A year ago today, I almost died. Now, I know that sounds dramatic, but if my neighbors had not heard me crying for help after my car slipped off its jack and landed on top of me, I would have been dead within a minute, EMTs told me as they loaded me into the back of an ambulance.
Sidebar: My health-insurance company and car-insurance company butted heads when determining which of them was supposed to cover the cost of the ambulance! Yes, I got injured because of a car, but it was not an automobile accident. The car was not even running! I may as well had been crushed by a vending machine. Sigh. OK, sidebar over.
Anywho, I have never been so close to leaving this world, and I’m sure many Mississippians have had scary moments like that—moments that make your blood cold and your eyes unfocus if you let yourself return to that headspace again for too long. As tough as we like to consider ourselves at times, we are all mortal. I wish I could have gone a few more years before facing that reality so directly head-on, but I’m choosing to count my blessings that I am able to wish anything at all right now.
Sure, I have a “bum shoulder” at 28 years old (there go my chances at being a professional dodgeball player), but I’m still breathing. Granted, my partner has forbidden me from working underneath a car ever again, but I never really loved doing that sort of thing anyway. Yes, my maternal grandfather has run his own auto repair business for decades and is even a part-time professor at a trade school in Indiana, but this indoor kid prefers not having grease on his hands. So, hey, I have an excuse now!
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Humor aside, my accident left me grateful for the opportunity to savor life. Is it cliché to say, “Life is a gift”? Perhaps some may think so. But the time I spent falling
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