Thank you, my point exactly. I rest my case. Thanks Kel.
josh
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kel girl" <rambler776@...>
To: <CKMBCmembers@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 8:34 PM
Subject: [CKMBCmembers] Quote of the day


> What Brad said really struck me.
>
> It's true you should live life as if you have no tommorrow, but you should
> also respect life because there may be a tommorrow.
>
> I'm sure everyone knows of stories of people who had made studip decisions
> or just had accidents doing risky stuff, but I have one more for you. I
> have died twice. Not the hindi stuff about past reincarnation, but
actually
> being resecuted twice.
>
> I guess I should begin at the beginning. When I was 16, my family had 5
> horses. One of these, was only half broken in and very difficult to
control
> especially when he got scared. He was also very fast. Consequentially,
he
> was my favorite. The day after Thanksgiving in 1996, my mom, sister, and
I
> took three horse out for an extended ride. Since we rode western it
wasn't
> customary to wear a helmet, so we never thought to wear one. On the way
> back, my horse spoked and ran. He tried to turn on a nearby road and
> slipped. falling he slammed me into the ground.
> I was immediately knocked uncontious. Within a minute, my brain began to
> swell and I went into shock. My heart stopped for the first time before
the
> ambulance arrived. My mom performed CPR on me until they did. My heart
> stopped again at the hopital. Afterwards, they preformed a craniotomy
> removing the top left 1/4 of my skull. I was in a coma for two weeks.
>
> When I woke up, I couldn't do anything. Eat, drink, talk, walk, write,
> laugh, think. My left side was paralyzed. Three weeks after I came out of
> the coma, my IQ was measured; it had fallen from 118 to 83. I was in the
> hospital for 4 months for rehab. During that time they replace the piece
of
> skull they removed, but my skull will never completely fuse back together.
> There are still places on my head where the pieces don't quite come
together
> (one place they are a figer-wigth apart). It also means that I have a
good
> chance of dying from a blow any harder than a mild concussion.
>
> Today I have to live with the effects of that accident. They may not be
> much physical effects left except for a weaker left side (even though I am
> left-handed), a decreased sense of balance, and a left arm that does not
> swing unless I tell it too, but there are plenty of mental disabilities I
> have to contend with especially learning diabilities that have symtoms
like
> ADD, dislexia, discalcula (trouble with numbers and time), and anomia
> (extreme difficulty remembering words/names). My IQ is almost back up to
> where it was before if you compensate for the learning disabilities.
>
> In the hospital, I met a man who had broken his back by stepping off a
curb.
> Two years afterwards he still could not feed himself, and struggled to
> take ten steps. He had no choice what happened to him, but his one main
> regret was not doing more with his life when he could.
>
> I definately take more risks and do more "crazy" stuff since the accident;
I
> know life is fleeting so we should live the fullest we can. But I also
> value life. I don't want to take unnecessary risks that might or will
> lessen the quality of my life even more in the future.
>
> So go have fun on the trails, but think twice before taking unescessary
> risks. Hopefully I'll see some of you out there.
>
> --Kel
>
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