City: Garner

Brain Injury: Automobile Accident

Explanation of Mask: In 1994 I was 14 years old riding my bicycle across Hwy 401 looking for SpaghettiOs.  A car hit me and threw my body back on the car.  The right frontal lobe of my head impacted the windshield. Even though it only left a crack in the windshield, it shattered that region of my skull.  I blacked out and rolled off of the car onto the pavement.  After being in a coma for three months, I went through all kinds of therapy to learn to walk and speak.  I do have short term memory loss.  I love cats, dogs, horses, and birds.  I loved music before and I still do.  My number 1 song is “Stairway to Heaven”, which is 13 minutes and 2 seconds long.  I have always loved the guitar and still love to play the guitar with my brother Joey.  I have learned far more than I have lost.  “Not to take things for granted, and to think before I act.” My mask represents some anger.  The tears represent initial sadness and later joy because I have reached a new boundary.  I added the feather for the big personality I feel that I have.  I live in a group home in Goldsboro, NC.