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[Paradigm]

There just seems to be 'something' about the 1st anniversary/1 year landmark... What do other people think?


Do you plan to/did you:

~ Do something special to mark the occasion?


~ Return to the place where you had your accident?


~ Have a birthday cake? (my sister says it's like I was 'born' into a completely different life on that day)


~ Come and talk to your buddies on Apparelyzed about it?


:ddrunk: ~ Get pissed?


~ Mope around the house feeling sorry for yourself?


~ Celebrate surviving your accident?


:cry: ~ Find a dark dingey blues bar and cry into your beer?


~ It's been so long now, you're bored with it/stopped counting?


~ Seek support from your your friends/partner/family?


~ You forgot!!! - You're terrible with birthdays/anniversaries?


~ It's been under a year and you haven't decided/haven't thought about it yet?



Something completely different???



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[Deej]

Around the first anniversary of my injury was a busy time for me - I had only just got back to work a week before, I had got my first car post injury a few days before and we were 2 weeks away from moving into a new bungalow - so for me it was just about remembering the date and thinking "God what a year- wouldn't want to go through that again!" I think we had a bottle of wine. I didn't actually really 'celebrate' the date until the 10 year anniversary when a group of us went out, had champagne, got drunk and were thankful that I had survived.

[Tim13]

Don't think i slowed down enough to even notice the anniversary till about year five, still not entirely clear on the exact date, it was around the 10-12th of October 1992.

[Doug]

My 1 year mark is tomorrow and Im going back to where this all started for me. Being a quad is rough but I made it this far, and as I may look back from time to time, it only shows how much stronger ive gotten. Rolling back to the scene and rembering the moment that changed my life from AB to super sexy rock star in a chair is my plan. This is my life now.....HI IM DOUG JUST THE SITTING VERSION......same guy diffrent position....quick call 911 I cant feel my legs

[Cheshire]

My 1st anniversary is this coming friday the 5th. I'm planning a ghost bike event. If you've never heard of this, check out http://www.ghostbike.org

I'll probably do this every year I'm living here or until the police get fed up with me...then one year more. I'm really wrestling with directly risking ticking off the police because of the way they ignored my hit-and-run...still undecided. Yes, I know risking arrest is stupid...but it might be worth it...don't know yet.

[atvaholic]

i got hurt riding atvs on august 20th 2006 and i wemt riding a year later i plan on riding at the track i got hurt very soon if not on my 2 year anniversary

[darrel]

Cheshire, on Sep 30 2007, 09:51 PM, said:

My 1st anniversary is this coming friday the 5th. I'm planning a ghost bike event. If you've never heard of this, check out http://www.ghostbike.org

I'll probably do this every year I'm living here or until the police get fed up with me...then one year more. I'm really wrestling with directly risking ticking off the police because of the way they ignored my hit-and-run...still undecided. Yes, I know risking arrest is stupid...but it might be worth it...don't know yet.

this is a very well thought idea, with this being your first year, were did you here of this?
my heartattack/fall happened in a barn, and the person who owns it, doesn't want any thing to do with me.

[Cheshire]

darrel, on Sep 30 2007, 06:39 PM, said:

this is a very well thought idea, with this being your first year, were did you here of this?
my heartattack/fall happened in a barn, and the person who owns it, doesn't want any thing to do with me.

Ghost bikes are very well-known in the bicycling community...especially if you talk to/know any bike couriers and/or are in any of the major cities. (I talk to a few via another online community all over the US and lower Canada.) I've known about them for a few years...just never knew anyone to do one for. Ironic the first one I get to do is for me, eh?

[Texaswheelz]

Hmm the first few years I moped about, then for a few more(when i got old enough) I got drunk, for the last decade or so though i haven't done anything. Last year though as my 16th year and seeing that i was 32 and had spent 1/2 my life in a chair and 1/2 out i wanted to get a tattoo, but i couldn't ever come up with something so i never got one and it passed by like most of the others. my 17th year is coming up in Oct.

[silone74]

Hey my accident happened just under 2 weeks before my birthday so all the nurses got cake and i was still on liqiud food so that just was not fair was it? i just enjoy my birthday as a day that i am still alive only gave me an hour to live at first so its a day to be celebrated and live the life that i have now and make it as good as possible by seeing what i can get away with lol i have some great excuses for getting caught speeding as mentioned about the police not being interested in my accident either i like to give them the run around 2



Silone74

[Paradigm]

My accident was November 4th 2006, so nearly a year ago...

I was heading out with a group of friends on motorcycles, going away for a crazy long weekend... (it's an annual thing). I don't remember, but apparently I got into a fight with a car, and the car won. That was only half way into the first day

So I plan to go again this year, but in my new car. I will drive the same route as I was meant to ride a year before, and I will make it to the destination I was meant to get to on that day.

It was my birthday a week after my accident too, and somebody got mixed up and thought it was the weekend of the trip, and had organised for a cake to be waiting at the pub we were going to at the end of the day...
So the people that did carry on for the rest of the trip felt terrible, but couldn't let a great cake go to waste!!

There will be a cake at the end of the road again this year, but not a birthday cake, a survival cake

[sarah : )]

My 2 year anniversary is coming up Oct. 5th!

I know I want to do something special (even though I have to work for a little bit....).
I just don't know yet...
Last year I didn't do much... I just thanked the people that were involved.

Any suggestions??

[Para-pal]

A bunch of us get together every year to celebrate my best friends anniversary including his 2 roommates from the SCI rehab hospital.
We usually go to fun place for dinner and toast all 3 of them and how far they have come and I always make sure I have a cake that says “ YOU ARE AWESOME!” (cuz he really is!  )

[hockeydahc]

i hardly ever think about it. i would never, but invariably someone points it out to me. actually, mine would have been a few weeks ago. I don't celebrate it, nor do I mourn it. I actually forget my own birthday too sometimes. people have to remind me it's coming up or it passes right on by.