Courtney Klein

He was very bruised, very scraped up.

I think he hit his head in multiple places because that's probably where the blood was coming from.

That's why he was so bloody.

And I just like, I remember my mom saying that and then me being like, he broke his neck, like he broke his back.

Like life's never going to look the same.

And then I remember sitting down and it was like this realization that it was my fault.

Like I can't even picture it now.

Like where everybody was sitting, my friends were on the sides of me and I like sat down in the chair and everybody's kind of talking.

And it was like I just sunk into that chair and was like, I did this to my dad.

Like this is my fault because I was driving too fast.

Why did I have to be in his truck?

Why did I have to be like, and it was like, at that point I was like, I just wanted to leave.

Like, I just wanted to disassociate and like, you know, I'd never experienced something like that before.

So I feel like I, once I had that realization, I struggled with that for a long time.

Like that, that was my fault.

So he went on to have seven surgeries, reconstructive surgeries to his arm.

When you shatter your elbow,

to get your arm to work, like they've got to do a lot of things.

So he had just like the same incision over and over again.

So when you have surgeries like that and you've got an injury that bad, they're giving you pain pills constantly.