Personal Narrative: Football In My Life

In high school I was a 4-year letterman in football and track. A 3-year letterman in basketball and tennis. Football meant every in my life so much that I had immersed myself in the sport, and was dedicated to it and nothing else mattered. I had even had committed to coming to the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor to play football. However, on March 31, 2013 I was driving home from work, when one of the biggest moments in my life happened. While I was driving my car began to shake and I ended up losing my front driver side wheel and my back passenger side wheel. As these came off my car I went into a tailspin. I hit an embankment and flipped the car 4 times. I would try to get out and when I put my right foot down I instantly collapsed and it
I cannot remember what she said but as she began to speak the words brought life back into my body. When the ambulance finally arrived I would care-flighted to Tyler, Texas, and would learn the horrible news that the doctors said I would never walk again. I cried for a minute and composed myself and told those doctors that they were wrong and that one day I would run again. The damage was so severe that I later got a statement from the hospital stating that they had intended to amputate my legs. On that day my legs were taken away from me and part of my identity was taken away. The accident gave me huge scars on my legs and some on my hand, and a limp. I would go to have 3 surgeries, spend 24 total hours being operated on, spend a week in a hospital bed not being able to move, I would have 70 staples taken out my body and take at least 2 weeks to recover from each surgery, and have to learn how to walk 3 different ways, and be stuck with the huge emotional and physical scars and the struggle of finding who I was as a person. I then went on a journey to see who I was without football. I prayed every day, spoke with one of the counselors on campus, and started living life to the