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not feel the lower half of my body. I felt paralyzed. Still
struggling to move, I felt arms glide around my shoulders and
under my armpits. They drug me out of the crushed car. I
dreamily looked around and saw my sister as they started to
cover her body with a large white sheet. She looked like an
angel, so still. I sat and stared and her lifeless body in shock.
Was this real? Everything happened so fast, but like it was in
slow motion. Every minute lying pinned against the ground,
felt like a life time. Strangers came at me, poking every part of
my body and probing me with questions that I didn’t have
answers to. They finally strapped me to a bright orange board
and pushed me into an ambulance. Each and every movement
felt like knives piercing my lower body. We finally made it to
Yorba Linda Hospital.
I was pretty banged up, but my sister wasn’t alright. I had
several broken bones, and stitches in my forehead. That
evening I underwent surgery to put two sets of pins in where
my femur meets my hip to help me try and walk again. I was
in the hospital for six days, and in physical therapy to regain
my legs another six months.
I have now realized how precious life really is and that it
can be taken away in a single moment. This was even harder