I didn't introduce myself or what I'm dealing with.
I'm Julie.
I was the driver and only person injured in a severe car accident on October 10th, 2011. I ran into an oncoming semi on the highway for reasons unknown (I blame the car)


I broke 42 bones including both my femurs, both knees, right ankle, left arm and hand, right wrist, all of my left ribs, left collarbone, left shoulderblade, L1 and L5



Many surgeries were done in the first couple of months.
I had plates on my femurs for over a year and got to a point where they were hindering my progress so we tried removing one from my left leg. The bone snapped during a stress test while I was still under so a rod was placed inside the femur instead. Some months later, we tried taking the plate out of my right leg. All was well for about 2 days, when I leaned forward to pop a zit my femur snapped. I was in traction for about a day then had a rod put into that femur too. My collarbone healed wonky because I had broken my shoulderblade too and there was no way to deal with it at the time. It was messing with my back a lot though so I had it rebroken and set with a plate. I've had multiple surgeries on my left hand and arm, only one little plate left in the wrist.

I'm always in pain. Much worse if the weather is changing or if I'm too active/not active enough or if I'm cold or sick. Basically, most things make it worse, very few things make it better. I KNOW I'll have less pain when I'm stronger but it's so hard to move sometimes. It's been over 7 years but there's still hope. I haven't plateaued, I just lose muscle mass quickly during flare-ups.