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Submitted By: Bobby Rodriguez

It was the day that everyones feared, Friday the 13th, in the month of November and in the year 1998. I was only 15 at the time and playing JV football. I was the star of the game and I played on both sides of the ball.(Offensive and Defence). During the first quarter of the game, I got hit and that hit bruised my left side of my brain. But the coaches didn't take me out of the game. Later on in the third quarter, I was running the ball up the middle when I got hit in the same spot and the hit popped a major vain in my head. I was bleeding from inside of my brain. Luckly for me there was ambulance on the side of the field. When I arrived at the hospital I went into a coma for 3 1/2 weeks.

Due to the accident I cannot see to the sides, my right hand went numb, I couldn't talk, I lost a little bit of my hearing out of my right ear, and I still can't walk like before. It has been almost 10 years since my accient, THANKS TO GOD I still alive and thinking pretty well. Take care.