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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
My name is Kennedy Bingham, and I was involved in a car accident where I was ejected out of the vehicle and hanging in a power line, 30 feet in the air, upside down for almost an hour, if not an hour, fully conscious.
That was literally going to be my question.
Chapter 2: What happened the day Kennedy's life changed forever?
Were you conscious the whole time? The whole time. Yeah.
Chapter 3: How did Kennedy survive being thrown into power lines?
And my memory is like not all the way there technically. Like I can't remember the full hour of like what exactly will happen. But like I've spoke with like the EMTs that were there and they were like, yeah, you were communicative the entire time.
Chapter 4: What injuries did Kennedy sustain from the accident?
Eyes open, everything like fully there.
Crazy. Crazy. Oh my gosh. Okay. So run me through it.
Okay. So a little bit before my accident, like this is the part that I guess people can relate to a little bit more, but I was 16 years old when it happened. And so at this point I lived in a really small town and small towns can be really hard. Just like people love to talk. They love to make gossip and rumors and all this stuff.
And at this point, I was like trying to figure out who I was because that's like typical as a 16-year-old girl. You're trying to figure out who your friends are and kind of what you want. And at this point, I did feel like pretty lost and lonely because also my dad had just been diagnosed with cancer at this point.
Chapter 5: What challenges did Kennedy face during her recovery?
And so I was really struggling with that because I felt like me and my dad were always very close. And my friends that I had also started making pretty poor choices, unfortunately. And I was like, oh... Maybe I should just go and who cares? Because at this point, me and my parents also didn't get along super well. I was very stubborn.
It's a hard age. I feel like at that age, we don't care about, I feel like, anything. And we're just, our mind is like, Not where it is in like 10 years from then.
Yeah.
Chapter 6: How did Kennedy cope with losing her independence after the accident?
And so that's definitely what was happening. And so I was just like, I don't really care. But luckily I still had enough self-respect from my parents. I was like, okay, like I'll keep it in reins. And I still was a good kid, but I was also struggling with depression at this point. I had thoughts of like suicide very often, just like, oh, it would be so much easier. I had an eating disorder.
So I'd go all day, every day off of energy drinks, gum, and just
maybe one meal a day just because I don't know I just was like in a really really hard mental spot so that's what's I think so empowering about my story is like then I go through something so horrific and then how I came out at the end so I just like really put my time into my friends and distance myself from my family a lot and that's just like where my focus was and I think that's kind of what like
also probably got me there just with the poor decisions and there's always a quote I look back on and it says the pain you've been feeling can't compare to the joy that's coming because I wish at that point in my life I could go back and tell myself that and I would probably be like what do you mean there's no way right but it's true and so then to get to the accident it happened on May 22nd of 2021 so the five-year anniversary is literally coming up so soon it's crazy it's even been five years it feels like forever ago but at the same time like oh my gosh still five years isn't that long no
No.
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Chapter 7: How did Kennedy rebuild her confidence after the accident?
And I actually, we have like really good friends, been friends for probably a year, if not longer. And he had like no idea it had been five years. And he was like, I thought that was like, I'm not going to lie, like eight years ago or something. And I was like, are you okay? And I was like, yeah, I'm good. He was like, that's just like so short and like where you're at.
And I was like, yeah, it's just crazy.
Chapter 8: What role did social media play in Kennedy's healing journey?
Like, I just have been cruising ever since trying to accomplish things, but I definitely should have lost my life that day. Not just my leg. Cause obviously I have a prosthetic now and my arms paralyzed. You can see all the scarring on it. It was torn off in the accident, just hanging on by the skin on my back. So like very tremendous injuries and At this point, I thought I was invincible.
Most kids think that way, though. In high school, I remember the speakers would come in and be like, oh, this is my story. And I would always be like, oh, sex for you. I wouldn't say that, but I would be like, oh.
It's funny you bring that up because I just filmed an episode where she was talking about something different, not like accents. But I was saying, you know, when these speakers come in and we're in high school, we don't think twice. It's almost a burden. Yeah. for us to go to these assemblies and hear it. No one's actually listening. And it sucks.
It's like there, I wish there was a way to make kids actually listen and understand. But at that age.
I figured it out though. Like I have, because I used to be that kid. Yeah. And so like, I used to go to the assemblies and be like, this is so dumb. Like this never happened to me. Right. But then like, I had that knowledge of like, I know what it feels like to think that way. How can I impact these kids?
So now when I go to high schools, I've had, I had, I went to Canada and I spoke at this high school and like teachers were like, we wanted you to come out here. We're so sorry because our kids are jerks. Like they are the worst kids you'll probably encounter ever. Like they're disrespectful. They're rude. And I was like, really? And they were like, yeah. So like, just do your best.
If it doesn't hit, it doesn't hit. That's fine. Like whatever. And I spoke and I was like, oh, I got it. Like, don't even worry. And these kids, like few boys, and they came and sat in the front row and they were like laughing at me at first and like, Like not just like you're not going to do anything.
Yeah. Right. Like not didn't care.
Yeah. They were crying by the end of my speech, like bawling. And they came up to me and they were like, we cannot believe like, and they were like, you don't realize what you did for us. And like that has happened at almost every high school.
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