I'm no stranger to pain
I have face the threat of death more than once. The first time I was 10 years old. I was on holiday to Spain with friends. One time when we were going out for dinner I was not feeling well so I was allowed to go and rest in the car so I climbed into the back middle seat and did not put my belt on. The father of the friends who I was staying with had an argument about who was going to drive. He got in the car and drove off leaving them behind and me in the back seat of the car asleep and unaware of what was happening. He crashed head on with a bus. We were going at 60 and the bus 50. I was ejected through the bus. My body was impaled with glass. I broke my legs in more than 10 places each, my hips were destroyed, ribs and a few vertebrae were fractured. My arms were almost so ruined that they going to amputate but thankfully decided against it. My collar bones and skull were also fractured. The glass in my chest had ruptured several internal organs including my right lung and wind pipe. I woke up drowning in my own blood in the hospital. Had over 30 operations to fix my skeleton . Staying in the hospital for 8 months felt like prison. I thankfully made an almost full recovery in 2 years. I decided to impress everyone by getting a paper round. 4 months in a drunk driver hit me on my bike. I suffered a compound fracture in my ankle and pretty much my whole leg. I hit my head and suffered minor brain damage. The experiences taught me that I should never take anything for granted. I have become rather religious and I can understand what people with cancer have to go through every day
