July 27, 2020 marks seven years since Jeff’s spinal cord injury. I don’t think I will ever be able to shake that feeling there on the beach, watching my husband be pulled limp and lifeless from the water.
The terror of thinking he was dead, the relief when I heard him talking, the confusion as to why he couldn’t move, and the heavy realization that I’d just witnessed my husband break his neck are feelings embedded deep within my being.
Those feelings resurface now and then, but in truth, we’ve moved beyond them being a part of our daily life. As with any life-changing incident, you go through stages as you begin to move forward.
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