a week ago i was sitting in my dorm room playin guitar when my friend comes in and says we gotta go to a floor meeting. he says close the window, and me trip on the window sill and go right into the 7 foot window. smash. in an instant all i see is pulverized glass in thr moonlight and an abyss below. i fell back into the room, and my friend screamed "OH MY GOD". i looked at my arm. from elbow to armpit, it was split open to the bone. my artery, vein, and 2 nerves were completely blown open. blood gushed like a fucking fire hydrant. i cant describe the terror i felt. i lost 2/3 of my blood in about a minute, and thank god these 2 random guys on my hall happened to be EMTs or id be dead. somehow i remained conscious for all this. i thought i would die if i passed out. had to be airlifted via chopper to a hospital geared to deal with this mess i awoke after 5 hours of surgery with a 10 inch or so gash on my upper arm. two more incisions on my forarm were maybe 8 inches each, made by the doctors. plus one on my wrist. they made a 20 inch incision on my thigh to get a donor vein to turn into an artory, that makes it hard to walk. i had a catheter up my dick. i laid in a bed for six days til they let me go home im a 20 yr old cripple. my right arm is mostly numb, and i cant move my hand much. they say the nerves will grow back and i will regain some movement in my hand, but they dont know how much. now i sit here at home, missing finals at school. i cannot play guitar, or juggle, let alone dress myself or tie my shoes. i cant really leave the house. it will be months before i even know if i will ever get much use out of my arm. i could have fallen out that window, and died. i could have slit my throat instead of my arm. those EMTs might have been out for the night. i should be dead. alive, i cant help but get depressed about all this. i need my damn arm be careful people. life changes in a blink
Oh man. Sheep, I can see your point. But like Michael says, there's a reasonable solution for every event in history. If life changes in a blink, then something equally wonderful can happen just as suddenly. You've got to make it happen, of course; that's the big difference. You could take this as an opportunity to do something you never would have done otherwise. I dunno, become the greatest singer in the world. Then when they're interviewing you at the Grammys you can say: "I never would've done it if I had never smashed through that window." I'm dead serious.
i forgot to mention the main purpose of this thread does anyone have any similar experience? or even been in a very different but debilitating accident? or, does anyone have much knowledge of nerve recovery probabiliyies following such an accident? are there good online resorces that evaluate this sort of thing? i want to know as much about this type of injury as possible cheers
