A Miracle and Some Cheesecake For Dessert

My name is Mei Chow and I'm writing you about how my fiancé Donald Barker and I met. On September 7, 2002 he was hit by a drunk driver and broke both his femurs in his legs, fractured his hip, left elbow, separated his shoulder, sustained a traumatic brain injury and was in a coma for 12 days. He was pronounced dead at the scene. He lost half of his body's blood (he was also anemic). His mom was called to the hospital to identify his body...they gave him 72 hours to live. By the miracle of God, he survived and woke up so fast he began to choke on the tube that was giving him life. He was sent to the physical therapy office I JUST started working at in November 2002. He came hobbling in on crutches with his dad. He looked very upset and I was a little intimidated by him - him being handsome never crossed my mind at the moment. He was mad because before the accident he was about to head over seas and play basketball. When he began to progress from crutches to a cane I baked him a cheese cake and left a little note saying how happy I was for him and I hope he continues to excel. From what I was told he was very happy and protected the cheese cake like it was a bag full of money and he walked out of the physical therapy office with the cheesiest smile. He tells me that it took a lot of courage for him to finally ask me out to a movie; he started therapy in November of 02 and our first date was on Feb. 14th 03. We didn't plan it to be that day, that was just the next Friday. Our first date was pretty funny; I picked him up at his mom's house in my Hond Del Sol - keep in mind he is 6'2" 200 lbs and he just got into a car accident that had altered his life completely - and we went to the movie theatre. I told him to buy the tickets online so that we didn't have to wait in line...he didn't not thinking that it was Valentine's Day. Every movie was sold out and all restaurants had a 2 hour wait. He felt so bad, but I wasn't mad I found it a little amusing (I was right and he was wrong). I took him home and he says he thought he would never hear from me again...two weeks later he made it up to me by taking to me to see Lord of the rings the 2 towers and dinner at red robin...I remember him staring at me the whole time I was eating. He said he wanted to know if I was really going to eat or I was going to be shy and order a salad...which I didn't - I ordered the mushroom burger w/ fries (I was hungry) I probably ate more then he did. I feel that our story is unique...if he hadn't gotten into that horrid car accident and I didn't stay in Washington State (I was going to go to NY) and gotten that job at the hospital we would have never met. I think we've been through our "worse" and now we're planning for our "better" - he proposed on June 11th of this year and our wedding date is set for March 10th of next year...there is just so much more to the story but I know you all have thousands of emails to read so I'll let you all get to them.

 

 

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