“That’s it. That’s all it took. Five minutes to change my entire life.”
‘It was playtime on the playground. My student looked anxious. I climbed to get closer to him, placed my foot on the rail and tumbled, hitting my head on a metal pole. I fell to the ground.’
‘I gave my last hug to my mom and sister-in-law, Taylor. Our car hit a puddle, hydroplaned, flipped 3 times and hit a tree.’
“Jacob talks of that night and the reality of how nightmarish it was. When he came to, my head was dripping blood and he thought there was no way I could still be alive.”
‘Last night I was a mama alone in the ER with my sick baby. As my feverish child sobbed, I paced the waiting room. There was panic across faces.’
“But as I would learn, I wasn’t actually alone.”
‘I was ejected and thrown 50 feet from my car. I died that day. I knew I couldn’t feel my legs, but I didn’t know why. I was told I would never walk again.’
“I think every girl dreams of walking down the aisle to her husband. I had pictured it in my head since I was a little girl. I didn’t want that picture to play out differently just because of my accident. So I chased my dream.”
‘I was staring at the scale in disbelief. The needle stopped at 320 pounds. I knew I wasn’t skinny by any means, but was I really 320 pounds?!’
“Yes, I had always been one of the bigger boys, but I was never ‘fat.’ I was a football player. A wrestler. A soccer player. I was big, but athletic.”
‘Ginger ale slowly fermented and turned into a bomb. It detonated at the exact moment she walked passed it. The force of the blast knocked her unconscious to the ground.’
“Shelly was busy and didn’t pour it out right away.”
‘Nobody sets out to be a junkie, an addict. I certainly never did’: Police officer admits ‘humiliating’ spiral to addiction after on-duty injury
“I was a shell of the person I formerly was. This has been humbling, humiliating and a real struggle.”
‘Colton may not live. I need people to realize the seriousness of a head injury.’: Mom’s plea after 6-month-old rolls off bed
“This started from him falling from a bed that is only 2 feet off the ground.”
‘She was internally decapitated’: Urgent warning about ‘minimum requirements’ for forward-facing car seats
“Her seat was correctly installed according to the car seat requirements.”