Four months ago, I was in a car accident on my way to work. The roads were extremely dangerous and while waiting at a light, I was hit from behind and twice on the side. Although I was quite distraught, I thought nothing of it and went to work. The next day, I was unable to walk and took a sick day thinking I could sleep it off. I went to work the following day and spent most of it sitting and trying to keep a smile on my face, only to be put on a leave of absence by my docto
r later that afternoon. From a rollercoaster ride of being told I had a compression fracture, finding out I had mild scoliosis, being told I have a pulled ligament in my shoulder, having constant back pain, having to rely on others to help me with the simplest of tasks and thinking that things just couldn’t get any worse, I am very proud to say that my road to recovery is almost complete.
After countless hours spent in physiotherapy, occupational therapy and doing at home exercises, I am finally starting to get my independence back. Tomorrow I will be going back to work and in a little under a month I will be performing onstage with my friends, two things that I thought would not be possible four months ago.
I cannot thank my friends and family enough for all that they have done for me over the past four months. Their words of encouragement, their help getting me to my doctor’s appointments, their pushing me in a wheelchair so I could enjoy a moment of doing something normal, and their patience were a huge help. It truly meant the world to me and made all the difference.
What this experience has taught me more than anything is that life is not always easy and that you may find yourself in what feels to be an impossible situation, but it’s not always how you handle it in that moment that matters but what you do with those experiences and knowledge afterwards.
Chelsea
