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Worst VACATION ever.

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By Jazmyne Taggart Published 4 years ago 3 min read

On may 21, 2019. I hate the change of my life, I was in a traumatic car accident with a death. I was in the backseat of the car sleeping at the time. Me and my cousin her boyfriend we went to Atlanta for her to do a hair class because she is a hair stylist in Pittsburgh. We had planned on leaving at 4 o’clock after the class and her boyfriend would drive the whole way home. We thought he slept the whole time we were in the class but we seem to be wrong. We got on the road everything was OK me and him wanted to smoke before we hit the road really so we stopped and got some marijuana. After we smoke we were on the road and we had to stop and get gas after driving for a while and I said my head hurt. So once we start I got out the car and got my pillow from out of the trunk and my cousin wanted hers as well so she can sleep too. We was driving for six hours about once we got in North Carolina I believe he started to get tired. At 6 AM he was driving behind a guard rail and once he realize he was behind the guard rail he woke up and it was too late. We hit a steel pole at the end of the guard rail making the car crash horribly. Pp the driver died, my cousin suffered from broken wrist& ankle. I suffered from a traumatic brain injury and fractured spine. While in the hospital the doctors were very scared on my second day in the hospital. They entered a breathing tube into my head and told my dad my life was basically ran off of a cord plugged into the wall right now. He asked if the power went out what would happen and they told him I would die. I was in the hospital for 30 days in North Carolina, there were times when I was trying to leave on my own to the point where they put a tent around my hospital bed.All because I kept getting up and walking out into the hallway. My younger sister had to teach me how to walk, and write again or through FaceTime. Before I was about to leave the hospital the doctors told me that I was not allowed to live by myself for six months to a year, drive a car for six months to a year until the doctor approve me to drive, I wasn’t allowed to be by myself either. So once I came home I had to move out of my house that me and my boyfriend had. My vehicle got repossessed while I was in the hospital so I didn’t have a car either once I came home. My dad is an auto mechanic and he could get cars very cheap, but he didn’t want to get me one until my vision was back to normal so I didn’t almost kill myself. Once I came home I didn’t listen and decided to go buy myself a car because I received the settlement for the accident. I went and bought a car and didn’t listen to my dad. I thought everything was fine and I was OK. I was in another relationship with a man that was horrible and worse than my ex. And he asked me to take him to work one day after hitting me in my face while I was at home in my eye. So I called my dad and told him I really didn’t feel like I could drive that day because I got hit in my eye and he told me not to drive my car. Of course I didn’t listen I drive him to work I’m on my way back home and I crash my car. I was OK because this time I actually had my seatbelt on and I had my brace on my back that they gave me in the hospital. Once I got out of there and I got home I was scared to drive after that. Now I’m back better and back on the road trying to get my life back together!

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