My Angel

I heard it, I didn't see it. A semi hit me behind the drivers seat, everything went into slow motion. Around and around, in my mind I thought I still controlled the car. Then it stopped, piled against a pillar of the overpass. Quiet, I could not hear anything, I started to smell everything, my sweat, the shit in my pants, the gasoline, the burnt tires, the weather. My door opened and I got out and started to walk away from the car. My legs didn't work, I fell on the pavement. In the ringing of my ears, the now loud sound of cars honking, screeching, crashes, I was lifted by my arms and I was dragged along the pavement.

I woke up three days later in a hospital, in traction, in a cast from my toes and over my hip and the small of my back. I saw a boy in the bed beside me, pretty fucked up. The nurse walked by and came over to me and looked into my eye. She left and several other nurses and doctors came. The days passed before I was sent home, into a duplex apartment with stairs, a roommate who told me to suck it up. I got up, out of bed and crawled to the kitchen. Pulled myself up and fell out the door onto the back porch and down the four steps and passed out.

I woke up on the floor of the living room, a woman stood over me, a man was on the phone. They helped me to my bed. I woke up and a girl was sitting on a kitchen chair. She wiped my face, fed me with a spoon, her mother changed and cleaned me, the girl gave me a sponge bath, she fed me by hand, slept on the floor in the room, held my penis to pee in the bed pan. Days went by, my angel didn't leave, she helped her mother turn me to wipe my ass, spoon feeding me.

I spent a year before I started to walk again, before I could return to college, my neighbor cooked for me, my angel did the laundry and cleaned the apartment. She walked behind me when I started to walk, she read the newspaper, combed my hair.

My neighbor was an LVN and her daughter was 14 when I was hurt. I owe them more than words can say, they may not have been the doctors that saved my life, they saved my soul.

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by Anonymous on Nov 15, 2020 at 8:07 PM

Glad you were able to make it through. Were you able to keep in touch with your angels?

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