Some asked about my accident and life sooo Here is a summery of me:
May 30/31st at 1am 1981, I was driving a good friend on on a freshly graveled road. I was driving a station wagon Pinto. A very light car. I hit loose gravel lost control and rolled it into a very deep ditch. Of course back then no one wore seatbelts. My friends fell out of the car and I was thrown through the windshield. How that happen is beyond everyone because there is very little room between the steer wheel and roof, that is probably why when I went out my forehead hit the rim where the windshield was attached. It caused my neck to bend backward breaking at an angel of C5,6,7 and scalping me in an L shape. They doctors at the time thought the spinal cord was completely severed once I was able to get an MRI years later they found there was a little still attached which expand how I had full use of shoulders and biceps. I was lucky my friend was able to get up and go get help because I was laying in the middle of the gravel road and no one would have seen me until it was too late so God was watching over me that way. I was blessed with no internal injuries and no brain damage. Luckily my scalp was able to be cleaned and folded back in place. Surprisingly my hair even grew back which they did not expect. The ambulance driver and attendant were family friends, it was harder on them seeing someone they knew. But it was a small community so I am sure they knew everyone they helped. I was taken to a local hospital then Life flown to Iowa Methodist Medical Center/hospital IN Des Moines IA where I spent three weeks in ICU, 3 weeks in the hospital the went Younkers which was attached to IMMC. I was there from the beginning of July until January 1st 1982. I was able to stay caught up with my senior class while I was in Yonkers. When I got out I joined my class of 34(that is including me.) I graduated with them. Small town people rally together and help. Thanks to my classmates which I had gone to school with since I was in Kindergarten, other friends from surrounding communities, family and so many others.
