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#1 User is offline   Loyde Mcillwain 

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Posted 27 January 2009 - 05:56 AM

My Name is Loyde Mcillwain, I have been a T-12 since 2001 after being injured in a fall, I am now hospitalized with some new injury, I had a car accident in Nov 08 and broke C-2, C-3,C-4,C-6,T-1,T-6 along with my pelvis and both arms were broken and nearly severed and a head injury, Its a miracle I did not get any new spinal cord damage, My car flipped more than 900 feet with me hanging out. I was wearing a seat belt.

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I currently work as a Military consultant/Technical Advisor for a Major series of Military heritage websites
90% of what I say is common sense, the other 30% is pure genuis!!!!
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#2 User is offline   longhaul 

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Posted 27 January 2009 - 06:14 AM

Hey Loyde Welcome, Damn! My grandson is Army 4th Infantry headed to Afghanistan in May.
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#3 User is offline   JesseB 

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Posted 27 January 2009 - 06:16 AM

Hey loyde, welcome. :)
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#4 User is offline   Loyde Mcillwain 

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Posted 27 January 2009 - 06:24 AM

I have about 2 more months in the hospital, I am at the VA in Houston Tx, I sure feel like I dodged a bullet in my wreck
90% of what I say is common sense, the other 30% is pure genuis!!!!
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#5 User is offline   jass1 

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Posted 27 January 2009 - 06:45 AM

HI loyde welcome to the site
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Posted 27 January 2009 - 07:37 AM

Hi Loyde
That's some lucky escape. You've probably had your share of dramatic accidents now.
Stephen Hawking, physicist, cosmologist and something of a dreamer:
Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free.
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Posted 27 January 2009 - 10:14 PM

Hello Loyde -

More than likely, you'll enjoy this site a bunch. Like Nomis' comment, a friend once told me that each of us is allotted two catastophes during our lifetimes. Two events that change everything. I think you've filled your bill. "Tread lightly," bro.
Obey little. Resist much. -Whitman
Irrevence is the champion of liberty and its only defense. -Twain
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