10th June 2007, Sunday, day which brought another turning point in my life.
June I feel is the month for me that has brought maximum changes in my life. And always that month has made me a much better person. I realised this last year i.e. June 2006. I never expected June 2007 to be so harsh yet so fulfilling. People until now would have come to know about my accident here in San Diego and for those who don't, here is the oppurtunity. So much more that could have happened that day and yet so much more that could have never happened.
June 2007
Getting hit by a car in the night is dangerous in itself and it becomes even more scary when you have nobody to help you out. The car came speeding at around 80 mph, hit me and just disappeared. I could see the car coming at that speed towards me from behind and yet wasn't able to jump off the bicycle, coz of a vertical cliff on my right side. I fell right on my face and skidded for some 10 feet. When I got up it was all dark and lonely. For next 10 seconds I just couldn't grasp where I was, "probably not on earth anymore", the 1st thing that came to my mind after that huge impact. But after that I looked for my bag and bicycle. My home was still some 4 miles away. That is the time I feel you can extract each and every bit of strength from your body and that's exactly what I did. I didn't had enough strength to wipe-off the blood flowing from my forehead. I wasn't able to see anything from my left eye coz of the blood, my knees were bruised badly, my palm coudn't hold the cycle-handle and my nose was like a tap of blood, but still I never gave up.
After reaching home, when I saw myself in the mirror, I just couldn't recognize myself. I lost about half-a-gem sized chunk out of my chin and that left a hole on my chin. My left-forehead was so badly injured, that i couldn't see any skin there at all. My left cheek was all pink, coz the upper skin layer was gone. The same happened with the left-side skin of my nose. Another wound was on the left of my left eye (I dont know how to define all those areas on your face :D, but doing my best). I tried my best to clean some of those wounds but to no avail. I wasn't able to stand on my feet, wasn't able to touch anything with my hands with all those bruises. I somehow managed to reach home and call my guide at 11:30 pm coz there was nobody else at my home.
It was all looking pretty organised at the hospital with scans and everything until doctor came to give me some stiches. I just coudn't imagine how I took that pain of injections on my wounds. My body was shivering immensely but neither the nurse nor the doctor did anything to stop that. Probably they knew that getting 4 injections right between your wounds on your forehead will pain a lot. But with no surprise to me, there was more to come. Doctor gave me 1 injection in between my eyebrows, 3 between nose and lips and 4 on my chin. By the time doctor finished with all his stuff, I noticed that there was nobody in the room though my guide and a nurse were there when he started. Then came the easy part, atleast for me. Doctor started with the stiches. I never counted at that moment coz I was very tired at that time in the morning and wanted to sleep. So when doctor was stiching on my face I was resting as nothing has happened. But still I have no reason to hide how many stiches I received that day. I got some 15+ stiches on my forehead alone, got just 3 stiches in between my eyebrows on my nose, 7 stiches between my lip and nose and 10 stiches on my chin. A person with good arithematic can count the total I suppose ;).
But this was not it. I had a big wound inside my mouth which doc said will heal itself. It took around 15 days for that wound to heal and I was on liquid diet all that time. I had a fracture on the right bone of my nose and again the doc said it will heal itself. Luckily I had no inside damage to my skull and you will find the same old CHIRAG still :D, though only mentally. Physically or rather Facially I have changed a lot. I dont know how my left-eyebrow would look like after the forehead heals. Still not sure about the scars, whether it will remain or go, but some are definate to remain. My chin is due to sustain some deformity and my left lip might also sustain some of that. But after all these horrifying experiences, my experiments hasn't stopped. I went for a party just after 5 days, I couldn't eat much there, so I just drank :D. And the weekends after that has just been the same for me. Entertaining and fulfilling.
It has also taught me an important lesson about myself. No matter what happens nobody can snatch away my smile from me :). And I just wish to remain the same.
June 2006
I can't believe I am going to write about that, coz many people will just pour hundreds of questions on me to know more details, so lets leave it here only :P.
June 2005 and before
I think its mostly related to my school and 1st yr and its not as interesting as you would like it to be.
Hope you had something good to read and wait for sometime about my more deadly experiments here.
Cheers!!!!
