For 18 years I had the most wonderful dad in the world. I was daddy's little girl. I left him a note telling him how much I loved him before this tragic day! I was in school and my princpal came in and got me and told me there was someone waiting for me. At that point i didn't hnow who i was about to see! There stood my aunt red and puffy eyed! i asked what was wrong and she told me it's your dad he has been in a really bad construction accident. I thought oh my dad he was always getting hurt and always bounced back!! Something deep down told me that this one was different! She drove me to the hospital that seemed to take forever and when we arrived, we went to the thirteeth floor where all my family was standing just sobing! My mom came to me and took me to the bathroom and explained to me that my dad was in bad shape he fell off a ladder and two trusses came down and landed on his head! She said all the bones in his skull were broke and they were removing a blood clot off his brain! I broke down that's my daddy, the man nothing can happen to! He was in surgery about 12 hours and the doctors told my mom if he woke up out of his coma he would probably be a vegatable for the rest of his life!! The next couple of months were hell, he was in a coma for 32 days! And when he finally woke up it was alot different than i thought it was going to be. I thought he would be just like he was before but it wasn't like that! He didn't even really know who i was, at one point he called me Shirley Temple. Which broke my heart. He came home finally and nothing was the same my mom was under so much stress trying to take of him! It was like we had the outer shell of the man we used to know but his inner soul was gone. It has been 6 years since that horrible day and he can walk, talk, write, run, and anything anyone else can do except drive!! But it really hurts when you look at a man that you used to call daddy not even really remember you being his little girl! I do count my blessing everyday that he is alive!! I know have a litle boy that is almost 3 and this is the only man he knows as Grandpa but what i wouldn't give to have my daddy back!!
Reason for writing:
I love my dad and i want people to know how a head injury can change your whole life and make you become someone you never really were!
Birth sign: Pisces
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