Help Leslie Get Back To Living Life

On March 29th, I was left paralyzed from the diaphragm down.

I was with my significant other for the first spring ride on our dirt bikes. Loved ones and food were waiting for us for a birthday celebration. Unfortunately we never made it. On our way back home a car cut me off. It came in between us and I tried to evade it but I launched into the ditch where I hit a concrete culvert.

I hit head first and my legs came over. I tumbled a few times before stopping a few feet away from my bike. I tried to climb out and realized I couldn’t feel my legs. It took a while for my significant other to find me as I was deep in the ditch. 911 was called and I was flown to the closest hospital where I spent days in the ICU. After my surgery, I learned that I broke the base of my skull, my right shoulder blade, right ribs and my 8th vertebrae. This left me with the inability to walk, much less go home and get back to my normal life.

It didn’t click in my head that things would not be the same any time soon. The first question I asked my surgeon was, “When will I go back to work?” I was given the news that there was a high likelihood that my life would not go back to how it used to be. I am now learning life in a completely new way, from using the restroom differently to dressing myself in a new way. Daily activities take so much more time now.

With the loss of my ability to return to my career as a certified surgical technologist, my future is uncertain. Hope is the last thing that dies and we hold on to any possibility that things will turn for the better.

I’d love some help through this journey that changed my life.

Thank you all ❤️