Thanksgiving Day Accident

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So, today we were driving down I-40 to go visit my aunt and uncle for Thanksgiving. We were traveling at a good clip when we saw an SUV with a trailor start to fishtale. After the trailor flipped the SUV flipped and then the trailor popped the SUV back up keeping it from landing on its roof. LUCKY!! So we stopped and all jumped out to help the family and see if they were allright. I automatically went into tunnel vision and back to my training. I had forgotten what it was like to run up and have to check passengers. I loved it and it felt good. So, it took 25 min for the State Troopers, Fire, and EMS to show up and we were out. It was nice to know what to do and run up and be a help to someone and not make matters worse. I miss being a Firefighter!!

My 22nd Birthday

Spent it puking my brains out......fun!!

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of more Morphine

Ah hahaha,

I bet you are all wondering about the new title.......I thought it was clever. So, today marks the 2 week mark of me being home from Thatcher and boy-o-boy is life ever just grand. I do not know what is a worse position to be in; Home alone pretty much 24/7 or having to wake up ever 3 hours to get poked by a nurse. Hold on, I would take the second choice ANY day!! I think that if I did not have my new xbox 360 and Fable 2 to play all day I would probably go mentally insane. Yes, being alone also has its depressive tendancies.......so says Blue Cross/Blue Sheild of Arizona. Thank god for Celexa, Mountain Dew, and South Park!! So, along with all of these wonderful oppertunities to be depressed the Dr. wants me to start mt own Physical Therapy........HAHAHA, RIGHT. If there is anyting any more depressive then not being able to walk to the kitchen from the living room (Approx. 60 or so feet) with out being in the worse pain of yoiur life then by all means, Let Me Know!! If it seriously for the high and lethal doeses of narcotics running through my blood stream I probably would have cut my leg off with a DeWalt redipricating saw or something. FYI......SURGERY SUX!!

The Trip Back to the Hospital!

So, Today was an amazing day. I woke up at like the butt crack of dawn today. Man o mam was I not happy about that. But Anywho, I had breakfast and made my way down to the wonderful town of Thatcher. Today was my checkup with Dr. Carter! YAY!!! So,I get to the hospital and pretty much get rushed right in to get everything checked out. After taking, well pretty much ripping, off all fo my bandages Dr. Carter was happy with the resluts. He told me that I could start walking on my leg again!! Yay, now I can start my own rehab! Whitney was there to see me take my first steps and pretty much laughed at me. It was nice to see her and spend much dreamed of time with her. So, I go mack in 2 weeks and see Dr. Carter again so he can check on the status of the leg again. I am just glad to be walking again!!

Life After the Hospital

You never realize what you have and who you have until it is long gone on the horizon. Laying incompacitated on a hospital bed for the sum and total of 45 days can really get you to think about your life and how you are living it. When you have lived against everything you have been taught and you honestly deep down inside believe, it can take its toll on you and drive you nearly insane. While laying on my back and nearly losing my mind, I found that my life was honestly spinning out of control to the point where I didn't know which way was up. It is amazing to me how fast you can lose your way. Prayer helped me in that hospital. Prayer from me, friends, family, and people who I have never met. It is amazing to me how the people in our religon pull together to help out everyone. I have never felt such comfort and peace ever before in my life. The Lord is the most amazing older brother that anyone can have, ever!! It has taken me 22 years to realize it but the LDS church is just amazing.
When you are in the hospital for a month and a few days you have alot of time to just lay in bed and think. I happened to think about life and what exactly was wrong in my life. Then it hit me, I was not doing what I needed to do to live a happy life. I realized, in room 14, that I needed to change. I love my life, I love my family, I love my girlfriend, I love my friends, and I love the lord. I vowed from then on I would live my life according to the gospel.