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Heber13 wrote:

What an interesting and emotional story. Thanks for sharing. I am eager to learn from your perspectives and your experiences. Especially how you can keep such faith in God throughout it all. What has been the biggest thing helping you feel like God is still watching over you, despite others’ failures?

Heber,

I have been told by many people, even my doctors, that I should not be here after the accident that I was in. If you think of a car windshield shattered by a rock, that is the condition that my skull was in. The only thing not broken in my head was my nose. Even the doctors were betting for the first 2 weeks that I was in the hospital were betting that I would not make it through the night. My accident happened on 28 June, 2005. My family was told that, if, I ever came out of the coma that I was in, I would be in a wheel chair for the rest of my life. I have had to relearn how to do many things, but I know that I was not suppose to give up. A week after I got out of the hospital, I have been walking ever since. I have learned not to take anything for granted. I had just gone over working 11 years at the post office in Provo, Utah. I had 9 years that I was in the US Army. I retired at 46 with 20 years of federal service and it took another year to get full disability. My wife was a stay at home mom. But she went to school and graduated with honors. And now has a great job working at the Roosevelt hospital. Our lives have gotten better. We got ouor house paid off and we are working on getting our kids graduated from school. My main doctor has told me that when he has a bad day, he thinks of my situation and his is not so bad. He has also told me that he has people that are still in wheel chairs and my injuries are 10 times worse. I cannot give up with all of the help that God has given to me.

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