These past few days have been tough for me and many of my friends from Galesburg and the surrounding area because two of our friends, Anthony Perez and Leramy Bennett were in a horrible car accident.
Leramy had a concussion and doctors thought that he had a torn esophagus. Luckily, it was a false alarm. When I went to visit them in the hospital, Leramy was doing a lot better and he discharged himself from OSF and we took him with us. Anthony, however wasn't so lucky. His side of the car was hit the worse and ironically, it was a good thing they weren't wearing their seat belts.
If Anthony had then he wouldn't have been thrown to the other side of the car, he would've been stuck by the tree. When i visited Anthony he told me what he remembered, he managed to stay conscious the whole time. He told me that after they hit the tree he remembered his neck hurting extremely bad and that he couldn't move his body at all. Also, that it was hard for him to breathe. It turns out that he broke two vertebrae in his neck and that then pinched a nerve which caused him to be immobile. Fortunately, the doctors at OSF hospital are amazing and Anthony is not paralyzed and they say it'll take a couple months for him to heal.
Even though they were both pretty beat up, they are so lucky to be alive and it makes me way more than happy. I love them both so much in so many ways and I'm very thankful to God for saving them. :)
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