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you can't change the past cause its gooone
Oh wow.
So for gym today, we went to sunnybrooke hospital, in the trauma part of it. the first part was kind of boring.
got lectured about driving impaired, head injuries, etc.
but then we got split into two groups, and we went through the critical care section. we saw a couple of people, but I tried to not look at them too much. then we went to this other part of the hosptial, and this lady talked to us. so sad.
last wednesday, she was in a car accident. she was driving home one night, with her husband in the passenger side, and there was this huge racoon on the road. it was apparently the biggest she's ever seen, and she couldn't go over it cause it was so big, and her car was so small. she would have lost control. she could go to the right of it cause there was a swamp on the side of the road. she decided to go to the left of it. there was an oncoming car, but she would have been past it in enough time. but, instead her tire got caught on the gravel and fish-tailed her car around and the oncoming car struck the passenger side.
the next thing she remebers is waking up and seeing her husband beside her saying that his legs were crushed or something. then the next thing was waking up in the hosptial, and she asked where her husband was. they said they would tell her after she takes her medicine, and she knew that he had died.
her daughter was in the room when she was telling us and she was like "I'm 29 and I dont have a dad anymore" and then the lady started saying how they had been married for 35 years...and almost started to cry...and then I started crying. and so did the other girls in the group. It was so sad. AND to make it even worse,
they have a son who 2 years ago got into a car accident and received serious brain ingury. He's getting married in two weeks, and his dad was supposed to be his best man. Pretty sad stuff.
and then there were these other guys. one of them was first in a motorcycle accident and hurt his leg, and then 7 years later went to go do a shallow dive...and smacked his head off the bottom..and now he's in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. The other guy went drinking and driving, and now he's in a wheelchair too.
then, there was this girl who walked in, and when she was 18, she was struck head on by a drunk driver. her thigh...well the bone was crushed into peices. the only thing that saved her was the air bag she said. I saw pictures of the car, and my gosh is she ever lucky. she did say though, that even after all that, she wouldnt go change what happened, because she didn't like who she was before it. because of it she became closer with her friends and family, and she has become stronger as a person.
It just really goes to show you how incredibly LUCKY we are, and how everything again, really does happen for a reason.
man. really eye-opening, thats for sure.
last modified May 5, 2006 at 20:09
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