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The First LinkBy: Kristen Sell
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June 7th, 2007
I graduated from high school with a great plan for
my future.
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Mom, Dad, & Me
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My siblings and me
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Seven days later, I went on a camping trip
with my family. I was kicked by a horse and
shattered my tibia.
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I was five miles up a rocky trail, so I
had to ride down on the back of an all
terrain vehicle.
In the ambulance on the way to the
University Hospital in Kentucky (stick
splint on my leg)
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Dad holding my hand at the
hospital
Close-up of the stick splint
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The nurses removing the splint after a long
first day in the hospital
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I was scared I wouldn’t make it.
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Surgeons inserted a rod and four screws into my right leg. They also
found out that my swollen right wrist was full of badly pulled ligaments.
I spent the rest of that summer with a cast on my arm sitting in a
wheelchair.
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My wrist swollen to almost the size of my knee
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I was scared I would never walk again.
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The stitches in my leg
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My high school sweetheart and I after my first
miserable follow-up appointment
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I was scared that nothing would ever be the same.
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Despite my fears, I did make it through and I
am more than able to walk now. Nothing is
really the same as it was before, but I am
more than okay with the changes.
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ssd
My leg, today.
My scars are barely visible.
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Life threw me down
an entirely different
path than I had
planned. I have
learned to adapt to
the unexpected and I
believe I am on the
right path.
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June 14th, 2007
Seven days after my high school graduation and
the first link in an unending chain of events that
would lend a hand in molding me into the adult I
continue to become.