On April 19, 2007 fiance and I were heading home on a country road in
Darien, WI after being out and celebrating my birthday (nice present right?). I had been drinking, and he was my designated driver. We were in a
1993 Chevy Blazer. I was drunk and tired, so I told him I was going to sleep and to wake me up when we got home. I closed my eyes for probably 2 minutes when I heard him scream, and then felt the car jerk. He doesn't remember what happened because of head trauma he got, but we think there was a deer in the road and he swerved to avoid it. He swerved into the gravel, overcorrected and it turned our vehicle around into the opposite lane, and sliding sideways.
We flipped into a ditch going about 50mph, rolled twice and then somehow the vehicle managed the
flip front over back twice. So we flipped a total of 4 times. Neither of us were wearing our seatbelts and
I was ejected 50 ft, my fiance was thrown 130ft. This was one of those rare cases where if we had been wearing our seatbelts we would have been killed. I had tried to get up to look for my fiance but I ended up having
7 fractured bones and could not walk (
shoulder, collar bone, hip, pelvis, tail bone, knee and ankle) I also got 13 stitches in my forearm and several large cuts over my body (from glass and corn stalks), and a collapsed lung.
My fiance had two collapsed lungs,
a broken rib, and
severe brain damage. He ended up having to relearn how to walk, talk, eat, everything. Thank God someone stopped to call 911. My own friend who had been with us that night drove by, seen us in the cornfield, and kept driving. She called my phone to say "Theres a pretty bad accident, looks like your car, hope its not you! Call me!" Needless to say I don't talk to her anymore. We have both recovered fully and plan to marry June 14, 2008. =) Bonnie