My name is Dylan Bachman. Iam now 17 years old. On Friday April 7,2000 I went to school like any other Friday morning. My friends and I had been planning a camping trip that night at the creek. One of my new friends had gotten his parents van that day and that night. We cut school last peroid to go swimming. The very first time I ever cut school. On the way back from swimming, My friend ran a stop sign. That decision my friend made then changed my life. And my Familys also. We were T-boned by a semi-truck and pushed about 20 feet. I was sitting behind my new friend, the driver. My friend Steven was sitting nest to me. Steven was the one who got the most of the impack. Now we were sitting off the road sideways. My friend Steven and I were trapped inside. We live in a small town in Northern California. We are about 20 miles from the best Hospital in the area. We were hurt very bad. We both inhaled some vomit and were having convulations. Our brains were then not getting the oxgyen it needed. We were dying... Steven's heart stopped! It the jaws of life to get us out of that van. Steven was then air lifted to town I went by Ambulance. My Family heard the Ambulance taking me to the Hospital. They didnt know it was me , but my Mother said she knew something was different about the sound of the sirerns. Well from here my Mom will tell the rest. I really dont remember any of the accident. In fact I do not remember any of that day or about a week and half before the accident. I only know what I have been told.....It was the worst thing I have ever went through in my life. So many things go through your mind when you get the phone call. A womens voice is telling me I should come to the Hospital. You think about how bad it will be... Then you are still thinking it cant be so bad....Then when you are told "Your son was brought in in critical condition." Well your legs give out on you, your heart sinks into your gut,and then your head starts to swim. What to do???? Dylan has a older brother who moved out 6 months ago. Nick is going to college up North. Kyndal is Dylan's younger brother and Krystina is Dylan"s sister. She is 13. Dylan was in a induced coma for 11 days. He was hooked up to nine different machines. Each one doing the job of keeping him alive. We were now in the world of TBI..... So unknowing, so unreal, so messed up... Well we tried to keep going but it was so hard. We ate but we were not hungry. We tried to sleep but we were too tired to sleep.
