So today I want to once again thank all of you, my family, friends, doctors, and supporters, who have shared in the recovery and the 5 years of life since.
In some ways I still am recovering, coming more to terms with the way I chose to interact with the world following the wreck and the short but challenging 3 month hospital stay.
So thanks to the many surgeons that fixed what seemed unrepairably broken. My mom who trusted the doctors to do their work even with the minuscule chances they gave me to make it. To the friends that sat by my bedside even when I wielded the "snot sucker". And all the friends who helped me stay positive through the worst of my "why'd this happen to me" lows.
Every day, but especially today, I am thankful to those who helped me get back to being me after the first 19 years of my life were seemingly torn apart.
As you know, the last five years have been a lot of rebuilding, but also a lot of living. I was able to finish my degree at UCSD "on time" even after missing a quarter. I spent a summer living in london, I was able to help build some amazing programs at UCSD that still benefit the students they were meant to help, I traveled across Europe and
worked a vindemmia in Italy, survived a winter in Minnesota, the summer in Florida, and now I'm planted in San Francisco, working at a startup and I have a fantastic community of friends around the world that truly make my life special.
So once again, thank you to all of you who have been a part of the journey. It's just going to keep getting better from here!
For more about the car wreck, check out my post from last year here
http://lifesincesungod.blogspot.com/2011/01/car-wreck-07-4-year-anniversary.html
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