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#1 User is offline   jaquie_farmer 

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Posted 20 February 2009 - 08:15 PM

i'm just trying to find someone to relate to. =]
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Posted 20 February 2009 - 08:18 PM

Me, 17. My accident happend about 4 days before the start of my senior year. :/
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Posted 20 February 2009 - 08:20 PM

I had just turned 14 before my injury. That was back in 2000 :)
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Posted 20 February 2009 - 08:22 PM

My wreck was a week after my 18th birthday.
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Posted 20 February 2009 - 08:23 PM

View Postlil jo, on Feb 20 2009, 03:22 PM, said:

My wreck was a week after my 18th birthday.


mine was like a month before i turned 18.
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Posted 20 February 2009 - 08:43 PM

Mine happend 11 days b4 my 18th birthday. today is my 3 year anniversary
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Posted 20 February 2009 - 08:54 PM

View PostKev-O, on Feb 20 2009, 03:43 PM, said:

Mine happend 11 days b4 my 18th birthday. today is my 3 year anniversary


ugh it was such a bummer. i was so flippin' excited to turn 18.
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Posted 20 February 2009 - 09:03 PM

View Postjaquie_farmer, on Feb 20 2009, 03:54 PM, said:

View PostKev-O, on Feb 20 2009, 03:43 PM, said:

Mine happend 11 days b4 my 18th birthday. today is my 3 year anniversary


ugh it was such a bummer. i was so flippin' excited to turn 18.

Oh yeah i know i couldn't wait to go out an buy all the stuff i couldn't before but nooooooooo instead i had my birthday in the ICU.
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Posted 20 February 2009 - 09:37 PM

i know how you feel, i spent my 22nd bday in the ICU. not fun at all.
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Posted 20 February 2009 - 09:39 PM

Yes, a car accident a couple months after I turned 17. I'd also only been driving for a few weeks when it happened. But that was 11 years ago.
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Posted 20 February 2009 - 10:23 PM

Mine happened a month before turning 18. But that was 32 years ago. The only advice I have is to just take it a day at a time and try your best to live your life as if the SCI doesn't really change things. Sure the SCI does "change things" but in the end you still have to get up and go to work, you have to do chores around the house, you have to live your life just like everyone else has to. The big difference is we get to play the game of life on hard mode while everyone else plays on easy.

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Post icon  Posted 21 February 2009 - 07:54 AM

About 4 months before my 15th birthday we went out to dinner to celebrate my Aunt's birthday. On the way in I had a sign fall on my head: caused brain injury, numerous dislocations, and a break at L-2 with a spinal cord abrasion.

And yeah high school changed BIG TIME! I went from having all these different circles (several different sports, honors program, church, and others) then went to the person they waved at & said hi to but never hung out with anymore because I couldn't do many-most of the things I could before. Rather than whizzing through college prep and honors courses and still getting A's I struggled with "regular classes" just to get a C. Oh goody TBI's (Traumatic Brain Injury). Lucky me.......I got the "CNS combo package" ;)

But that was almost 20yrs ago. ;)
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Posted 22 February 2009 - 01:32 AM

I was a few months shy of my thirteenth birthday; I'm now almost 17.
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Posted 22 February 2009 - 02:23 AM

I was 16 years old, an above average athlete, I was talking with 2 different university's about scholarships.. i had it all figured out.. then BAM. lights out, no more football no more life.. so i thought. now i wouldnt change anything that happened for the world it taught me about life, and alot about people and what we are.
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Posted 22 February 2009 - 05:53 AM

i had just turned 18...my accident was in aug 07, so im now 19, i was 2 days into college
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Posted 22 February 2009 - 02:09 PM

I had my aaaccident when I youst turned 18 in november 2007 and now I am stuck in a stupid wheelchair but what could we do about it life is a bitch so whe have to move on.Some people like being paralyzed they say its fun,me I dont find nothing fun in being in a wheelchair.I have to deal with all this nerve pain that I have alat of medication for it and it doesnt seem to go away.So life bieng paralyzed for me a some people could be painful

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Posted 22 February 2009 - 03:40 PM

Hey I was 18, now just turned 21
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Posted 22 February 2009 - 08:46 PM

I was 18, now 37..time goes by so fast.
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Posted 22 February 2009 - 09:05 PM

I was 18 and a month, but am now a knackered old 44.

The older I've got the more I realise that I've missed out on in this rather poor existence as a tetra.

But you've got a whole life to live in front of you, and as you only have one, you have to make as good of it as you can.

Good luck!

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Posted 22 February 2009 - 09:06 PM

Oh and by the way.....your gorgeous.. :doh:
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Posted 23 February 2009 - 03:12 AM

my sister was 16...it will be three years this may
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Posted 23 February 2009 - 04:07 AM

View Postcubanito_016, on Feb 22 2009, 06:09 AM, said:

Some people like being paralyzed they say its fun,me I dont find nothing fun in being in a wheelchair.


Who in gods name have you met who likes being paralyzed and say's that it's fun????
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Posted 23 February 2009 - 11:45 PM

I was 17 and that is four years ago now.My 18th birthday was in the hospital and it was one of the worst days of my life.I always looked forward to that birthday partying and having fun instead I had a uti that week.My biggest fear that day and today is growing old in the chair I'm 21.

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Posted 24 February 2009 - 12:46 AM

i was 17 n now im 19...n i definitely fell like Andrew i had everything going for me and was looking at some college for soccer when bam..life was changed..but i cant change the cards i have only how i play em

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Posted 24 February 2009 - 01:39 AM

View PostAbdifatah28, on Feb 23 2009, 06:45 PM, said:

I was 17 and that is four years ago now.My 18th birthday was in the hospital and it was one of the worst days of my life.I always looked forward to that birthday partying and having fun instead I had a uti that week.My biggest fear that day and today is growing old in the chair I'm 21.


strange: i spent my 18th biday in the hospital and also had a uti.
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Posted 24 February 2009 - 01:41 AM

View Postjaquie_farmer, on Feb 23 2009, 08:39 PM, said:

View PostAbdifatah28, on Feb 23 2009, 06:45 PM, said:

I was 17 and that is four years ago now.My 18th birthday was in the hospital and it was one of the worst days of my life.I always looked forward to that birthday partying and having fun instead I had a uti that week.My biggest fear that day and today is growing old in the chair I'm 21.


strange: i spent my 18th biday in the hospital and also had a uti.

Well that makes 3 of us that spent our 18th in the hospital haha woot.
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Posted 24 February 2009 - 01:44 AM

View PostKev-O, on Feb 23 2009, 08:41 PM, said:

View Postjaquie_farmer, on Feb 23 2009, 08:39 PM, said:

View PostAbdifatah28, on Feb 23 2009, 06:45 PM, said:

I was 17 and that is four years ago now.My 18th birthday was in the hospital and it was one of the worst days of my life.I always looked forward to that birthday partying and having fun instead I had a uti that week.My biggest fear that day and today is growing old in the chair I'm 21.


strange: i spent my 18th biday in the hospital and also had a uti.

Well that makes 3 of us that spent our 18th in the hospital haha woot.


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Posted 24 February 2009 - 04:15 AM

I was 17 and it happened just two months into my senior year of high school. The rest of my senior year was a real suckfest. That was 13 years ago though...14 this upcoming October.

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Posted 24 February 2009 - 05:27 PM

ryan was 18 on saturday ! :mfromg:
managed to get home for the day for the 2nd time just! was great :yikes:
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Posted 24 February 2009 - 06:15 PM

16 When I had mine 18 1/2 years ago. A life changing experience no doubt, for the better or worse? Who knows, I can't say where I would be had I not got injured, it's a pretty good assumption that I wouldn't have ended up where I was at in college when i met my wife.
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