PETE

“My life was taken from me, then given back to be reconfigured. Thirty nine years ago, when I was 19 years old, I suffered a traumatic brain injury in a car accident. I was propelled from the car traveling at a high rate of speed after we hit the base of a bridge going over the interstate we were driving on. My body was found 150 feet from the car and the emergency crew pronounced me dead at the scene. Apparently, God had a different path for me. A friend of my family (a rescue team member) happened to be driving by and decided to try again to find some life in me. They found a heartbeat and got me to the local hospital, where after no success, they immediately sent me to the nearest medical center with brain injury experience. This was risky since there was very little chance of me even surviving the ride. However, I did arrive, but in very serious condition and deeply comatose. They had to drill my skull to relieve the pressure, I underwent five hours of brain surgery, plus had a punctured lung, bruised kidney and fractured skull. After surgery, when most of my frontal Love was removed, the temporal lobe was stitched up, the lung and kidney patched up and I was connected to multiple machines to keep me alive I was moved to super intensive care. It’s said that I was the first one to come out of that place alive.”