In 2006 an event occurred that changed my life. I was skateboarding down a very steep hill (yes, I was 36 years old and skating without a helmet) and I came off the board while I was travelling at about 60km/hr hitting my head on the curb.
I was knocked unconscious and taken to the hospital where they discovered that I had fractured my skull in 3 places. I had a massive fracture running down the back of my skull and apparently the brain had bounced so forcefully to the front of my skull that it fractured both of my eye-sockets. I wasn’t supposed to live the night….but thankfully I did.
The next day, my eyesight was extremely blurry and I thought the morphine was affecting it. The neuro-surgeon warned me that apparently the fractures were severing the muscles at the back of my eyes and as a result, I could go blind. I wasn’t too concerned at this stage (strangely). I was more concerned about my work and that I hadn’t yet said what I really needed to say. The very next day (3 days after the accident), I had nothing short of an epiphany about my work and miraculously within minutes (yes minutes), my eyes had cleared and my vision restored. I checked myself out of hospital the very next day.