Car Accident
Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2013 2:39 am
My Story happened apporx 9 yrs ago I just got out of the Marines I was home for about 6 months I started a new job everything was going wonderfull. One afternoon I was driving along and got hit head on by a impared driver. I remember the guy coming up to my trucking asking me if I was ok and asked if he could leave he just got out of day surgery and wasn't supposed to be driving well I know know why he shouldn't of been driving. I was in alot of pain and was transported to the local hospital. I laid on a back board for about 3hrs I had a Dr come over exam me sent me x rays and told me I prob retorn my ACL and my back was just a bad bruise I was in alot of pain and could barely move and asked what the test showed and I was told I need an MRI. After the Mri I had herniated L3-S1. I had wet myself while on the board and when asked about it I said sorry I didn't know I had to go and they said it was prob them meds. I was sent home and told to follow up with a Dr and was placed on crutches and a back brace. Having no insurance and only auto insurance was a pain to find a Dr the wetting continued it was slow at first couple daytime accident and couple wet beds my parents bought me pullups. I was like no way am I wearing those. Here I was a former US Marine and saw my self as a badass I didn't need diapers. Well long story short my wetting got so bad I end up having to use diapers I was diadnosised with a neruogenic bladder. I had my first back surgery then and a ACl surgery to correct not only the damage caused by the accident but it showed significant damage( apparently the knee sprain I had in the corps was really an mild acl tear) to my knee after all the years of abuse from surving my country. I was also told that I would have little to no control of my bladder ever again. I have since learned to cope with wearing diapers for the most part I still have days I get depressed but for the most part I am live my life and don't let it hold me back. I was also diagnosis with Addreanal Innsuficncy which my body doesn't produce enough corticoid steriods and I have to take meds for it. The bad part is a normal cold for some will land me in the hospital. I tried cathing but kept getting uti's which put me in the hospital so I stoped that and haven't had a uti since. While I was recooping from these injuries I thought what am I going to do with my life and I thought about the time I was hurt in the corps and what the corpsman and others did for me and also the Fire and EMS from the accident how they treated me. Before I got hurt I was work part time as a reserve police officer and Full time Executive Protection. I end up not going back to the police dept and became an EMT then a Paramedic and now I work as a Firefighter Paramedic or that was up till a year and a half ago I was lifting a 380lbs quad that fell out of his wheel chair and ended up herniating L3-L5 and retearing my acl for like the 4th time. I have had 2 back surgies and another Acl surgery and looking at another possible back surgery the MRI next will tell.
Sorry for the long post but that is my story and there is many other stuff in the middle but there wasn't enough space and I would prob bore you even more. Thank you for letting me join this site and hope to either help or get help from others.
03Jarhead
Sorry for the long post but that is my story and there is many other stuff in the middle but there wasn't enough space and I would prob bore you even more. Thank you for letting me join this site and hope to either help or get help from others.
03Jarhead