Can you Imagine
Can you imagine going to sleep and waking up in the morning and falling asleep while driving?
Can you imagine being on life support?
Can you imagine waking up in the hospital and wondering what's going on?
Can you imagine speaking out, then screaming and not hearing one little sound?
Can you imagine smacking your teeth for a month to get someone's attention?
Can you imagine, sounding out words for a month to try to communicate with friends and family?
Can you imagine being told by a nurse that you must have this tube down your nose or your life will be very complicated?
Can you imagine crying as he is telling you what to do while putting the tube down your nose?
can you imagine all of the medicine you take going through that tube in your nose because you can't take it by mouth?
Can you imagine being on a ventilator, having a machine breathe for you even though you told the nurse it's harder to breathe with that on ?
Can you imagine learning how to swallow again by taking sips of water and grape juice?
Can you imagine being able to only eat puréed food so it wouldn't go down the wrong pipe?
Can you imagine nurse is putting a catheter down your trachea to bring up thick yellow and orange flem you weren't able to cough up?
Can you imagine having 104.0 temperature and doctors not knowing why?
Can you imagine, not understanding anything about your accident and thinking you will be out of the hospital in a week and back with the basketball team working out and playing ball again?
Can you imagine, finally breaking down and crying profusely after three weeks in the hospital because you saw someone with the saddest face out of everybody who came to see you and you just knew what he was thinking?
Can you imagine nurse's performing treatments and doing it all wrong and almost causing my death (twice)?.
Can you imagine a nurse telling you that you will have a trach forever?
Can you imagine urinating at one point pure blood?
Can you imagine having a dream for a month straight that you are walking and doing everything that you were before you got hurt and then waking up and just wondering "Man "?
Can you imagine getting a standing ovation at some of the basketball games and trying to hold back tears because seeing all of those people clapping for you (Even though you didn't deserve it)touches a place in your heart that can't be felt anywhere else?
Can you imagine getting so dizzy that your vision goes completely black, and the pain is so bad that you can't lift a muscle?
Can you imagine not being able to hug your family and friends?
Can you imagine not being able to go out to certain places with your friends because of your disability?
And can you imagine not being able to play your favorite sport and every time you go to or see a game you just reminisce when you were playing and again, you just tilt back and say "Man "?
Well, there is so much more I can write but, I went through everything that is written above and just wanted to let everyone know you can do anything you set your mind to and don't let no one tell you different...
P.S.... it's a new year, New Year = New Movement
"MFP" Young E
