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When I was 9 my family was in a horrible car accident. I was hurt the worst of everyone, but all my injuries were internal and I was in shock so it didn't specifically look like I was hurt badly. Cue many doctors and medical staff deciding to simply not check if I was hurt at all. I got sent home the next day, but it turns out my intestines had been severed by the seatbelt and had also damaged my spine from the impact. I mean, imagine getting hit in the belly so hard that it actually impacts your spine. I was told later that if it had fully broken my spine that I would've been completely cut in half(not totally sure I believe that, but eh). Anyways, I couldn't eat, drink, or sleep because of that. I was in constant extreme pain and even after repeated trips back to the hospital, they still didn't actually check if anything was wrong. This went one for nearly a week, by this time I was wishing for death. I couldn't think straight and was mostly out of it. One final trip to the hospital and they recognized I was at death's door. This time they figured out what the problem was, I had gangrene from my dead rotting guts that had been festering for a week... So emergency surgery to remove a bunch of my guts, and I was on the road to recovery. I was told that I wouldn't have survived the night, that it was literally on the verge of being too late to save me. I also had to go through physical therapy afterwards due to my back injury.

I still have very painful problems from that. About once or twice a month, my guts cramp up just like they felt back then. I'd definitely rate it 10/10 on the pain scale. I hate it so much, it basically paralyzes me and sometimes I think I'm dying from it still.