Brain Injury: A Short Story

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Jay's Story: My friend Jamie asked me to go to her birthday party. While the ribs were cooking Jamie asked me to take her for a ride on the 4 wheeler(ATV). We all had been drinking but I took her anyway. Neither of us were wearing a helmet. I started to go fast, up to about 85 mph. I tried to go around some brush, but when I swerved the ATV flipped over onto it's side, throwing Jamie off first. Then I slid headfirst into an Austrailian Pine tree. Jamie called her boyfriend Dustin and another friend Mike heard the accident. They came to where we were as fast as they could. Mike was trying to keep everybody calm and back away from me. Jamie rolled me onto my side so I wouldn't drown in my own blood. Dustin being an ex-marine did what he was trained…show more content…
I also flatlined while in the helicopter and they revived me again. When I got to St Marys my heart stopped and once again they brought me back. I needed 4 units each of plasma, platelets and red blood cells. I had compound fractures of both femurs, both my lungs collapsed, numerous broken ribs, an open fracture of my jaw, shattered my right orbital bone, shattered the bones in my right ear canal and several skull fractures resulting in Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).They did not think I would live through the night. No one believed I would live, not the paramedics, the helicopter crew nor the trauma team. I now have a titanium rod in my right leg, a titanium brace in my left leg, a titanium plate in the right side of my face and a screw holding my jaw in place. I was in the intensive care unit from Dec. 18, 2011 until Jan 13, 2012. I was in St Marys accute care hospital until April 13, and released from their rehab hospital on May 4th to go home at last. I cannot yet walk and my brain neglects to recognize my left side, so I cannot use it either. The area of the brain that translates what your eyes see has been damaged so my vision is very bad and I have no depth perception

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