A guy that I occasionally work with broke his neck and was paralyzed from the neck down. He was horsing around wrestling around a swimming pool and ended up taking a dive into a shallow area. He wasn’t planning on diving in, it was more the result of tom-foolery and losing his balance and the next thing you know he had a couple of vertebrae fractured.

This is a ‘kid’ in his early twenties, whose life was permanently changed. He went into surgery and they took a chunk out of his hip bone and were able to fix the damage, and luckily the spinal cord wasn’t severed or whatever and he is now able to walk again and has regained full use of all limbs. He said the most painful part on his body now is the hip that the bone came out of.

He’s out of work for six weeks at least and is wearing a collar, and has to give everything time to heal. Medical science is amazing.

How many of us haven’t had those sort of situations? Probably not to that extreme, but still. Have you been goofing around and had a narrow escape? Or just been in an accident that could have been much worse? How does all that impact your psyche? In his case, does he live the rest of his life thinking what if? Does he (or me or you) start to live differently?

I just read a quote “How you spend your days is how you spend your life.” Does having a life threatening incident make people re-assess their lives? I think for some, it does. Other people just wipe their brow, “Whew” and continue with little or no change.

I am at a point where I am concerned about my days becoming my life. But unless I change, my life and my days won’t.

Rob Britt

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