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KarenSoCal

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The accident was Nov 2015. The left rear axle shaft broke on my F150 truck and we rolled over 5 or 6 times. We were on the freeway doing 70 mph. I was helicoptered out and in a coma for 3 months.
What an unimaginable experience! Did you have a passenger with you?

A true nightmare...but I'm so glad we have you with us now. And so is Opo!
 

Cathie G

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Well with a older truck and no other trucks having that problem. There was never a recall. I guess when the lawyer checked into. He didn't think there was a case. After I recovered to where I could think straight I didn't really have the drive in me to pursue it. I still had to learn how to speak and then to walk.
Phantom pain is such a deep subject. I have a paraplegic friend and I know he goes through a type of it. I know my brother does too. Too bad all those researchers don't realize they haven't seen every THING.
 

Cathie G

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Do you have the app on your phone? I think it’s easier to post photos from the app than from the website.
I have a shortcut on my phone to the CDR. I don't know if that's an ap. I was hoping I could post easier from my laptop. I do prefer android which is what my phone is.
 

Cathie G

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We are buying our dream farm soon. I’m getting hubby to put me up a clothes line.
If he hasn't put it up yet check out the Canadian clothesline with pulleys. They work. You stand in one place and move the clothes line to you. You don't have to keep moving the basket of clothes you move the clothesline.
 

EllieMay

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A year ago I suddenly started fainting. I went down 4 times in a week.

The first time I was in the shower. When I fell I hit the little bypass thingy that you pull up to make the water go up to the shower head.

After laying there a minute or two, I realized I hadn't rinsed my hair. The bright thing to do was stay down and just put my head under the faucet. At that moment, I was not bright. I stood up, rinsed my hair, and promptly passed out again, hitting the same pullup thing at the same spot on my arm.

A week later I went down and crunched my head on the floor tile and sprained my ankle.

Spent 2 days in the hospital. The reason was that unexplicably my blood pressure was suddenly MUCH lower than ever before. Went from 40 mg daily to 5 mg of my BP med. Been fine since.

Well that’s scary!! I hope your monitoring your BP daily now!
 

Cathie G

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The accident happened in Georgia. So I was in Georgia for about 2 months. While there they notified my son's in Michigan to get down there. They said I wouldn't last 24hrs. But I guess God had different plans
Then when I was critical but stable. Still in a coma they medical air flighted me to a hospital near my home in Florida.
I'm praying for you too. He does have plans for you and wifey...and opo...
 

Ray--Opo

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What an unimaginable experience! Did you have a passenger with you?

A true nightmare...but I'm so glad we have you with us now. And so is Opo!
Thank you! My wife was driving. She ended up with 3 fractured vertebrae in her neck, fractured scapula, slight head injury and a cut on her arm.
The worst thing for her is she remembers every part of the accident.
I remember nothing so sometimes I think she got the worst end of the deal.
 

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