Crash Victim Life Survivor Athanasia Houvarda

This is the last episode of season one and a very special episode. I start the discussion with Ernie Boxal, my guest, and he is sharing his experience of having 3 close calls of being involved in traffic accidents. What we have been saying all along these 15 episodes is that it is better to learn before getting injured and this is exactly the story with Ernie. He was never injured in a road accident although he did come very close on 3 different ocassions. Ernie is a storyteller and you can l...

On a main road at night, Niall Finn, my guest on this episode, was travelling too fast, possibly over the speeding limit when a car came through a stop sign onto the road in front of him. Last minute he managed to swerve around it but his car tipped over and rolled several times. He was thrown out onto the road from the driver's window and was very lucky to have only minor injuries. Scratches and ripped clothes but not any fractures.A few words about Niall. He was born in Africa, grew u...

James January was burned September 1991. He was Branched but not Commissioned, Regular Army, Military Intelligence...a fancy way of saying that he got burned his senior year of college. At age 21, everything he worked for went up in smoke when the vehicle he was driving had some issues, to put it mildly. At one point the braking did not work properly, swerving out of its lane & rather than hit the oncoming car, taking out the family inside, he steered the truck right when it wa...

Join me and my guest Serita Valmond on the 12th episode of season 1 where she will be sharing her experience of being involved in a road accident, 5 years ago, on July 4th. Serita’s active and thriving lifestyle was taken away from her when her car was struck from behind by a drunk driver. After a year of working with many doctors, undergoing traditional therapies, and taking 15 different medications, she was diagnosed with chronic pain and multiple invisible illnesses. Serita was physi...

Dr. Dawn Menge is joining me on this episode to share her personal experiense of being involved in a drunk driver accident, 40 years ago. One of the questions I asked, was what she would do differently if she could, to avoid the accident that left her in traction and in a half body cast for months, and lifelong injuries, on her knees that stole her chance of being a voleeyball player. Her response?She would listen to her instict and not go on that date when she was 16 years of age. Dr. D...

Every year around the world, between 250.000 and 500.000 people suffer a spinal cord injury. Spinal injuries can be caused byfalls, acts of violence,car accidents, medical conditions surgical procedures sports.Here is a fact. The majority of spinal cord injuries are caused by preventable accidents. Number one on this list of causes are car accidents, touching 39.6% of all the spinal cord injuries. Joining me on this episode , is Marjorie Aunos, Ph.D. is a psycho...