Daniel Edington:
CLASS OF 1985
Yuma Union High SchoolClass of 1985
Yuma, AZ
DeVry Institute of TechnologyClass of 1990
Phoenix, AZ
Daniel's Story
I guess I am like most who have signed up for classmates a little curiosity, mid-life Bull-Sh--, and a damn, where did all the time go persona. Plus we are the first generation to have computers a window to the world.
After High School I hung out at a friends house for 2 years drinking, partying and trying to find out the meaning of the ever-elusive life. Then out of nowhere I met the love of my life Noreen Phipps/Gill and she gave my life direction. She is my soul mate. I can think of something during the night like wanting to bug-out and just drop down to Laughlin, Nevada. Without even telling her the car is packed the next morning. (weird but true)
Anyways, we left Yuma a year after we met and where married. I went to DeVry and graduated with honors. Here is where life really does not always let you make the decisions. Went to work for Ford Aerospace just as planned since High School. Fell off a Radar Tower and collapsed my spinal chord.(ouch)Me a rocket scientist is even more painfully amusing.
It gets better though. After multiple surgeries to repair my spine I was paralyzed for nearly 18 months. At that time while laid up, I invented the Pink Floyd Pulse Album, blinking light Patent #5,521,802. Couldn't die without leaving my wife and kids something.
Tied a pit bull "Giga" I had in college around my waste to drag me around the park, while I pissed and moaned trying to get my legs to work. Another 18 months goes by and I am ready to return to work. (longest 18 months of my life)
Here is where it just becomes hysterical. So, days before returning to work as a bench engineer my entire family and I get run down by a 75 year old man driving a Semi School Bus. My nana had just had a s...Expand for more
troke and needed me to pick some things up at Walgreen's, who can say no to a grandma. Couldn't be the little bus had to be a F--kin semi, we where in the nearly brand new VW Golf I had just purchased my wife.
Finally I was thinking this is all beginning to become too surreal. I will not get into the devastation or my daughter who was in a coma for 14 days. Never left her side and got no sleep. We all picked up our shattered lives and went on. Saria, the daughter in the coma is now 19 with a multi-million dollar trust fund and she just bought a house in Phoenix. She turned out fine after years of working with her.(for the most part) Our other daughter Tabatha, the oldest of four daughters was mostly unhurt, she wants and is studying to be a lawyer.
As for Noreen and I we remain in the Prescott area where we moved after settling the accident, patent infringement with Sony Music Entertainment, and bought several homes, cash.
We live up in the mountain range near Prescott on 2 1/4 acres of land with Xarea (pronounced X'Zarea) our ten year old and Juliet Claire our youngest at six years old.
We live comfortably as we own our home. It is all good, I am still here, my family loves me and I have the free time to do what I want. Still wasn't what I expected but still a heck of a ride.(think Ozzy Osborne and Crazy Train)
Oh, and that is only half of it. Been run down by two more drunk drivers and wrecked a motorcycle at 90mph when I hit barb-wire. Up in the mountains it is not like the desert where you can see for 20 miles and nothing on the sand. Plus a lot more wild stuff but who wants to hear all that right now.
Anyways I feel pretty confident I will live a long life because you know what they say, "only the good die young".
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