* Assessment 1 - Change

It was the best time of my life. I was in love and engaged, I had a great job and my life was beginning to start a new period - until the accident.
After a friend’s birthday party I was driving home when something happened and I can’t explain what it was. I lost control of my car and it went off the road into a tree. I don’t remember anything after that but I must have suffered serious injuries because I woke up in hospital. When the doctor told me the diagnosis I was shocked. I couldn’t believe it; how would I be able to manage my life from a wheelchair? I didn’t understand why destiny was punishing me so hard.
Tom, my fiancé at the time had always been there for me, he never gave up and cheered me up all the time. Just two days before the tragic accident happened, he had proposed to me and we were planning the wedding. But now, what would our future be like? I was insecure and afraid but Tom never went away.
Just one year after all that, he proposed to me again and we decided to marry as soon as possible.
Now 30 years later when I’m thinking about this time it’s still hard but I can’t and I won’t imagine how my life could be different because of the great life I have had with two beautiful, healthy children, and to become paraplegic was just a station in my life and not the end.