The evening my life changed forever.
On October 7th 2017 at approximately 9:00 in the evening my life changed forever. After being out with the Patriot guard on a meet and greet at a church in fortville I in several of the riders were returning back to Anderson on State road 67 just south of I-69 in front of the IMI gravel pit when I hit a deformity in the road throwing me into construction barrels and laying my motorcycle down landing me on my right side breaking my leg making damage to my knee my ribs and my shoulder and also a concussion to my head with a large cut above my eye. Had it not been for quick reaction of other riders who have medical training I may not have been in the shape I am now have they not been there. I went through several surgeries day in and day out of rehab. A situation that I was going to therapy for cause an even greater pain to my heart just two years into my reading of it got to the point that my wife and I could no longer feel emotional toward each other at that point she had decided to file for divorce because of my emotional instability. Since she left me I have been on my own working hard still on the brain injury and dealing with it and seeing professional help. I have not gotten back on a motorcycle but that's not saying that I want I've just not had the energy and time to deal with the repairs to do to it to get back on it but that soon will change with some help of some good friends. We always say that God has a plan for us and he will not reveal that plan until the right time. I believe that and I see everyday the miracles that God has put into my life keeping me alive through this and through the other health issues that I've had over the past six years. I think the members of my family who have stood behind me through all this that includes my ex-wife for her help and everything she did for me over the past 6 years even leaving me she helped me get out of a slump that was a downward spiral. And I thank all my friends for being there for me those from the Patriot guard from the church on Main Street the Christian writers who have stood with me and kept me going in many ways I also would like to thank my mother-in-law for being such a good friend in this past year. I told her doctor one time when he told me that I would never walk again and then I would spend the rest of my life in a nursing home but he didn't know me he didn't know my fortitude of course I used some very vulgar language when I told him that. I have come back and I'm still coming back and I'm evolving and I'm seeing in myself what I hadn't seen in years. October 7th 2017 is a mark in my life that I remember every day whenever I get up and feel the pain at those points that's still there be they mental or physical I am blessed and I'm still on that path that God has chosen for me.