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I've been gone for a long time, here's why...
13 years ago
“I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.” -Nikos Kazantzakis
Where to begin...
On June 11th of this year, I was involved in a rather serious car accident while driving home from Long Island. I was t-boned by a 2012 Audi A7. The other car made a direct hit to the front driver's side door on my 1999 Volvo V70 wagon (which I am glad I was driving. I would have been toast in any other car...). I won't go into the details (it still gives me chills to think about it) but after the car had come to a stop, I found that my leg had been pinned under the dashboard, which had been crushed in and down by the impact. I called out for help, and eventually, a good Samaritan came over to the wreck and asked me if I was ok. I asked to borrow his cell phone and called my parents. I don't know who, but someone eventually called 911 and the ambulances and fire trucks arrived on the scene. The fire department had to use the jaws of life to extricate me from the wreck. Once the dashboard had been pried apart, the worst of the pain kicked in. I was rushed to the nearest hospital where I underwent surgery for my broken left femur and lacerated spleen. I was conscious through the entire incident, all the way up until they anesthetized me for the surgery. I woke up in the hospital bed many hours later feeling like shit. The doctors had inserted a titanium rod and two pins into my femur and had removed my spleen to stop the internal bleeding. However, there was nothing they could do for the many broken ribs... (those were the worst!). After nine days in the hospital, I was released, having lost 20 lbs during my stay. (I won't go into the details of the hospital stay, but I will say that morphine makes me feel like i'm underwater, in a bad way...).
After several months of recovery and physical therapy, I am up and walking again. Unfortunately, I ended up missing my High School Graduation ceremony (and most of the summer as well). Now, I am at College and adjusting well. On a brighter note, I've already made a bunch of new friends (some of which I suspect are fellow furs ^^). Regardless, between the accident and the transition to college, I have had very little time to be a part of the FA community. However, I am officially back, and I plan on uploading some new songs that I've been working on very soon! I also plan on posting journals much more frequently from now on.
I'm sorry if this is news to any of you; I tried my best to let everyone I could know about the crash once I was well enough to get on a computer again. Please don't worry too much! I'm alive and well.
TL;DR: I haven't been on FA for so long because I was in a serious car accident and then started college, however, I'm ok now and ready to participate in the FA community again.
On June 11th of this year, I was involved in a rather serious car accident while driving home from Long Island. I was t-boned by a 2012 Audi A7. The other car made a direct hit to the front driver's side door on my 1999 Volvo V70 wagon (which I am glad I was driving. I would have been toast in any other car...). I won't go into the details (it still gives me chills to think about it) but after the car had come to a stop, I found that my leg had been pinned under the dashboard, which had been crushed in and down by the impact. I called out for help, and eventually, a good Samaritan came over to the wreck and asked me if I was ok. I asked to borrow his cell phone and called my parents. I don't know who, but someone eventually called 911 and the ambulances and fire trucks arrived on the scene. The fire department had to use the jaws of life to extricate me from the wreck. Once the dashboard had been pried apart, the worst of the pain kicked in. I was rushed to the nearest hospital where I underwent surgery for my broken left femur and lacerated spleen. I was conscious through the entire incident, all the way up until they anesthetized me for the surgery. I woke up in the hospital bed many hours later feeling like shit. The doctors had inserted a titanium rod and two pins into my femur and had removed my spleen to stop the internal bleeding. However, there was nothing they could do for the many broken ribs... (those were the worst!). After nine days in the hospital, I was released, having lost 20 lbs during my stay. (I won't go into the details of the hospital stay, but I will say that morphine makes me feel like i'm underwater, in a bad way...).
After several months of recovery and physical therapy, I am up and walking again. Unfortunately, I ended up missing my High School Graduation ceremony (and most of the summer as well). Now, I am at College and adjusting well. On a brighter note, I've already made a bunch of new friends (some of which I suspect are fellow furs ^^). Regardless, between the accident and the transition to college, I have had very little time to be a part of the FA community. However, I am officially back, and I plan on uploading some new songs that I've been working on very soon! I also plan on posting journals much more frequently from now on.
I'm sorry if this is news to any of you; I tried my best to let everyone I could know about the crash once I was well enough to get on a computer again. Please don't worry too much! I'm alive and well.
TL;DR: I haven't been on FA for so long because I was in a serious car accident and then started college, however, I'm ok now and ready to participate in the FA community again.
