On February 21, 2009 my wife and I were in a near fatal car crash. We were both transported to Spectrum Hospital in critical condition. I was unconscious for 30 minutes, and my injuries included a shattered clavicle, crushed elbow, open lower tibia fracture, torn knee cartilage, and a tendon ripped loose in my ankle. As a result I needed a six hour surgery to have 6 plates and 36 screws put in to hold my bones together. Another surgery was done to repair my knee and fix my tendon. I had many months of rehabilitation therapy, as a patient at Mary Free Bed hospital and in outpatient therapy. My wife was not so lucky. She broke her ankle, wrist, pelvis, part of her C2 vertebrae, both of the orbital bones of her face, and a few ribs. She also had a bruised liver and lungs. But the injury that has most affected our lives was a traumatic brain injury.