Put youself in his shoes for a day...

So this is kind of off subject, but today I got to thinking about my stepbrother and a tragic occurence that happened to him in the summer of 2008...I thought about how it would feel if this had happened to me...but here is the story...

It was a hot summer afternoon and I was on the computer when all of the sudden the phone rang. My dad was working on remodeling our house, and I went to pick up the phone, but he had already answered it so I just hung it up. A minute later I seen him rush out to his truck and bust down the driveway...I just figured he had forgotten something down at the shop...

About an hour the phone rings, and I let it ring because I thought my dad was back, but it kept ringing so I answered it. It was my dad saying that my stepbrother had been in a horrible accident on the same road I had rolled my car in the previous summer. What was even weirder was it was on the same day almost in the same exact spot.

You know, it didn't really hit me that it was that bad because he was still alive so I just figured he would be ok. But my dad said it wasn't going to be.

Kody had been thrown from his car 80 feet. He couldn't feel his legs, and he drug himself to his rolled car to try to find his phone to call for help. After the ambulance got there, I drove out to wear his car was. It was really hard to see 80 feet of blood drug in the grass to his car...

He was life flighted from the hospital in York to Byan in Lincoln where he then spent the next two days having extensive surgery. We all sat in the waiting rooms hoping and praying he would be able to walk again. Then came the bad news...

Kody had horrible injuries to his spinal cord, and the doctors didn't know if he would ever walk again. Let me just tell you that this all happened when Kody was going to be a junior in high school, and the starting quaterback for the football team. He was an amazing athlete who was popular and had a lot of friends...

Now comes to the part where I try to put myself in his shoes for a day...

First off I am an avid runner, who loves sports, and If I couldn't use my legs, I would go nuts. I use them for everything, and I don't think people realize how hard it would be to not be able to move your legs.

I love riding motorcycles and dirtbikes and jamming out on my guitar, all of which requires my legs. All of my favorite things would require my legs.

It has been a year and a half since the accident, and we have all adapted to the change, and so has Kody, but it still kills me to see my step brother, the amazing athlete sitting in a wheelchair. All of this has taught me one thing--don't take anything in life for granite.