Rebecca Sexton:  

After High School I went to TVI (don't think it's called that now) and took accounting. I graduated better there than I did in High School. I worked for while at a little place called "Betos" a Mexican Resturant on Central. I married a boy from Sandia High. We had two beautiful girls (Heidi and Heather). He was in the Navy and we moved to National City when our oldest child was about 6 months old. The marriage didn't last very long and when I was almost ready to deliver our second child I moved back to Albuquerque. I had her at the hospital on base there. I lived with my parents for several years. while working at an auction house I had a car accident that caused my oldest daughter (Heidi) to have a closed head injury. She was in a coma for about 6 weeks and was being fed by a nose tube. They had to take out a section of her bone on the left hand side and the forehead part of her skull, so the brain could swell and heal. They were talking about putting her in a institution when she started to wake up from the coma. We were blessed that the length of the coma meant that she didn't have to have the pain of the operations or healing that she would have. After 5 operations and a shunt put in we were able to bring her home. She was 2 1/2 years old and had to learn to crawl, walk, talk, potty train and feed herself all over again. Her baby sister helped with that. Heather was 9 months old at that time and had learned to walk while Heidi was in the hospital. Heidi would watch her and then try to do the same things. We feel that she knew that she was suppose to be able to do all that stuff and it made her try harder. Heidi learned all those things again in about a year. She had to learn to walk with a helment on cause of the missing bone but she was a...Expand for more