There is blood on the ground. Blood on me. Blood on wall. One obstacle I have overcome in my life was when I ran through a window. Trust me it is worse than it sounds. My story starts at Mt. Gilead Church.
The parents were having a meeting, so they sent us kids to go and play kickball outside. After a few innings of strenuous kick balling, we took a break to eat dinner in the piano room by the kitchen. We continued playing at the last inning. I was up, we were down, and I had some big plans.
I was making my way to first base, and I took a long stride, and dove. This may sound normal, but the base was an old stain glass window. That is when we realized it was not going to be good. I went straight through the window arms first, and into the collapsing piano. I did not even realize what had happened until I started pulling out the glass and saw my bone… shattered. There was glass in my neck, arms, and chest. The ambulance was there in a flash. I was stabilized, and air-evaced to another hospital. I lost a lot of blood. I had many surgeries on my arm to try and reconstruct my arm. I got over 1,000 stitches, a metal bone, plates, screws, blood transplant, and rehabilitation. My nurse told me I was lucky to be alive, because there was glass near my artery in my neck. She called it a Near Death Experience (N.D.E.).
I knew I wanted to kick it into overdrive on the road to recovery. The doctors told me to focus on rehab, so I had to leave school for the rest of the year. They had to teach me at the hospital. Friends and family were dropping by the hospital all the time to visit me. When I finally got back to school the next year, the school threw me a party. They gave me a gifts and support, but they will never know how much it meant to me.
Now you know why overcoming my injuries from the window was difficult. I also love the fact that my arm does not get talked about much. I have learned to put up with the pain spurts that I get. Also, I have medication to control those spurts and to dull the pain. As Helen Keller said, “Your success and happiness lie within you”.  My arm does not really affect me anymore. This is how I overcame my “accident”.