A 20-year-old was hit head-on by a drunk driver at 70 mph after giving a conference speech. The impact broke eleven bones, split his femur in two, and stopped his heart for six minutes. Doctors said he'd never walk again, but he survived.
So when I was 20 years old, I was driving home from giving a speech at a conference and hit head on by a drunk driver at 80 miles an hour. My car spun off. The drunk driver and the car behind me, not tailbone me. T boned me at 70 miles an hour and the left side of my body was just crushed. I broke 11 bones instantaneously. My femur broke in two pieces, my pelvis broke in three places, my arm broke in half, my elbow shattered, my eye socket shattered, and I was found dead at the scene. I was clinically dead for approximately six minutes. Airlifted to a hospital, they revived me on the helicopter, brought back to life, flatlined twice more while I was in a coma for six days and then came out of the coma, was told I would never walk again, and I had permanent brain damage. So that was my first bout with death, if you will.
