[Captain Pike]

The date is the 16th, a technicality because we crashed the car quarter after midnight. We had finished up the taxes, popped the envelopes in the mail and headed down state to meet friends and go to a seminar, have dinner... a full day.

A big Mama skunk waddled out in front of us, we swerved momentarily, skated into the soft stuff, lost control flipped over and landed on the roof, hyper compressing me against my shoulder strap -- I couldn't breathe -- blacked out and I died.

Woke up -- bright lights, lots of different sounds, people talking, equipment squawking -- some things in my face, down my throat!

You guys all know the rest...

[Tired of hurting]

Well Captain I'm glad you made it. I know today was a hard one for you they always are. God blessed you! You would have missed out on those wagon rides with the kids and the dogs. The kids would have missed out too. Be thankful for your time here...Hope your trip was a good one...Heres to another year of lessons to be learned...

This post has been edited by Tired of hurting: 17 April 2008 - 01:48 AM

[qbounce]

Hi Cap'n,

I remember your recent post stating how you possibly weren't going to be visiting here anymore for awhile. . . glad your still hear !

My three year will be this Oct., and it's amazing to me the changes I've gone through in that short span of time. But also, how much I'm still capable of doing. For me, things are getting easier as time goes on. . . I hope your feeling the same.

But, doesn't it suck that we'll remember this date engraved in our lives much like an anniversary/ birthday? Certainly it was life changing in the same way those dates are, just not in a pleasant way.

Hopefully, in time, I'll forget this date just as I do my anniversary and significant others b-day!!

[jass1]

My car crash on the 8th 3 years ago a round the same of the night we where fishing,I went to get dinner then I had stroke on the way, my heart stopped at least 4 times

[wheeliebear75]

Hey I too am glad to see you didn't bail.

Well you may have died that night.........but at least you were brought back. Let's all hear it for the "Got Brought Back" club.

I remember that I got hurt 4/28/90 but I choose to look at it as "the day I didn't die" rather than the day I became disabled.....it's less depressing that way.

[chefzapp]

I feel ya, April 17, 2006 for me. So I am a year and a day from you. Well just cuz my heart stopped doesnt mean i died, haha. The halo flight ems came to my room a few days later and just smiled, he said i knew ud be alright. Apparently I punched him in the face when he was trying to put oxygen mask on me, and told him he should have left me on the beach if they were gonna kill me. Guess what i mean is that death was never an option, lying on the side of the road(car accident) I knew id never walk again. My bestfriend who was unscathed, told me if u dont chill out u r gonna die(hurt real bad). I remember making a mental decesion, this will not take my life away. I have so much more to do. I am just trying to say I know my life is as rich and fulfilling as any other person, probably more than most. So this date means more to me than a birthday, it is not the day my ability to walk was taken. It is the date of my awaking to: the fragility of life, love of friends and family, and my second chance. I try to tell myself all the time not to forget this opportunity and earn each day on this mudball. Well i could babble all day, remember each and every1 of us has something to contribute to this world!

[nomis]

I think time can fade the significance of an accident anniversary or maybe it's just senility creeping in. I know I was paraplegicized in 1970 but I have to rack my brain to the day. I think Feb 11 but it might have been 10 and I'm somewhat certain it was Feb and not Jan. If you want to preserve the anniversary memory then I guess you just keep on celebrating or whatever it is you do to mark it.

[longhaul]

Forget-a-bout it....................really

[E-DOG]

Mine's comin' up in the early part of May. I've already forgotten exactly which day, and this will be the first one, but then again it's not something I feel I need to remember. I have so many other pleasant memories, why stuff more crap into an already overcrowded space?

Hell, I'm having trouble trying to remember where I put that joint I just rolled
Who's got a light? 420, you got one?

E-dog