Donny Winn | Before & After Pictures
These are my before and after pictures May 20th of 2008 – August 6th of 2008
My Dad and I go to the gym 3 days a week just so I can get back the strength that I once had and the strength I need to be able to walk without a walker. I never though from being in a coma for 2 weeks can put such tole on your body as much as it did to mine! I guess I watch to much movies and didn’t pay attention to reality much, for the reason I really thought that when someone wakes up from a coma that they just get up and walk I still to this day, I remember the first muscle that I had to work on was trying to open my eyes, I know that sounds a little bit strange but that was pretty annoying for the reason I couldn’t keep my eyes open and everyone keeps telling me to open my eyes! But it almost feels like when you are super tired and its impossible to keep your eyes open. Well that’s basically what it felt like. Well back to these pictures. I have to thank my nutritionists /trainer, Angie because if it wasn’t for her and my Dad’s support at the gym I would not be as far as I am right now.
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Hey Donny,
LOVE the new site!!! Keep up the buffness!!
Lookin’ good!
Donny are you ready to go to the gym 5 days a week? We are so proud of you. I know you were dissapointed
when your Surgery was re-scheduled. Your decision to go to the gym more to get stronger before your surgery. You Amaze me everyday, your determination you have will get you what ever you want in life.
I Love You..
Donny and family, I just found your blog and have read some of it! My grandson Tyler was in a motorcycle accident with his dad! Bob (dad) is now a quadraplegic and Tyler has a TBI! My daughter cares for both in her home! Tyler was only 10 at the time and is now 18 and just graduated from H.S. It has been such a struggle with Tyler and Dad I just don’t know how she does it!
My problems are trying to find people and friends for Tyler! He still has seizures so he can’t drive! All of his friends left him after the accident! He had to go to a different school to finish H.S so he didn’t make friends there! He can’t find anything to do that he likes or anyone to talk to! He would like to find friends and maybe even eventually a girlfriend and live as normal a life as possible! He is ambulatory with a limp and left side and arm weakness!
Man Donny! i have been wanting to join this TBI support group for a long time. I didnt really read ALLof your site. I jaust wanted to open the lines of communication with someone who has experienced what i have. i WILL go back and read every word though. i was involved in a car accident about 3 years ago. My boyfriend was driving. we had been drinking. no more than usual really. there were no other cars involved, just us. we rolled a camaro in a ditch and were both lifeflighted to the er here in columbus ohio. its suppose to be the best tauma center in the state. my b.f is fine for the most part, i mean he did go back to work the same week. i remained in a coma for 21 days. donny, those comas are nooooo joke! i fractured my 1st 2 vertebrae in my neck. the docs say i could have easily been paralyzed. but they say alot of things donny. like….i could have died…etc. but not being able to move my head for however long it was that i had to wear that brace….that screws your muscles ALL up!!! i went thru abt 2 years of physical therapy nad i STILL dont have full range of motion. it sux! i still cant drive. well, i could if i had to, or wanted to, which i DO want to! but i have been thru so much $hit donny, i have forgotten 10 times more than i have rememberd. and that has been by choice. i was iin the hospital for abt 6 weeks, a wheelchair for about 2 months, a walker for….i dont remember how long. i HATED ALL of it. but now im walking, just a little slower. my friends fondly refer to it as “th OZZY shuffle!” their a trip. but my equilibrium is kinda messed up. i dont have dizzy spells anymore, but im always kinda dizzy. my arms and shoulders are fd. i still have difficulty blowing my hair dry. i can reach, i just cant hold my arms up like that for long. other than that, i dunno. oh yeah, well theres the OBVIOUS “defect” as i refer to them. i have a hard time controlling my emotions! now ive always been an emotionally driven person. but now i can burst into freakin sobs at a tv commercial! its ridiculuos! its over just as fast as it comes over me, but yeah, thats a tough one to explain to people! ppl dont understand! our troops are bringing alot of awareness to TBIs. since so many are sustining them during all that madness! i saw where they did some benefit fight on the..cage fighter stuff. hey at least they are raising awareness! and thats what i would like to see happen. donny i never even heard of a tbi until 3 years ago. it was oct of 2006. okay man im outta here. just wanted to start up some kinda …corespondance! ttyl.
Donny, what are your tattoos? im inked too, a little.i read nancys respnse and it tears me up inside! we gotta raise ppls awareness and perhaps their compassion will increase. ive never felt so isolated! i was always popular, in school, at work, i had ALOT of friends! i still have a few. but like i said….ppl dont really get it! it just adds to the frustration and humiliation of it! see, i know thats wrong to feel tat way! but i say what i feel! but my heart goes out to nancy. thats her baby grandson! all she wants is for him just to have a normal chance at life!!! i feel soooooooo bad! i wish there was SOMETHING i could do!