What were you thinking when you were flying through the air upside down?
I was trying to figure out the best way to get out of it, even though I was in the air for only a few seconds, it felt like I was there for ages, so I was trying to get my feet back underneath me so at least if I landed on my legs at the worst, I’d break a leg which in my case was looking like the best option when I was upside down…
What happened as you hit the road?
As soon as I realized I was going to land on my head at the last minute, I tucked my chin into my chest, I thought that it might help me roll, but, I pretty much just stopped dead… straight on the base of my neck at the top part of the shoulders.
I landed on the bone that you can feel when you pull your chin in…
What were you feeling lying on the road?
I knew straight away I broken my neck, because I heard the bones shatter, so I told my mates not to move me.
I was never knocked out, which in one way probably saved my life, I knew I shouldn’t be moved or touched
Can you describe what was happening to your body when you were lying on the road?
At first I was in shock, I thought there was a huge rock stabbing me in my back, then I thought my back had snapped up into my chest so I made my friend Luke (dingo) Trembath) to see if that was the case…
Luke carefully checked me out, we realized that stabbing into my back or chest.
My body stared going though different stages of shutting down, first I was joking, then I started stiffening up and convulsing abit…
My neck was shaking, so Luke and Daniel held onto my head to try and stabilize it…
Then my body went all relaxed and started winding down and fading out, that’s when I started swallowing my tongue…
Daniel realized and pulled my tongue back out which saved me…
Soon after that the medics arrived…
I knew I was in major trouble, when they moved me onto the stretcher, all my gear was black and my boots where bright green so I could just see them…
They grabbed my feet to put them on the stretcher I had had “zero” feeling, I thought I was cut in half, that was one of the most scariest feeling I had ever experienced.
And there is more
After you asked me to help you kill yourself and I said I couldn’t how did you feel?
I was frustrated because I didn’t want to live my life like that, stuck in a bed, watching the world go by, never to be able to snowboard, ride motorcross, run, jump things, drive, walk, party, live life and what chick was going to want to be with some kid stuck in a bed………
all these things and more seemed out of my life now, but when I had no other option, but to live, I realized pretty quickly that the sooner I tried getting the things that I loved back, the better chance I had of getting my old life back as much as possible…