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The First LinkBy: Kristen Sell
This Presentation contains graphic images
June 7th, 2007
I graduated from high school with a great plan for
my future.
Mom, Dad, & Me
My siblings and me
Seven days later, I went on a camping trip
with my family. I was kicked by a horse and
shattered my tibia.
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)
Dad holding my hand at the
hospital
Close-up of the stick splint
The nurses removing the splint after a long
first day in the hospital
I was scared I wouldn’t make it.
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.
My wrist swollen to almost the size of my knee
I was scared I would never walk again.
The stitches in my leg
My high school sweetheart and I after my first
miserable follow-up appointment
I was scared that nothing would ever be the same.
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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My leg, today.
My scars are barely visible.
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.
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.