UNSTOPPABLE

It was October, Halloween, 2013, when Roy had been putting up lights and a few motion lights on his wife’s flower shop. He was standing at the top of the ladder, stretching out a bit too far when he took a very long hard fall to the concrete ground. Everyone had heard the loud noise but didn’t hear anything from him. They all assumed he was fine. Roy had cracked his head open, busted his shoulder and collar bone along with breaking other bones in his body. He had stood up as if nothing happened and went on to put his tools away. Some time had passed and his wife decided to go check on him as they had plans for the night. When she walked out to find him she screamed for help and call for an ambulance. He was bleeeding severely and wasn’t aware of what was going on. Moments later, he was being rushed to the nearby hospital. Which wasn’t long after that he was sent to another hospital. As his family arrived at the hospital they awaited for news. It was serious and the doctors had informed his wife to call everyone because they didn’t know how much time he’d have left. They had gave him a 5 percent chance of living and then if he did survive they weren’t sure how the outcome would be. So with that, his wife called everyone they knew to let them know what happened to Roy.

Roy had been in a coma for weeks and when he came to, he was questioned about if knew who people were such as family and friends. It was a very long recovery for Roy. He had tubes coming out of his head and had several operations done. They had to put a plate in the one side of his head and he was in the hospital for a year. It was late 2014 when he was released and was assigned to do physical therapy. he had too learn how to do almost everything all overt again. It was a very long recovery for him and he still has severe mental issues and headaches. He suffers from memory issues and permanently disabled. Although, that hasn’t stopped him form working on his farm though he doesn’t have any farm animals. Only a small garden which he plants corn and other vegetables every year. It’s his safe haven where he goes to escape and it keeps him busy during the summer with keeping the grass cut and taking care of the garden. He loved sports and now seems he’s had to slow down a bit with some things. He tried to bowl as he was great at the game and loved playing golf with his friends from time to time. Mostly you will just find him at his farm outside of town.

Now here comes the next worse thing that could happen to him. It wasn’t long after Roy was back to some kind of normal when he learned that his wife now had cancer. He had felt that since he had fought and beat his life and death tragedy that she would be beat this and be good. Now there they were once again meeting with family and friends to give them the news. It was a very long battle of fighting and things not going quite well as they had hoped. Roy had only been well for not even two years it seemed and here it was early April of 2016 when he lost his wife to cancer. This was one fight that she couldn’t win and this had left him very devastated and lost. He was now alone after almost 40 years of being with her and still suffering from his accident. He felt like just dying so he could be with her but he wasn’t ready to die yet. He had his kids and grandkids and all of his friends and family. This was going to be something that Roy may never recover from. He came very close to dying was given a 5 percent chance to live then survives only to lose his wife to cancer almost two years later.

I couldn’t even imagine something like that happening to me going through something like that. It was a miracle that not only him surviving but making a complete recovery. He can take care of himself, and live a normal life with minor problems such as short term memory loss. He has gone through a great deal of loss and pain and my only hope is for him to find love and happiness again.