Carrie, Truck Collision
...Witnesses tell me that while I was driving, I gradually crossed the centerline and hit a tractor-trailer head on.....I suffered from numerous injuries; a fractured kneecap, fractured mandible, countless facial lacerations and fractured bones, fractured ribs, dislocated hip, spleenectomy, and a pneumothorax. And the most serious, yet also somewhat undetermined and inconclusive, injury included a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI)....
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Mike, Collapse Of Bow Stand While Hunting
....I remember all the visitors in the hospitals and at home, I enjoyed their company and appreciated their concern but, the one thing they couldn't provide is someone to speak to that truly had firsthand knowledge of what I was going though. Sure, the doctors and nurses treat hundreds of patients just like us, but they are always looking down at the bed never up from it....
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Pat, Wind Shorn Roof Injury
...There are many things I have learned through the recovery process. I have learned to live one day at a time and enjoy each and every day. I enjoy the little things that I never noticed before and I appreciate the gift of just being alive.....
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Rob, Motorcycle Accident
...My injuries were the following; fractured my maxillary bone, right lung collapsed, severed my superior vena cava, liver laceration( they took off 60%), bruised my bladder, right femur broke into two and popped out of my skin, and broke my left foot in 3 different places in the metacarpals. It took 5 days to get me stable....
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Scott, Struck By a Car
.... when a car, travelling at high speed, hit him when he was walking in a street. He suffered lung damage, heart damage, a fractured vertebrae, broken vertebral processes, broken ribs, multiple right tibia/fibula fractures with severe muscle and nerve damage, broken right arm broken, broken collarbone and shoulder blades, a spleen damaged so badly it had to be removed, and brain damage from oxygen loss......
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Shannon, Thrown From A Car
....As my body laid far from the car, I entered into a dream-like state, with scenes of my life flashing before me. I saw my family and friends but as I reached towards them I was pulled back into my body at the scene of the accident. I began feeling the pulse of my heart and hearing my name being yelled but I was unable to move or answer. I believe my Dad, who passed away before I was born, helped me survive....
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Sharon, Fell From a Cliff
....I understand how it happens,” she said. “No one ever thinks it’s going to happen to them......
Great account and she is the founder of the National Trauma Institute
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Steve, Head On Auto Collison
...The larger challenge for me was the emotional recovery. I had other issues going on at the time; my mom died of cancer 6 weeks after I was cut out of that car, so there were a lot of issues for me at the time. It took years of struggle to get past that difficult period, but in retrospect; that period of my life ended up as a blessing.....
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Therese, Iraqi War Injury
...She remembers only searing pain; everything else she knows about the attack comes from other people, from news accounts and photos, and from the reminders of that day that are permanently etched into her arms and legs, her jaw and torso.....
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Tim, Mortar Attack In Iraq
...They train together. They fight together. So if wounded, why shouldn’t they go through recovery together? This was the question that Lt. Col. Tim Maxwell asked about his fellow marines being discharged from the hospital and left alone to recover from injuries of war.....
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