I was helping a friend move into his apartment. We were taking a breather so I sat down on a window ledge. The landlord had closed the window but not shut it. I leaned back on it and fell out three stories, broke 2 bones in my left wrist, breaking a vertebra, incurring some nerve damage, and became partially paralyzed for a few weeks. This was 2 years ago, right at the beginning of my 2nd semester junior year. I missed 3 weeks of college then had to decide whether id skip the semester or take 18 credits and some of the hardest classes of my life while I was in a back brace and couldn't even walk more than a fifty yards without having to stop and rest. I did it anyway. it was hard. I was alone except for my two best friends and in a brace for 4 months. I couldnt control my bladder or bowels well either, and so I lived in fear of not being able to make it to a toilet. I was terrified of showers. I had to take off the brace to do it and if I fukked up and slipped, I would refracture my back and need aurgery.. I was in constant nerve pain, like hot needles dipped in fire stabbing your legs all day in night and nothing can stop it or blunt it except for a single medication. That time of my life showed me what I was really made of as a person. and who my real friends were. my buddy used to carry my laundry for me up and down the stairs.others came to visit me in my room. I couldn't really go out and socialize.
definitely a life changing experience.
