Thank you Carolyn, Dianna, Jim, Glen, Eric, Bobbie, Danny, Bryce, Don and so many others behind the scenes that are not always active in the quad list or are taking a sabbatical, etc. and you know who you are :-)
The tractor-trailer that I went under with me being in the passenger seat at age 15 going on 37 years ago did not have the bar going across the back to avoid cars from going under it. However, having said that, if it DID have the bar going across I would have been decapitated OR I would have been decapitated that I had been wearing a seatbelt. That was October 1979 when most people did not wear seatbelts. Therefore I sometimes wonder whether or not it was worth it going through all I have gone through over the last 37 years thanks to so many medical "professionals" who have hurt me badly including recently. The best part of all those years was meeting and marrying my beloved husband who passed away in June 2012. We had so many plans and it was an unexpected passing. The next best thing in my life is my furbabies [canines] and I have had dogs since I was a baby. There were several years whereby I did not have a dog but I hope I do not have to go without one the rest of my years on this planet. ~Lori C4/5 quad nearly 37 years post On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Carolyn Boyles <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe my accident was the reason that Landers Road and Warden Road in > North Little Rock, Arkansas are now each one way. Someone tried to make a > left turn in front of me while they were coming out of a Walmart parking > lot. Needless to say, there wasn't enough time. I broadsided them at 35 > mph, no time to hit my brakes. That was going on 22 years ago. Arthritis is > what's getting me now in addition to the SCI. There was an ambulance about > five cars behind me in the line of traffic and the EMTs saw the wreck. When > the EMT got to my car door and found I was still alive, he told me he was > expecting to find a corpse. Needless to say, I could have done without the > Traumatic Brain Injury from my forehead hitting the windshield. An airbag > wouldn't have done me any good. I saw the same wreck reenacted on TV years > later with a car with an airbag and it didn't set off the airbag. > > Carolyn > > -- "Petting, scratching and cuddling a dog could be soothing to the mind and heart and deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer." ~Dean Koontz
