Doyle Durham:  

Life Hello My Friends! Thank you for stopping to visit. Graduation seems so long ago but Jon McMullen's words ring true: "...this IS the Real World we live in..."! After Graduation, I spent no time getting out of the Portland area & Attended ITT Technical Institute in Phoenix, AZ for a Broadcast-Communications Degree. Returning to Portland, I went to work with a local Night Club as a Deejay while working full time in St. Vincent Hospital's Radiology Department. In 1990, I enlisted with the USAF, which introduced me to new cultures & areas of this world. It's amazing how little we know, until we actually experience the situation first-hand! I was stationed at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama with the 42nd Medical Group's Hospital Services Command Section. Air Force Life was a great fit for me and allowed me the opportunity to really live! I was married in 1993 and everything seemed to be perfect & the way life should be. I followed my passion for cars, collecting a vast array of classic muscle cars & 4x4 trucks. I have also raced on the amateur circuit, both Drag-Racing and on some of the finest NASCAR/SCCA tracks in the Deep Southern States. However, this would be my undoing... The last 10 years have been a blur for me and it's hard to believe so much has happened. On November 5th, 1996 I got hit by a Top-Fuel Dragster at the NHRA Drag strip in Montgomery, Alabama. The accident shattered my right leg, crushed my skull & put me in a coma for 3-weeks. I Lived life in a wheel-chair for the next year, going through rehab to re-learn how to walk. Once I regained the ability to walk without aid, the...Expand for more