Car crash; huge truck ran a red light and crunched into my side of the car. Seat snapped out of place, and despite the air bags I put my face through the windshield. Paramedics had to cut me out of the vehicle; that's when the real pain hit and I screamed until I passed out. The crash had shoved my leg bone up and through the hip, punching a hole through the socket. I spent days physically restrained while machines pumped air into my collapsed lungs. It took them until the third day to take all the glass out of my face. On day four I suffered a grand mall seizure. Eventual total was 120 stitches, 60 staples, two dozen screws keeping my hip together, and four pins keeping the hip in the socket. I spent the better part of a year learning to walk again, and I'll always have to use a cane. The operation severed a lot of nerves, and I can't feel half the leg of my toes on the foot.