My father and my brother died in the fire. My brother was only five. Go to Their memorial page here.
This is how I saved my own life. I ran to the bathroom and I put cold wet towels under the door and around me and then I just layed far back away from the door, sitting there balling my eyes out. Whenever the fireman came in I was unconsious. Robert, and Doug, firefighters saved my life. I am seventeen years old now and I almost died three times in the hospital after the fire. I was in the hospital for
8 months. I did not talk for almost six months (0nly able to open my eyes and move around a bit. I could not even cry or smile for about three months of it!)
They said that I would never wake up. The nurse put a feeding tube down my lung instead of my stomach. I am mad at the nurse for what she did to me. I only have one lung now because of the nurse. I would have two lungs if it wasn't for that mistake. I am very very happy to be alive. I have lots and lots of friends, too many actually.
Never ever cook French fries in a regular pot. Get a deep fryer! That's why my fire started. I stopped breathing when we hit the train tracks on the way to the hospital. At Saint Martha's hospital they could not do anything for me so I had to go up to the IWK. They treated me like a queen up there.
I am in a wheelchair now because what the nurse did to me cost me the chance to walk again. I stopped breathing for 4 minutes straight! That affected the part of my brain that controls my walking. The doctors said I would never walk or talk ever again. I walk with a walker. I talk just fine. My Mom lives with me and Joe, whom she married this summer. I also lived with a dog called Gadget for a while when his owners couldn't take care of him. You can see his picture in the photo album.
I liked to swim in my friend Laura's pool. It was fun with her and her brother. Laura shares her brother (who made the title for this page) with me. Laura moved to Edmoton lastyear. I like to listen to music. I love limp Bizkit, it rules! I love to watch TV. My favorite food is chocolate. I love talking on the phone. I love hanging out at the malls. I am 19 now and have a liquor lisence!
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