On November 29th, 2021 - I was run over by a truck pulling a commercial trailer while riding my bike in a bike lane. It was a hit and run. I was permanently disabled that day and now live handicapped with titanium rods in the bone marrow of my left leg and hip. I'm blessed they miraculously caught the driver.
I woke up in the hospital after 4 days and some surgery, and already I was seeing the world differently. With no feeling from the waist down, I feared the worst and thought I'd be paralyzed for life. Turns out it was the epidural and pain blockers.
Thank God I survived that day and am able to tell the story today.
Here's why I titled this "Seeing the world differently" because it has multiple meanings and application. I saw the world so differently laying in the street in pain and helpless. Just lucky to be alive according to eye witnesses.
Then I saw it soo differently from that hospital bed and wheelchair. The fear of an unknown future really started to settle in and I felt completely helpless and totally hopeless. I saw the world so differently, in a way I wish I never had.
My new set of tools for some time to come...
Then they sent me home and for almost three years now I've had to think about, live through, and continue living through the mental and physical pains but also the legal and courts systems. I'm the victim, and now the plaintiff. Geez whiz.
Here's why seeing the world differently has helped me survive, cope, and even overcome this incident and all that it has consumed from me.
- I had vowed to never ride a bicycle again after the accident. I have since gotten back on the horse and started riding again. I no longer feel robbed of the joy! Now I go out and pedal my way through life's up's and down's.
- Since it was my bike that almost put me into a wheelchair, I now use that very bike as my wheels-chair and it takes me where I could have and never would have walked before. What a concept?!? I need a mini handicapped-plate?!
(Who says you can't have wheels in front and back instead of on the sides)
- I've always been afraid of heights so now I ride my bike to locations I'd never go and I fly my camera in the sky using a drone and I get to SEE THE WORLD DIFFERENTLY even though I've been to many of these locations hundreds and thousands of time.
This is a sample of some of my self inflicted therapeutic recovery and the results that come from it. Seeing the world differently from the sky is showing me how much I miss below and how much there truly is to see and learn in the world!!
I am an amateur and only do this for fun and recreationally. If you're interested in seeing more, you're welcome to see some other areas where "iDrone The World" as I see the world differently. I am blessed and grateful to witness every miracle!
PS. Before this accident and the opportunity to "see the world differently", I was a caretaker for Maya Mae. How ironic and blessed to have her swap roles with me and be my caretaker from that day forward. <3
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