In English
This is my story. I am not proud of it. So, let this be a warning for you
I was pretty wild teenager and i want to share it with you. Don´t do what I did! Be smarter!
First part of my life.
Like most of us in childhood, we do and try all kind of stupid things and sometimes things goes really like they should not. Or least to me, this is what happend to me
A young man starting his vacation and going home via supermarket to get some beer. And why not, holiday and celebrating it with drinking beer. So wednesday, thursday and friday goes by , by drinking. Then it is saturday, had to slow down, because have to go friends wedding party. I did it! Wedding part is over and priest is on his way to home. Lets start the party!! Get those beers to the table YEAH!!! God knows how many beers I drank, I can not remember a thing. Friends told me later that we went for after party to the local club. There I told to the guy who was driving us around the places, the only one who was sober, that could he take me home, because I am getting pretty tired of this drinking. And he said , sure, lets go then. But then I saw my own car and got this idea. My car is here , so why not, I am able to drive myself to home. So I jumped in and took off. Next thing is quite plurry, but when I opened my eyes and I was in bed at IR not in that club where I was ment to be with my friends... What the hell has happend??
I quess you can figure it out: I lost control of my car. With too much speed I crushed my car , with roof first to the tree. And there is was sideways at the bottom of a ditch. Luckily I had the seatbelt on, but still I was hanging out the sidewindow. If I would have had sat on seat straight on , the roof of my car would had crush my head. 25th of july 1998
Those first 3 days in IR are really plurry. I remember lost people around of me. Tubes connected to my body and peeping noises all over the place.
When I finally got out of the IR, I had to start my life from begining.
Second part
You have plenty of time to think while you are tide to the bed for 2 weeks. What in earth did I do? Why did I do it? Was life not good enough for me? Thinking of these , I got some energy out of somewhere and decided to start a new kind of life. That new life did not start like I wished. Nurses makes me to sit up and that makes me feel dizzy, because I have in a bed so long time. They kept doing it for so long and finally the dizziness wore off. 8 weeks goes in the hospital. Going up and down in a hall with a wheelchair. Wondering how I am ever gonna get out of this chair on my own, to the bed, to shower etc., or go to the places with it. Following 8 weeks I was in Käpylä were is rehab center for minusvalids. There I found out that I was not the only one and days went past flying by learning this new life of mine and finding out that after all this is not so hard. I can still move and do things with my wheelchair.
Finally came the BIG day 8th of december 1998, and I got home to see how life really is with a chair. Begining for hard, but I learned quickly.
Now that 10 years has gone past, my life is back in a track, good ways. I can do all kind of things, even that I am tide to this wheelchair. Computer and internet are important tools of my life now. With this I can do a lot of things and the wheelchair is not barrier for anything ,it just makes it a little slower.
What I want to say with this writing in, that THINK OF YOUR LIFE, and all the oportunities what come a long, do not waste it on purpose ,with drinking too much or using drugs. Think twice before doing it. Be this a warning samble of what can go wrong when you give too much will and power for what is evel and bad.
All of you, reading this, tell it to your friends and family, drinking and driving is not a good combination, you can so easily ruin your whole life and life of those who are around you. My life is good now, even that I can not move without my chair. No complains. Now I can respect life better that before.
After all this, I can sing " Jeesus I praise you, I am singing this song for you. You have come to my life. YOU SAVED MY FROM DEATH. You came from heaven to show me the way...
What ever happends in your life, remember God is real, and He will help you all you need to do is ask.
Text: Tero Jermoranta
