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In a Split Second: From Tragedy to Triumph with Jesus Christ

Introduction

My day started out like every other ordinary day by waking up, taking a shower, getting

dressed, having breakfast then heading off to work. The day was going like any other day at

work helping people by getting them the auto parts they needed, checking in the stock that

arrived that day, then restocking the store with things such as oil, oil filters, air filters, different

types of additives to help your vehicle improve its performance and sharing an occasional laugh

with a coworker. I got off early that day, so I could go home to get a shower, get dressed and

then go to pick up my friend Barry due to the fact that we were going to a concert that night.

We arrived before the concert started, so we hung out in the parking lot and talked with other

people who had arrived early for the concert also. Somehow, between the time when we

entered the concert venue and when the concert started my friend Barry and I got separated

from each other. We each had a hold of our own tickets, so I decided that I would go down to

the front of the venue where our seats were located. The first band onstage, Biohazard had

begun playing, but there was still no sign of my friend Barry. I noticed that there was an area

where there was a group of people slam dancing, so I decided to go down front and have some

fun while also getting closer to the band with hopes of catching either a guitar pick or possibly

one of the drummer’sdrumsticks.

I remember Biohazard finishing playing and then the next thing I remembered I was on top of

the crowd that pushed me forward towards the stage. The next thing that I remember was

that I was pulled off the crowd, then led by a group of guys, which due to legal agreements I

am unable to reveal the names of them or the people who pulled me off the crowd while

allowing me to land on the ground with all my weight. The next thing I knew I was led up a

few steps then pushed through a set of double doors to the outside and then was thrown down

on the ground. I stood up on my own then the three guys said to me, “Do you have a

problem?” I replied, “No, I don’t have a problem,” and the next thing they said to me was,

“Well you do now!”Then the next thing I knew the group of guys put my arms behind my back,

picked me up in the air, slammed me on the ground head first breaking my neck and then

continued to rough me up. Then they picked me up by my arms and legs, then I felt my right

foot hit the ground and then the next thing I knew was that my head dropped downward

causing two vertebraein my neck to slide over top of each other causing my spinal cord to be

cut which caused my body to lose all feeling from my chest down. They proceeded to carry me

what had felt like the length of a football field, dropping me face down in a mud puddle outside

of the gates. Fortunately, I was able to turn my head to the left one more time out of the mud

puddle so that I could breathe without drowning in the mud puddle. As they were walking back

into the concert venue I heard one of them yell out to me, “Now try to get up and walk!” The

next thing I remembered was seeing my friend Anthony kneeling down what looked like to me

at the time that he was a mile away from me, and he asked me,” Are you ok?”, and I replied to

him ,”No, they broke my neck”.

I also remember the paramedics surrounding me while asking me, “What’s

wrong?” I replied, “They broke my neck.” Then one of the paramedics asked me,

“How do you know your neck is broken?” since I was in respiratory arrest as loud

as I could I yelled to them, “They broke my neck, I heard it snap!” They then

turned me onto my side while putting a board behind my back, then stabilizing

my neck by putting a neck brace while also placing two blocks or either side of

my head and then strapping them down to prevent any further damage to my

spinal cord. While the paramedics were putting me into the ambulance I kept

repeating to them, “Please call my mother at [410]686-0384!” The next thing I

remember was waking up in Shock Trauma with a tubegoing down my throat, a

tube going up my nose, IV’s in both arms while the doctors were screwing

screws into both sides of my head so that they could stabilize my neck by putting

it into traction to align all of the vertebrae in my neck. At that moment I didn’t

realize that after all the bad things I had done in my life until that moment, Jesus

Christ was giving me a Second Chance at life. For

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