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Mike's Photos From The Road #79
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if you have no idea what this page is all about,
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lying in a hospital bed, sad. i have a broken back at this point, not feeling too good.
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hard to be happy when this is your view for 6 days and you can't move.
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but that's where friends come in. belen, the first woman to x-ray me at a different hospital, stopped by to see how i was doing, and then david, the husband of my spanish professor came by also. my spirits brightened considerably.
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belen brought a friend along who helped cheer me up also.
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belen even cut up my food and fed me.
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i still look like shit but i am feeling happier in this picture. i get by with a little help from my friends.
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the next day, carolina, my spanish professor in mendoza, showed up to accompany me to another hospital for an MRI.
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the ambulance driver pushes me on the stretcher towards the waiting ambulance. wait...is this really happening?
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yes it is. take it as it comes. roll with the punches. try to smile. keep on keepin' on.
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these smiles are partially to do with courage but mostly to do with the intoxication i felt from disbelief: there i was in argentina with a broken back. would i be able to walk, run, ski again? perhaps the worst day of my life.
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about to be stuffed into an MRI for a closer examination of my spine.
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my back has been healed?!?! it is no longer broken?!?! what? huh? how?
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well then, check me out of this place - i've got the world to see. leaving the hospital, my backpack riding in the wheelchair rather than me.
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