MIKEHONCHO
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Hi my name is Jason and I thought maybe my story would maybe help someone who is feeling low and needs a story of somebody who was defeated but came back.
My story is this, in 2006 I had my trip to europe planned and tickets payed for and it was my birthday and only 3 weeks until my trip. Well my friends and I went to bar in downtown Vancouver to celebrate my birthday.. Now I just bought my first beer and my friends were hitting this punching bag in the bar that tells you how hard your punch is, well I half assed punched it and everybody laughed as I am a big guy and everybody expected me to kill it. So I put my beer down and reach back to throw a haymaker and just as I put all of my weight forward I hear a pop and feel a snap and fall to the ground on my face. It turns out I dislocated my knee cap and ruturing my ACL and PCL and tearing my LCL and my meniscus as well as the worst injury I some how mangled my paranerial nerve that goes from thigh to toes. Now have just felt like I broke my leg in 3 places and my foot is pointing out and while my knee capp is pointing in. Anyways I get to the hospital and my paretsmeet me there and the doctor pops my knee back into place. The nurses take me upstairs to hospital room. The next morning the orthopedic surgeon comes in and tells me what I have done and I ask am I going to be able to go on my trip to Europe and looks at me and saysthis is a serious injury with the nerve and it might take you 2 or 3 years before you can walk again withouta cain, never mind the ligament and cartlidge damage. BasicallyI needed 26 inches of nerve to regrow in my knee in order to be able to walk close to what I did before the accident. I told myself after he left I don't care how long it takes or how much physiotheray I have to take but I will be going to Europe soon.
After 6 months of hard workin the swimming pool, at the physiotherapists office and putting up with the worst pain I had ever felt, I was out of the wheel chairand walking with a walker. Another 3 months later I was able to feel my toes and move them and walk with a cain with out a problem. The three doctors I had seen had never seen somebody with an injury of this magnitude being able to walk after a short time. When I told my docotrs about my plan to backpack throught europe, they told me not to and it was not a good idea. But I had made myself a promise to no matter what to acheive my dream of backpacking through europe on my own. Now one year and two months to the day my plane touched down in Frankfurt and the first thing I said was I did it and backpacked by myself across 8 countries with my cain in hand and walking up all 1200 steps of the monument of 1812 in Leipzig, Germany or walking up the steep hill to get to King Ludwig's castle in Bavaria. This is my single biggest acomplishment of my life to show all the doctors that no matter what they told me they weren't going to kill my dream and the only person that could was myself and I was not going to let that happen.
I hope this could help somebody who has had something similar and is thinking of giving up or thinking something is impossible.
My story is this, in 2006 I had my trip to europe planned and tickets payed for and it was my birthday and only 3 weeks until my trip. Well my friends and I went to bar in downtown Vancouver to celebrate my birthday.. Now I just bought my first beer and my friends were hitting this punching bag in the bar that tells you how hard your punch is, well I half assed punched it and everybody laughed as I am a big guy and everybody expected me to kill it. So I put my beer down and reach back to throw a haymaker and just as I put all of my weight forward I hear a pop and feel a snap and fall to the ground on my face. It turns out I dislocated my knee cap and ruturing my ACL and PCL and tearing my LCL and my meniscus as well as the worst injury I some how mangled my paranerial nerve that goes from thigh to toes. Now have just felt like I broke my leg in 3 places and my foot is pointing out and while my knee capp is pointing in. Anyways I get to the hospital and my paretsmeet me there and the doctor pops my knee back into place. The nurses take me upstairs to hospital room. The next morning the orthopedic surgeon comes in and tells me what I have done and I ask am I going to be able to go on my trip to Europe and looks at me and saysthis is a serious injury with the nerve and it might take you 2 or 3 years before you can walk again withouta cain, never mind the ligament and cartlidge damage. BasicallyI needed 26 inches of nerve to regrow in my knee in order to be able to walk close to what I did before the accident. I told myself after he left I don't care how long it takes or how much physiotheray I have to take but I will be going to Europe soon.
After 6 months of hard workin the swimming pool, at the physiotherapists office and putting up with the worst pain I had ever felt, I was out of the wheel chairand walking with a walker. Another 3 months later I was able to feel my toes and move them and walk with a cain with out a problem. The three doctors I had seen had never seen somebody with an injury of this magnitude being able to walk after a short time. When I told my docotrs about my plan to backpack throught europe, they told me not to and it was not a good idea. But I had made myself a promise to no matter what to acheive my dream of backpacking through europe on my own. Now one year and two months to the day my plane touched down in Frankfurt and the first thing I said was I did it and backpacked by myself across 8 countries with my cain in hand and walking up all 1200 steps of the monument of 1812 in Leipzig, Germany or walking up the steep hill to get to King Ludwig's castle in Bavaria. This is my single biggest acomplishment of my life to show all the doctors that no matter what they told me they weren't going to kill my dream and the only person that could was myself and I was not going to let that happen.
I hope this could help somebody who has had something similar and is thinking of giving up or thinking something is impossible.
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