I’ve heard from a few eyes and a few words, that I can be awfully confusing to a few people. But it helps when you know a bit about my history. So here goes:

1) At seven years old, I fell three stories. I broke a bone in my head. It debilitated my sense of time, and left me with pain in my neck and head for years to come. I began hearing my pains described by old people, as their pains from age, when I was a child. 

2) I had carbon monoxide poisoning, at age twenty one. I also had a condition of walking pneumonia, which was through one lung and a third through the second lung. I also had muscle tissue break down, from starvation. In the hospital, they only initially knew about the carbon monoxide poisoning. So they thought I was doing drugs instead. Therefore, they took away the air to my brain for too long, and gave me brain damage, so that they could test me. These tests showed the pneumonia and the starving to death part. That explained it.

3) At age twenty four and twenty five, I was being brain damaged by five chemicals which had seeped into the ground from some broken pipes. They were in my air and water. This gave me terrible brain damage. It changed my life and how I interract with those around me. Everything changed. I lost a lot of things, and had to rebuild it.

4) In 2003, I had an ATV accident. It threw me off of it to the right and the guy to the left. I landed on my face. He landed on his back. The ATV, all three thousand pounds of it, bounced off of my back, and down the hill. 

I am still alive, but not in one piece. I have been putting myself back together, ever since.

By Kat Lyons