[Priscilla]

My story, copied from my blog

So…Many of you don’t know my
entire story. I was paralyzed in a car
wreck in 1999. I was 18 and just started college. The person driving was sober but my ex-sister-in-law was drunk and grabbed the wheel. We were going around a curve and another car was coming. I was thrown out. Nope. No seatbelt. I was in the backseat. Not many adults wear one in the backseat, do they?! I never lost conscienceness and spent about 5 weeks in the hospital. That included a really long (12-15 hour) surgery to stabalize my spine. As soon as they let me, I was ready to get into therapy and learn what I had to so I could get on with my life. One thing I’ve said since the begining is I am “changed but still the same”. To this day my attitude is positive and I don’t let the injury or the scars get me down. I still do EVERYTHING I want to do…just sitting down. I have a great life and couldn’t imagine being any happier. People are always asking me how I can be so positive and I tell them it’s because I want to. I don’t get feeling sorry for myslef. What good does that do me? No, thank you. I want to live my life and enjoy it and no one is going to keep me from doing that, most of all myself. So now you know. I have all kinds of scars on my body as a constant reminder of 9-12-99, but sometimes I still “forget”. I’ll be going about my business and forget I am actually sitting until I try to reach something high up or far away. It’s quite funny, really. Flame me if you want but the Parking really Rocks, …when I can find it.-lol

Now all my dreams have come. Despite paralysis, I am a mommy!!!