Jordans road to recovery

I’m Jordan Barnett, and I’m a 24-year-old resident of Cedar Park, Texas. I recently suffered a severe skateboarding accident that landed me in the ICU, where I was put on life support for just under a week. I’ve skated injury-free since I was 10, and have done so regularly at Brushy Creek Skate Park since it opened in 2010. I’ve always made a point to be especially aware of my surroundings at the skate park as things can get hectic fast, but unfortunately that wasn’t enough this time.I was there with my buddy Alan on Thursday, June 2nd, around 2 pm. There were probably 4 skateboarders in the entire 15,000 square-foot park, including myself and Alan, and maybe over 10 kids on scooters. My only memory from that day is that I was skating the ramp I usually skated right before I got completely blindsided by a kid on a scooter. Everything went black.The collision caused me to fall and slam my head against the concrete, triggering multiple skull fractures and internal bleeding from my brain. The kid was unscathed, or at least not hurt badly enough to keep him from hopping up immediately. Sprawled on the ground, I began to convulse. The kid’s dad happened to be at the park as well. He walked up to check on his son, saw me in a pool of my own blood, and fled the park with his son without even calling 9-1-1 or offering any help. Had I not been lucky enough to have Alan there with me, I would’ve been left for dead. I woke up 5 days later in the hospital with little memory of the accident whatsoever. I’ve slowly pieced it together as best as I can, but my memory has yet to fully return. Days after my return home, I was billed over $600,000 in medical expenses. Unfortunately, I had no health insurance at the time of the accident, as I had just quit my job 2-3 weeks prior. I can’t begin to express how eternally grateful I would be for ANY help at all. This will obviously be used for medical bills first and foremost, along with therapy, housing, and living expenses to help me get back on my feet. As I am in the process of recovering from serious head trauma, it is likely going to be months and months before I can work again. I hate feeling like I’m selling my story for your sympathy, but what should’ve been just another day at the skate park turned out to be the day my life was literally derailed out of nowhere. Please just understand that I wouldn’t be reaching out if I wasn’t truly in dire need. The odds weren’t in my favor to even make it out of this alive, but I believe wholeheartedly that God gave me a second chance for a reason. I hope to return to work as soon as possible and pick back up on my passion for photography, fashion, and maybe even skating, but for now I’m just focused on regaining a piece of myself that was lost. Just know that no matter how small you give, anything would mean everything.Thank you to everyone,Jordan BarnettP.S. If nothing else, please help spread the word!