by Crash Support Network | Jun 10, 2024 | Survivor Story |
How I Survived Surviving – One Musician’s Journey to Recovery I’m no stranger to plans completely derailing. Just two nights before the accident our converted van was practically swallowed by thick mud in Las Vegas, New Mexico, forcing us to stay awake...
by Crash Support Network | Jun 10, 2024 | Survivor Story
Why You Shouldn’t Say These Phrases to Someone Who’s Grieving When I was hit head-on by a drunk driver in May 2021, the immediate recovery was undeniably the most difficult time of my life. The day before my crash, I was a healthy 22-year-old attending an...
by Crash Support Network | Mar 7, 2024 | Survivor Story
Poetry For Healing: Making Sense of a New World May 22nd, 2020 was not a typical day. I was starting work late due to a routine doctors appointment and a post-op pet rabbit. I would end it in a hospital bed, with strict instructions not to move in case I...
by Crash Support Network | Sep 22, 2023 | Organizations, Survivor Story
We’d finally made it. After 16 years of marriage, 5 kids in 6 years (including 2 sets of twins), health challenges galore, financial hardship… life. For the first time we finally felt like things were at that ‘point’ that we’d always wanted to get to. During COVID...
by Crash Support Network | Jun 14, 2023 | Survivor Story
The way I move through my days now is so incredibly different and yes there is the sacredness and how I love the sacredness of my life now post-accident. My innate ability to appreciate life’s little moments is the epitome of what I would call sacred. But it...
by Crash Support Network | Jun 6, 2023 | Crash Survivor Blog, Survivor Story
I survived a Zombie apocalypse. I used to be such a good little zombie. My car accident happened in 2014 right when my career as a nurse was going full tilt and my husband and I were launching our kids. All of a sudden, I found myself waking up in a seeming...
by Crash Support Network | Mar 14, 2023 | Organizations, Survivor Story
On February 22, 2016, a routine afternoon my beloved husband, father and high school math and science teacher, Tim O’Donnell as well as our 5-year-old daughter Bridget, lost their lives in a horrific car crash caused by a habitual drugged driver. My now...
by Crash Support Network | Feb 21, 2023 | Crash Survivor Blog, Survivor Story
Catastrophic Crash Survivor – Who Are You? I was wrong. Most of you do not know me personally. If you did, that first sentence would be jarring. Wrong is not something I admit often – or at least often enough. It was early in my catastrophic recovery; I...
by Crash Support Network | Dec 13, 2022 | Brain Injury, Organizations, Survivor Story
On August 15, 2011, Greg and I, along with our friend Jimmy, were riding our Harley Davidsons along the scenic section of highway 95, about 60 miles south of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Greg was feeling sick, probably from food poisoning contracted at a diner the...