A story I rarely tell.. I was talking to my girlfriend at the time on the telephone. My friend zips by on a mountain bike, attempts to brake, skids and loses control and ride over a twenty foot embankment. I immediately hang up the phone. I over over the edge, he's crumpled. I scramble down the cliffs edge to find him there motionless. We look at each other with the most sincere look. "I can't feel my legs" he says. My heart sinks, I feel lost and uncertain. Alone, away from any help I begin to yell, asking for anything, while attempting to remain strong, a futile effort. No one responds. "Help!" Nothing. He looks at me, and says, "I am never going to walk again." I deny what I know is true. "You will.." I reply half knowing that he is right. Tears begin to cloud my vision, a moment of chaos and also peace. I held my friends head and neck still until the helicopter arrives. I see him loaded onto the helicopter and a never see him again. He is on my mind often and I will always carry the pain of the experience with me. The last I heard is that he is walking again. Not sure.
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A story I rarely tell.. I was talking to my girlfriend at the time on the telephone. My friend zips by on a mountain bike, attempts to brake, skids and loses control and ride over a twenty foot embankment. I immediately hang up the phone. I over over the edge, he's crumpled. I scramble down the cliffs edge to find him there motionless. We look at each other with the most sincere look. "I can't feel my legs" he says. My heart sinks, I feel lost and uncertain. Alone, away from any help I begin to yell, asking for anything, while attempting to remain strong, a futile effort. No one responds. "Help!" Nothing. He looks at me, and says, "I am never going to walk again." I deny what I know is true. "You will.." I reply half knowing that he is right. Tears begin to cloud my vision, a moment of chaos and also peace. I held my friends head and neck still until the helicopter arrives. I see him loaded onto the helicopter and a never see him again. He is on my mind often and I will always carry the pain of the experience with me. The last I heard is that he is walking again. Not sure.
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