hammarvolk2044

@@@@@The left side was slammed so hard against the Ram's doorpost that it fractured in three placesOr maybe it was fiveMy memory is better than it 7 used to be, but it's still a long way from what it once was The doctors called what happened to my head a contracoup injury, and that kind of thing often does more damage than the original hitMy right hip was shatteredAnd although I retained seventy per cent of the sight in my right eye (more, on a good day), I lost my right arm I was supposed to lose my life, but didn'tI was supposed to be mentally impaired thanks to the contracoup thing, and at first I was, but it passedBy the time it did, my wife had gone, and not just sort ofWe were married for twenty-five years, but you know what they say: shit happensI guess it doesn't matter; gone is goneSometimes that's a good thing When I say I was mentally impaired, I mean that at first I didn't know who people were - even my wife - or what had happenedI couldn't understand why I was in such painI can't remember the quality of that pain now, four years laterI know that I suffered it, and that it was excruciating, but 8 it's all pretty academicIt wasn't academic at the timeAt the time it was like being in hell and not knowing why you were there At first you were afraid you'd die, then you were afraid you wouldn'tThat's what Wireman says, and he would have known; he had his own season in hell Everything hurt all the timeI had a constant ringing headache; behind my forehead it was always midnight in the world's biggest clock-shop Because my right eye was fucked up, I was seeing the world through a film of blood, and I hardly knew what the world wasI remember one day when Pam was in the room - I was still in the hospital - and she was standing by my bedI was extremely pissed that she should be standing when there was a thing to sit on right over in the cornho