Kennedy Bingham

My arm was broken and I have a scar on the back from where the bone like busted out.

My collarbone was broken.

And then my injury for my arm was called a brachial plexus injury.

You have five main nerves that run your arm.

Three of mine were pulled from the root, so I was leaking spinal fluid.

And the other two were just stretched.

And so actually when my accident first happened, I had no function.

Like it was completely paralyzed.

And then, like I said, my two main arteries were ripped.

And in total, I've had 21 surgeries since then.

like from the accident and then a year after to get a little bit more function but yeah i spent seven weeks in the hospital i was intubated which was like the worst experience ever because you just got like the whole tube down your throat the only way i could communicate was hand squeezes and so at first like this hand was even so weak like i could barely move and so they would like put their hand in and it was like squeeze once for yes and squeeze no

or squeeze twice for no and squeeze three times for I love you.

And so that's like what we communicated because I couldn't talk.

And then I could finally get to a point where I could like write in their hands a little bit.

But that was like really hard for them to understand.

And so I'd get really frustrated and just like swipe it away and cry because you're just in so much pain at that point.

Yeah.

And no one understands.

No one can help you.

There's nothing they can do.