DecPhoMo 9**

 

 "emotion"

 I gave this one a lot of thought – who am I supposed to spark emotions in?  Sleeping on it, I figure if it sparked emotion in me, good enough for the prompt.

Disbelief:

April 23, 1998

This was my car, a 1985 Mercury Marquis.  I look at this pic now and it’s hard to believe that I was in that twisted metal… and didn’t get fucked up worse than I was.

* I did not ‘walk away’ from this.  It took ’em 53 minutes to get me out of the wreck and to the hospital (and how lucky was I that OHSU trauma center is right up the hill from the bridge I crashed on?).  The car died right there.  I spent weeks in a comatose state with head injuries and internal injuries – collapsed lungs, trauma to internal organs.  I didn’t really wake up and come back to myself until June.  59 days in hospital(s) – 3 of them.  Nearly eight months in an Adult Foster Care Home.  4 years unable to work.  I put a lot of effort into learning to walk again.

It was a life changing experience.

*****

**DO NOT DRINK AND DRIVE**