So let me start out by saying this is not a pitty story, I’m not looking for sympathy, I just need to vent a little bit of stress…
So anyways, april 15th 2005 was an average day, I had been playing world of warcraft all day when a friend of mine invited me to go ride some bmx trails ‘a few towns over’…so I thought I’d go even though I’m not that good at riding trails just to get out of the house…
Anyways, we get there, start riding, and just as I thought…I was pretty sketchy…but sitting around and watching wasn’t much fun so I finally decided to give the “racer 8pack” a shot…just a bunch of low and long doubles…first try I cased the first one, not a big deal, after 10 minutes of fixing up the landing I decided to give it another shot…so I took a few more cranks, Big problem, I over shot the landing and and fell head first into the next jump…
I’m not really sure about everything else after that, but I remember complaining to my friends that my chest hurt extremely bad, as did my back…things got worse from there, while I was laying there trying to figure out what to do, screaming from pain, I could feel a strange tingling sensation in my legs, then I couldn’t feel them at all…
Long story short, after a short ride in in a firetruck, ambulence, then life flight hellicopter…I ended up at the hospital. I was in the the ICU when a neurosurgeon came in after looking at my x-rays and MRIs and told me the worst thing I’ve ever heard, he said that I had fractured my T10 and T12 vertabrae…and that I would never walk again, but luckily I was on a lot of morphine so that’s pretty fuzzy…
The next day I had surgery on my spine, the surgeon put in a titanium rod and a few screws to support my back, so after the surgery which went great, at first I was just able to move my toes a bit, then a few days I was able to stand with assistance, walk with the use of paralell bars, now I’m in a rehab center, my surgeon and therapists are amazed with my progression…today I was able to walk 200ft with a walker and climb 4 stairs…it doesn’t sound like much, but it’s better than nothing…
I still have a hard time accepting what has happened to me, I’m still waiting for it to fully sink in. Today is the first day I’ve had internet access in 2 weeks, and it’s only dial up…sigh…I’ll probably have to be at this rehab center another 2-3 weeks before I can go home…such is life though, I just look forward to the day that I can take this brace off, (It’s like a turtle shell), or the day that I can walk with out assistance…hopefully that day isn’t too far away, I’m guessing about 6 months to a year…maybe more, hopefully less… 
