I Accidentally Paralyzed My Dad
episodePreviously titled “Ran Over and Disabled My Dad” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 3, 2026
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
My name is Courtney Klein. I have been married for 14 years. We have three kids here, two in heaven. My husband owns a business and I am getting used to saying this, but I'm a content creator. I love it. Yeah. So I am here to share my story about an accident that happened with my dad when I was younger that shifted both of our lives. and then how I feel like I have used that trauma to shape my life moving forward. So little backstory about my family. my dad is like the goofiest dad he just always had that like contagious personality anytime my friends were over he's like the he's like the dad that like gives them nicknames picks on them they're always like act like he's annoying but like you know everybody loves him he was a custodian at a local middle school and like i remember going to work with him and like
he'd walk in and like all the kids if they were in the cafeteria or whatever just freak out because they loved him so much um so we had a like i feel like i had a good childhood like we did my parents did the best with what they had that's kind of you know where we were at and i was always a daddy's girl so I specifically remember one time my mom told my dad to take me back to the bedroom to spank my butt. We were a spanking family. You know better, you do better. Okay, we're a spanking family too. We turned out good. I remember her telling him to take me back there and spank me.
What life-changing event did Courtney experience with her father?
I had done something. I can't remember what it was, but... I remember he, like, took me back there, had his belt, and was like, pretend to cry. And he, like, smacked the bed with his belt. Like, that was my dad. Like, he couldn't... There was no way. Like, that's how... So, we didn't have a very big family. I had one brother. And, you know, it was just a good childhood. So, I feel like... my dad's like there's like two memories you know like there's two separate time frames it's like my dad before the accident my dad after the accident um and it's it's kind of like my my childhood's like split into if that makes sense so I had my license. It had my license for a little while. And my dad had this big truck that I loved.
Like I thought I was so cool in that truck. Like my friends would get in the truck with me. So we were, I grew up in West Virginia, closer to Kentucky. Most of your roads are like back roads. You've got to pull over to the side to let another car through. So that's how my neighborhood road was. Had some blind spots in it. I was driving around with my friends in the truck, and we were going to meet our boyfriends, but we had to run home first. And I remember like, you know, I'm in a hurry. You gotta run home real fast, and I just was always on the go. So I was going a little too fast on our one-lane road, and my dad, we had a huge hill behind our house, so... When he mowed the grass, it was like with a four-wheeler with a mowing deck attached to the back.
So he would do that. It was a Friday. He's mowing the grass, drink a couple beers. That was like a normal thing for him to do. And then before he would put the four-wheeler up, he would detach the mowing deck. And, like, he used to ride dirt bikes, go super fast. Like, he loved that, so... He turned his hat backwards and he'd take off down the road a couple times on the four wheeler. So our timing was just not great. He was coming up where there was a blind spot and I met him right there. So It's always like we were always kind of unsure, like did I tip the four-wheeler or was it just where he locked up the brakes because we met each other? If our timing had been a tad bit worse, we would have hit head-on for sure.
Okay.
I mean, we were seconds from hitting head on. So I just remember coming through there. We had music on and it was just like out of nowhere. There's my dad, like just coming at me very fast. And we think that like. he locked up the brakes in a panic, and I did too. But on a four-wheeler, that's very different. So he locked up the brakes, and it threw him behind my truck, way behind the truck. Four-wheeler. So he went over?
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:39
2
What life-changing event did Courtney experience with her father?
1:39–9:35
3
How did the accident impact Courtney's childhood and family dynamics?
9:35–25:23
4
What were the immediate consequences following the accident?
25:23–46:22
5
How did addiction become a part of Courtney's father's life after the accident?
46:22–52:26
6
What struggles did Courtney face while caring for her father?
52:26–1:23:35
7
How did Courtney's relationship with her parents evolve over time?
1:23:35–1:26:04