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um, about my tbi..... it happened when i was 13 in 96'. infact on September 5 of 96'. it will be 2 years this September. um i had a class five brain injury. it happened when i was walking home from a physical from school, that was being conducted so i could try out for the school's basketball team. i was walking and i needed to cross four lanes of traffic with a little intersection in the middle. i started my way across... realized that i couldn't get all the way across, and stopped at the intersection. a woman supposedly abruptly stopped, as the witnesses say, and waved me on. well, being the child i was, i didn't look, and of course neither did the woman who waved me on.... so i started to cross, only to be interrupted by a Volvo going 45 miles per hour. the car struck me, breaking my right leg, my pelvis, the bone right under my right eye, lacerating my liver, and breaking my cox bone. damage that was made to the car that hit me was a tremendously large indent in the hood, and a broken window. after hitting the car, i flew over it, landing on my back, i guess.... i have a scar now on the right side of my back, where i slid on the pavement. i was med. flight'ed to the nearest medical facility that could handle my condition. I spent three weeks in the ICU, then was transferred to a rehabilitation hospital. there I spent three months as an inpatient trying to relearn the basic necessities of life. this went from speaking, to eating, to even the simple act of going to the bathroom. i had broken three bones in my right leg and i had pins put into it to straighten out what was left of my leg. therefore, i didnot start to walk until my second month in the hospital. my balance was also off.... therefore relating to numerous falls and so on. my coordination was horrible and i now had no want to participate in activities such as exercise.i longed for an explanation of why this had happened to me, and why the people i had loved as friends were treating me the way they did, muchless why i didn't have the mental or physical compasities that i had before. through a little denial and having no self confidence for the first year of my new found life, i have gotten to where i am today..... trying to forget what a horrible thing i have gone through and trying to act more like a human being . so, that's my life story and i'm glad that you took the time to read how my life, as of now, has been destroyed. my everso young life. all that i have gotten out of it is a wonder in god, and a little poetic injustice and a realization of just how inconsiderate and shallow the teens of today are.