to aid me in getting out secretions. Well, I do stuck on the end of a ventilator hose daily in order to get some medication into my lungs, but I didn't start doing that until February 2007. I had planned on doing something today, but that didn't work out. Tomorrow I will definitely doing something worthwhile. -- Quadius C2-3 incomplete 13 years post injury
