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A journey of resilience, transformation, and finding strength in the face of unimaginable adversity.
Don’t Die Before Your Death
Finding Light in Darkness: My Path to Healing and Happiness
I was 18 years old when I got married. I belonged to a very conservative family, a Belauche family, where good daughters never say no to their parents. My father wanted me to get married, and all I said was, if that makes you happy, I’ll say yes.
Of course, it was never a happy marriage. Just about two years after getting married, about nine years ago, I met a car accident. Somehow, my husband fell asleep and the car fell into a ditch. He managed to jump out, saving himself. I’m happy for him, but I stayed inside the car and sustained a lot of injuries. The list is a bit long:
- The radius of my right arm was fractured.
- The wrist was fractured.
- The shoulder bone and collar bone were fractured.
- My whole rib cage got fractured.
But the injury that changed me and my life completely was the spine injury. Many people came to rescue; they gave me CBR and dragged me out of the car. While they were dragging me out, I got the complete transaction of my spinal cord.