When a stranger helped me after I almost drowned

Describe a random encounter with a stranger that stuck out positively to you.

I was cruising around in my track chair at this gravel corey with one of my old caregivers. If you don’t know what a track chair is it’s a power wheelchair with tracks on it like an army tank. They’re designed for people that are wheelchair bound to get out and go more places and have more freedom. Places their regular wheelchair won’t go.

I was driving along and everything was going great. You just stopped to talk to this guy that was out walking with his son as he was amused by my chair. We were on this path and it started to go downhill slightly. All of a sudden I hear a loud click noise and suddenly my chair turns hard left and I start shooting straight down a really steep hill. That’s all fine and dandy except I’m a quadriplegic and I’m all harnessed up and tight into this chair and at the bottom of this hill is a big deep pond.

I’m doing everything I can to get this chair to stop and it won’t. All the way down the hill I’m just imagining the water all the way up over my head seeing bubbles cross in front of my face. Somehow by the grace of God the chair stopped when the water got up to my chest.

I was able to remain calm as my caregiver was absolutely losing it. Trying to holler for somebody clear on the other side of the gravel quarry. I managed to get her attention and calm her down. I told her to go get that guy we had just talked to.

He came over to me and I explained to him how to unstrap me. I had to tell him to get my phone out of my lap as it was underwater and I needed it. Once he successfully unstrapped me from my harness, he picked me up and carried me all the way up this hill. He stuck around until my ex-wife got there with my other wheelchair and even thanked me for teaching his son a valuable lesson about being calm in a stressful situation.

So how’s that for a random encounter that stuck out positively? Let me know in the comments. Thanks for viewing and have a wonderful day! If donkeydidit… You can too!