Zack's Life lessons #5

Legs and boat propellers don't mix.

Trust me, I learned this the hard way.

So this is as I was getting my stitches. You probably notice the big gash on my knee first... it was pretty bad, but not the worst. You can see on my calf where it's stitched up, yeah, that boy was bad. Much worse than the one on my knee. I wish we'd gotten a picture before he stitched that one up, but before he numbed up my leg, I wasn't too concerned about getting a picture.

A few hours after, I decided to change my bandages and took a look at the damage. The big one on my knee still looks worse, but its not. The one on my calf is stinging much worse than the knee still. 

I ended up with 25 stitches, which I think is pretty impressive.

As I was getting stitched up, the nurse came in and warned the doctor about the next patient coming in. I'm not going to go into too much detail, but after he did the stitches on my calf, I ended up waiting about an hour for a different doctor to come in and finish up the other two while the first doctor went to help the next patient.

I laid there thinking about the next patient and how lucky I was to be in the situation I was in. I saw the family of the next patient come in and saw the pain they were in. It really got me thinking. Life is just way too short and everything can be flipped completely upside down in a matter of seconds. I was so blessed that all I got was three cuts on my leg. The propeller could have done so much worse to me than that and my family and I could have been in the same situation the young man after me was in.

I don't know, I guess I've just been really blessed in my life. I've been four car accidents that easily could have taken my life. I don't remember any of it, but my parents have told me many times about how blessed I am to have survived the problems I had as a baby...

I've had my heartbroken twice and I thought it was the worst thing that could possibly happen.

I wrecked my dream truck after only having it for two months.

Bad choices on both ends led me to losing one of the people I've been closest with for my entire life.

But I'm alive. My family is alive and things could just be so much worse. Three of those four accidents were with family members and any of us easily could have been taken.

I'm just so grateful that I've been blessed and watched over and I'm going to try my best never to take important things in my life for granted.

That's the biggest life lesson yet ;)