30 Years Beyond that Crazy Elephant

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On this day in 1991, my life changed forever. I lived in the Sonoran Desert, Colorado Desert section, Palm Desert, California, 27 years. The next city to the west, Rancho Mirage, has a landmark, the Rancho Super Car Wash sign. On that day, 7/29/91, I was riding an old family BMW motorcycle from Palm Desert to White Water, but only made it part way through Rancho Mirage. A lady made an illegal left turn from the car wash onto east Hwy 111. I was traveling west at 55 MPH and not wearing a helmet, t-boned the car and flew 100 feet through the air landing on my unprotected head. I went into a coma and transported to Desert Hospital in Palm Springs were I had brain surgery. The doctors did not expect me to survive beyond midnight, but after a 90 day coma and three decades of living with TBI, here I am…