CBC Radio Specials51:19Against the Odds
This First Person article is the experience of Allan Boss, a CBC producer who lives in Okotoks, Alta. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ.
Before the first hospital came the rolling of the Toyota Land Cruiser and my body being thrown into the ditch with a thud. I sustained a traumatic brain injury. I was 24. Doctors told my family I could die. If I recovered, they said, it would likely be at about a six-year-old’s level of development.
In the first two hospitals — one in Enderby, B.C., where the accident happened and next a better facility about 100 kilometres
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