Heather Cornwell:  

Hello my name is Heather Ann Hess-Cornwell, about 4 years ago, at the age of 42, I was living by myself in Waupaca, Wi, after 14 years of marriage, was now divorced and living with my 2 cats. On one of the coldest winter nights in Wisconsin’s winter that year, for some reason I was outside and slipped and fell on the ice. I guess I landed on the back of my head. I do not remember how long I laid outside, later I was to learn it was long enough to frostbite all my fingers. The next day, Sunday, my parents had gotten worried about me because they could not reach me by telephone. They came over and realized something had happened to me because my hands and knees were all bloody. That due to crawling to my apartment the night before after falling. So they took me to the Emergency Room in Stevens Point, WI. Where the last thing I remember was the doctor cutting off the rings on my fingers. When I asked why she replied that “your fingers are frostbitten”. I understand I was in ICU for a day and then in the hospital for a month, on a feeding tube and incontinent of both bowel and bladder. I had to learn how to walk and talk and swallow. I learned that I had a brain stem injury and all my fingertips had turned black from frostbite, After the...Expand for more