After the Collision, I Knew I Couldn’t Stay

 

After the Collision, I Knew I Couldn't Stay by Derek MacDonald

This wasn't the first, second, or even the third time I'd experienced a significant head trauma.

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Five years ago a snowboard collision left me incapacitated for months with a traumatic brain injury.

When I began to resume normal life, I alluded to it in passing on social media but never quite explained the magnitude of that event. I wouldn’t be where I am today had I not gone through that. And, I wouldn’t have been getting paid to stand on a snowboard in Jackson, Wyoming at all had I not taken a few leaps and left turns on the path leading me to that spot.

To understand how I’d come to be living in Wyoming, you first need to understand a few foundational things...

onward.

-dmac