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my frightening experience by Kyle Consemiu Tarkington high school Cleveland Texas
It was Friday night, I didn’t have a football game
that night because it was our bye week, but the coach had asked some
of use to go watch the Shepherd and Woodville game. It was
important to go because we played Woodville next week and Shepherd
was our first district game. I don’t remember much of the game
other than Woodville won by a lot, but what would happen after the
game I will never forget.
My parents decided to go to the game also, so I was following my mom and dad home when my front tire fell down a one foot deep indention, I was forced into the ditch and the car flipped three times. While I was waiting for my family to arrive, I had to lie flat because it hurt so bad and I was having a hard time breathing. The only thing I could think about was how blessed I was to be alive. I was scared, but I told myself I would be fine and I would not miss next week’s game. When I arrived at Texas Children’s Hospital I was rushed into the trauma unit, where they started doing test, taking x-rays and did a c-scan, it was found that I had broke three vertebras, cracked my sternum and had lung contusions. All I could think about was how I may never get to play sports again.
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The first doctor told me that it wasn’t looking good and that sports may not even be possible in my future. I was blessed to have the support of my family, friends and my football team, which came to see me and told me that they would win the next game for me. This was a game that we were not suppose to win, we were like a thirty-five point under dog, but they pulled it out and won the game. I was in the hospital for a total of ten days, I had several x-rays, and c-scans done and now I was forced to wear a back brace that came from my neck all the way down to my hips. My parents decided to get a second opinion and took me to a Neurosurgeon who said that he did not agree with the previous doctor. |
He believed that if I took it easy and did everything that he said, I would have a full recovery and go back to my normal way of life. I was in the back brace for four months and that was the hardest thing I had ever had to do, but I believe it paid off. The doctor told me that I wasn’t going to be able to go through a full day of school for many months, needed to lie flat as much as possible and would have to go to physical therapy. I tried to go school for at least a couple of periods but with my back brace the pain was too much. The school told me that my grades were slipping and I had a tremendous amount of makeup work. I was forced to make one of the hardest decisions of my life, having to return next year and repeat my senior year again and not being able to graduate with my friends that I had been with all the way through grade school. The doctor, my parents and I all agreed though that it would be the best thing for my recovery, we did not want to take the chance of my back not healing properly and having to go through surgery.
For as long as I can remember it has been my dream to play sports in college and possibly take it to a higher level. Before my accident, I played the best football game of my career, making me think that what I had worked my entire life for could really happen, only to have it all possibly taken away in a single moment. All the time I spent in the weight-room, running extra sprints when everyone had left, and fighting thru all the pain, sweat, and tears might actually have been for nothing. People told me that I could help take Tarkington to the playoffs, which has not happened in fifty years, and this year was suppose to be my year.
I could have given up, but I was determined to do everything I could to get back on the football field. I had to drop out of school so my back would heal properly, I did everything the doctor told me to and I had a good recovery. Nine months later I was back on the football field. UIL gave me a Waiver of Eligibility and I played my senior year of football a year late. A perfect life is defined as being able to look back at all the adversity you have faced and to know that you have over came it, getting you to where you are now.
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