Karyn

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i'm a professional volunteer, or something. i love the girl scouts and little league. i do a lot for the PTA. my divorce will be final on my birthday, december 27. why i'm miracle girl: i was in a really bad accident on September 3, 2002. the doctors said i'd be dead within 3 days. my husband overheard a nurse on the phone telling the news that there's no way i'd make it through the night because they'd never seen intracraneal pressure so high. but i was still there. my husband says when he came to me at the hospital and told me he was there a tear rolled down my cheek. when i didn't die, the doctors said i would be a vegetable if i ever came out of my coma. i was a bit loopy for the first few weeks out of the coma. i don't remember that time at all, but they say every time i woke up, they had to tell me again what was going on. i had to have restraints because i would try to disconnect myself and say i was going home. i couldn't speak much at all because i had had a tracheotomy, and the doctor that did it had never done one before and scarred my trachea. one of my vocal chords was paralyzed for a while. i wasn't allowed to have water or anything. not even ice chips, but my family snuck me some now and then. my memory begins when i was moved to rehab. my third miracle was that the doctors said i'd never walk again, but one day i went to my orthopedic surgeon, started off in the xray lab as usual, and when he called me in he told me he didn't believe he had the right xrays at first because the bone that hadn't been healing all of this time was there. just all of a sudden, there it is. so, i started walking. i still can't do long distances without significant pain, and i'm a little slower than most people, but overall i'm pretty normal. the last year has been the hardest year of my life. on august 24th, 2005, just when i felt like i was starting to be me again, my husband told me that he loved me but hadn't been in love with me since my accident and would be divorcing me in a year. i was supposed to be adopting his kids, but he nipped that in the bud after i got their biological mother's parental rights revoked. he had adopted my son, but now says he's not his dad and has nothing to do with him. i tried and tried. i promised him if he'd pretend like he loved me for that year, he'd be in love with me by the end of it. (fake it, make it) he wasn't interested. he just didn't want to be married any more. around may i started to accept that. in june i asked him not to wait for august to file because i wanted the divorce to be final by the end of the year. i lived with my mom for a little while. i'm in my own place now. i'm getting my life back on track slowly, but surely. God has taken such good care of me through every trial in my life, and this is no exception. oh, i forgot to tell you, back when i was still in the wheelchair, i could not stop gaining weight no matter what i did. i gained 100 lbs in a year. so, i had gastric bypass. i lost 200 lbs in 2 years. i've started having the plastic surgeries to make me normal. i've had my stomach and arms done. my chest is on dec. 1, and my legs will be closer to the summer next year. well, i decided to write this all out because some of you i'm just reconnecting with and you don't know the whole thing. some people are new to my life and don't know the whole story. that's the gist of it. last year was also terrible because i was working at a school that was prejudiced against me because it took me longer to walk across campus than other teachers. but at the same time, i met some awesome people and started a cadette girl scout troop that i love. now i'm a substitute. i'm starting work on my ph.d. so that i can teach at the college level one day. i still volunteer lots. pta and girl scouts keep me busiest. one of these days the little league will call me to keep score again. i love doing that. i have awesome friends. my best friend has the cutest baby in the world. (he's 2 now, but i just can't stop refering to him that way.) my friends tease me about this myspace thing, but i've reencountered a lot of old friends and made some new ones. so, it all just depends on how you look at it and what you do with it. one day i hope to find someone to share life with, but for now i'm trying to focus on myself and my son. happy holidays! i love you all!