The Wreck

 On September 24, 2016 I went to the lake with friends and at some point I left the lake although I dont remember leaving there.  I ended up in a horrible wreck.  I rolled the car several times and hit a culvert and the car burst Into flames.  I have no memory of the actual wreck just things I learned later.  I was told when the car landed I was screaming out for help.  There was a man who lived a couple houses up the street off Highway 69 here in mineola that heard the wreck and came to my rescue.  He came down and could not get my door open so he climbed in the back window of the tahoe I was driving.     I was in a friends car and she had ammunition in the back.  So as my hero climbed in to save me the ammunition was firing off.  Noone else even bothered to try to help me.  He climbed in and couldn't get my seatbelt off as the flames were all around us burning us both.  He never gave up though he asked God to please help him and he said at that moment God made the seatbelt unbuckle.  He said I looked him in the eyes and said please dont let me die.  He told me he would not let that happen.  He managed to pull my burned and bloody body out of the driver seat and to the back of the Tahoe and finally another person rushed to help him get me out and away from the car for fear of an explosion.  My hero didnt want a bunch of media attention so when the paramedics arrived he slipped away and back to his home.  I would not learn who he was until later.  I was care flighted to a hospital in tyler.  My mom said my heart actually stopped for 6 minutes.  I was on life support briefly and then kept sedated due to all of my injuries.  I was severely burned on my arm and neck.  I also had a large gash in my head.  They ended up doing a tracheotomy and putting a trach tube in my throat.  The trauma and smoke had caused my trachea to narrow and I couldn't pass air to breathe.  I was in the hospital for 54 days most of which I dont remember. 

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