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The full story is that in August of 2004 I was driving down a small street in Yorba Linda that was lined with eucalyptus trees going about 35 mph. I started to drift to the right and when I tried to correct nothing happened. By this time I my front right tire went off the side of the road into some gravel. When this happened the van swerved even more and when I hit the brakes the van just slid. I had just left a customers house and had not put on my seatbelt yet. I saw the tree coming so I grabbed the steering wheel with both hands and put both feet on the brakes and braced for impact. When the van hit the tree I hit my face on the steering wheel and then about 1/4 of a second later I was shoved with great force into the steering wheel a second time which had much more force than the first impact. I came to find that my water tank which is mounted in the back of the van and had 200lbs of water in it had come loose and become a missile aimed it me. I tried to push the seat back and get out of the van but was unable to move no matter how hard I tried. I looked down at my legs and saw that it was very obvious my right femur was broken. Luckily the bone didn't go through the skin but I did have a second knee on my right leg. It was at this time that I found out just how painful it was to break the largest bone in my body. I was stuck in the van halfway in and halfway out of the window. I could not move because when I tried to sit down my leg would hurt even more and I was afraid of doing more damage to the tissue around it. I was supporting myself like this for what seemed like about 20 minutes until the paramedics got there. They got me out and after giving me morphine, reset the leg there on the spot. It seemed to me like the morphine didn't help with the pain at all and by the time I got to the hospital they had given me s total of 20mg which I understand to be a lot. After the doctors stitched and stapled all the holes I had they took more x-rays than I can count, then they sent me to get a ct scan of pretty much my whole body. They informed me that I had what appeared to be a hairline fracture in my neck. They asked if I had any pain in my neck and I told them it felt better than before the accident. Kind of funny my neck has been bothering me for years and when I break it, it is fine. Because of the lack of pain, the doctor suspected it was not broken so they proceeded to send me to my room to wait for the surgery to put a titanium rod in my leg. They cut a hole in my knee and put the rod through the center of my leg from my knee to my hip. I did not need a cast because the rod is what is supporting the bone and it will stay in for the rest of my life. After 3 days in the hospital they discharged me and that night when I got home, I got a call from Pat telling me she had fallen down a flight of stairs and broken her wrist.