5. Seven days later, I went on a camping trip with my family. I was kicked by a horse and shattered my tibia.
6. I was five miles up a rocky trail, so I had to ride down on the back of an all terrain vehicle. In the ambulance on the way to the University Hospital in Kentucky (stick splint on my leg)
7. Dad holding my hand at the hospital Close-up of the stick splint
10. Surgeons inserted a rod and four screws into my right leg. They also found out that my swollen right wrist was full of badly pulled ligaments. I spent the rest of that summer with a cast on my arm sitting in a wheelchair.
11. My wrist swollen to almost the size of my knee
14. My high school sweetheart and I after my first miserable follow-up appointment
15. I was scared that nothing would ever be the same.
16. Despite my fears, I did make it through and I am more than able to walk now. Nothing is really the same as it was before, but I am more than okay with the changes.
17. ssd My leg, today. My scars are barely visible.
18. Life threw me down an entirely different path than I had planned. I have learned to adapt to the unexpected and I believe I am on the right path.
19. June 14th, 2007 Seven days after my high school graduation and the first link in an unending chain of events that would lend a hand in molding me into the adult I continue to become.
