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August 4, 2007
Posted On 10/20/2009 03:36:25 by Yetco

I am 19 years old but two years ago I felt like I was on top of the world. I was a star basketball player in high school and my life was going perfect until my near fatal day August 4, 2007. On August 4, 2007 I was in a car accident... the night before I was working at the Great American cookie store until 10 PM and when I got home it was around 11 and I'm never tired when I get home from work so, I was watching TV and then I got on the computer till 2:04 a.m. and that's when I went to sleep. I had to wake up at seven in the morning to take my cousin to work, so I only got five hours of sleep and I was extremely tired, but, I never say no. So, I got up and took her and usually I drive her there and then I drive back but this morning I was too tired so I told her to drive their and I will drive back. When I got in the driver’s seat sitting in the parking lot I asked myself, “should I go into the mall and get something to drink to wake me up or not " and I kept thinking and thinking what I should do but I was so tired I just said forget it. When I was driving back everything was going okay and I actually felt wide awake and by this time it was 7:30 in the morning. I made a right turn on Mac Hatcher road and since it was so early in the morning there were literally no cars on the road and Mac Hatcher road is just a straight line down with no turns at all. When I drive, I always drive on the left side of the road and not the right side unless I am going to turn so as I was driving down Mac Hatcher road I didn't want to hear or feel anything, so I put all the windows up so the wind wouldn't hit my face and cut the music off so I wouldn't hear the music and that was the mistake I made. So while I was driving, I thought I saw my friend's car so I texted him to see if it was him and when he wrote me back he said it wasn't him so I put my phone back down and then out of nowhere, I just fell asleep. My car drifted all the way to the right side of the road and hit a big rock that was implanted in the ground and my car flipped three times in the air and I landed in a deep ditch and the next time I woke up, I was in the hospital... The level of my spinal cord injury is C4 C5 and I am classified as a quadriplegic. Since then, I have changed a lot, in a bad way and a good way...... The bad way is that I am not able to walk anymore and can't function like I used to and for the good way, I feel I have become a better person.... I still have the same mind and personality like I had before the accident...... I still laugh and watch TV and do everything like I did before. I just want to say thank you to everybody who has been supporting me and praying for me since.  This is my motto for everybody... keep doing what you do and don't let no one bring you down...

 

"Yetco"



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From: Yetco
11/09/2009 22:35:22

Sorry it took so long for me to get back to you but I appreciate your comments. I see it has been really rough for you to and it makes it even worse because you got hurt around the age of 30 while you already lived half of your life. And yea, even though something that happened I still believe everything happens for a reason. I always keep my head up though no matter what.


You are doing a lot of good things for people and it's good that you never gave up. A lot of people do when they get hurt like this but as long as you can still communicate, see, and eat with family and friends then we shouldn't complain about anything. that's just how I look at it and I feel you 100% about being too young and too pretty. I feel I'm too young and too handsome, I got hurt at 17 still in high school.


I'm also taken psychology... and Yes, CAPRICORN's are the best LOL...


Have a nice day and be safe


Yetco


 purtygurl wrote:


Hey! Yetco;




So how are doing lately? Where are you posting your comments now? I became disabled at around 30, and just recently at 39-yrs-old have had to move to an electric wheelchair. I so appreciate your story, because sometimes I feel depressed and sorry for myself. For example, I feel I am too young, too pretty, too nice, and that I have too many years left to be in this condition. Feeling limited in what I can do; makes me feel sorry for myself, not all the time, just some times. But, as always, when I feel this way I come here to DW and find inspiration from one member, after another! Once again, I find my life is okay and I should just remain grateful for life period. I attend University of Phoenix, On-Line classes, and just graduated with an Associates Degree in Psychology and I am beginning the Bachelor's in Psychology Program next week. I am a Counsler at a Women's Center, so I aid women mostly young women in Crisis Pregnancy Counseling, Pro-Life issues, Relationship Counseling, Post-Abortion Traumatic Syndrome, and just life in gereal counseling. I work part-time in the office of a family member's business... So as you can see I live a pretty full-life for a disabled woman. but, sometimes I still feel lonely; in that there is no one like me in my life. No one that understands the ups and downs of having limitations such as we do. I have many friends, but they don't know what it is like to be permanently disabled, as in forever and forever.




Thanks for sharing and think about making me a freind of yours, so we can chat some time. purtygurl



From: purtygurl
11/08/2009 21:53:22

Hey! Yetco;


So how are doing lately? Where are you posting your comments now? I became disabled at around 30, and just recently at 39-yrs-old have had to move to an electric wheelchair. I so appreciate your story, because sometimes I feel depressed and sorry for myself. For example, I feel I am too young, too pretty, too nice, and that I have too many years left to be in this condition. Feeling limited in what I can do; makes me feel sorry for myself, not all the time, just some times. But, as always, when I feel this way I come here to DW and find inspiration from one member, after another! Once again, I find my life is okay and I should just remain grateful for life period. I attend University of Phoenix, On-Line classes, and just graduated with an Associates Degree in Psychology and I am beginning the Bachelor's in Psychology Program next week. I am a Counsler at a Women's Center, so I aid women mostly young women in Crisis Pregnancy Counseling, Pro-Life issues, Relationship Counseling, Post-Abortion Traumatic Syndrome, and just life in gereal counseling. I work part-time in the office of a family member's business... So as you can see I live a pretty full-life for a disabled woman. but, sometimes I still feel lonely; in that there is no one like me in my life. No one that understands the ups and downs of having limitations such as we do. I have many friends, but they don't know what it is like to be permanently disabled, as in forever and forever.


Thanks for sharing and think about making me a freind of yours, so we can chat some time. purtygurl

From: Yetco
10/22/2009 23:02:44

Thank you for your comment and I appreciate that.


 suelill wrote:


Hi Yetco,




Thanks for sharing your story with us and well done for coping so well with such a horrendous accident.  You have a really good attitude and many people could do well to learn from you.




Regards,  Sue



From: suelill
10/22/2009 14:20:46

Hi Yetco,


Thanks for sharing your story with us and well done for coping so well with such a horrendous accident.  You have a really good attitude and many people could do well to learn from you.


Regards,  Sue

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