this happened august of 2006 (end of summer) i was 5’5 175 pounds..the smallest but i kept up with everyone..this is my story it was a typical day at football practice, doing the usual hitting drills. i was a beast at what i did on the field. as usual i was going in and out of drills like a true beast on the field. i didnt consider myself the best but i had heart in what i did. i played every single position u can think of except for catching and throwing the ball because i cant catch for shit and cause i cant throw. practice was going so well;i was beasting like the usual knocking people on there ass. there was just one problem tho;my shoulder kept bothering me with sharp pains. i told the coach all this but he told me to suck it up and so stupid me i just keep on going. 1st part of practice was almost over and i was walking to the locker room so i can get food and a drink when i all of a sudden collapse,blacking out. at first people were like wow hes prolly playing around. then i didnt get up for 5 minutes and so they called the coach to see what was wrong with me. they tried to wake me up but i didnt respond. the coach called 911. they arrive a few minutes after and check if there are any signs of some problem and discover that my eyes were dilated and then procceded in rushing me to the hospital. when i arrive to the hospital they rushed me to emergency room and the doctors there check me and discoverd i had a blood clot and immediatly they operate on my head after the CAT scan.they start operating on my head opening my skull to get the blood clot out. they remove it and try to put back the skull piece they had removed to get in my head.half way into the process there was complications so they removed it for about 6 months.after the second surgery i went into coma for 9 days. 9 days had passed and then i finally woke up..when i first woke up i tried to get the things on me off and tried to get off but discovering half my body was paralyzed i fell on my face. the doctor told me the reason why i couldnt move. so then i stayed in the hospital for 3 monghs which was also the length of time that it took until i finallay got atleast 75% of my feelings on my left side of my body. i left the hospital after intense therapy(physical, occupational, and speech). by this time i missed half the year of my junior year in high school. i took home school for a month before they let me go back to school. going to school was a hard experience for me because i didn function correctly( walking, thinking and talking). everything was so frustrating,it made me wanna give up so bad but there was something that told me not to. i couldnt play sports and do things that i loved. another reason why i was so frustrated was that i would never be able to step on that football field to play my favorite sport that i loved. I had so many peoples support but i was still depressed.i tried to find everything to get back on my feet but things seemed so impossible.stupid things kept happening to me that i wished would have never happened.i lost my bestfriend and till this day i dont talk to her. even tho all this shit happened i broought myself up from that pit that i was in. senior year was almost here and finally after 6 months of waiting i got my 3rd surgery to get my skull back.i woulda gotten it a month earlier but they had missplaced my skull.after all this i had grown some beasty ass hair but i didnt like it…so i cut it and kept a tail..till this day i still have my tail to remind me of what i went through to get to where i am.