Giving ThinkFirst or the brain injury prevention associations money so we can reach out to help more public schools and schools in general would be great.
When I got hit, I was one kilometre away from home. I was on my bicycle. I was hit from behind by an SUV going 98 kilometres an hour. That pretty much caused my head to go right into the windshield. I ended up in CHEO with traumatic brain injury and all those other fun things.
Ever since then, with the side effects, the effects of it, the accident's changed everything. Since I got hit, all my friends, since we live out in the countryside, where everyone does aggressive four-wheeling, they don't want me to hang around. If I get hit, it's on them, so they say, “It's better just to take him out of the equation”, so nothing like that. I'm basically not allowed to do anything, anyway, because if I do get hit in the head again I could wind up back in a coma or in the hospital with worse.
It has caused me to do therapies for the past five and a half years. I'm still doing them. I'm on medications. I'm always doing neurology tests. I did some in October for a couple of days every two weeks.