The rehab unit is where I started having an idea of what my life could look like going forward. Once my open wounds healed I moved to the rehab unit. I was in the intensive care unit from early May to the middle of July before I moved to a unit called “the floor,” where my open wounds could heal. Now, they weren’t sure if I was going to survive the weekend. I remember having simple thoughts like, when will I get to drink a Gatorade again? Doctors believed I would have walked away from the hospital in around eight weeks if I had not been burned. I wondered how I was going to make it through my healing process, but my immediate concerns revolved around the massive discomfort of hardly being able to eat or drink. I had skin grafts starting at my feet and legs, then up to my arms and torso, followed by my neck and parts of my face. The first time I discovered what happened was when I woke up from a medically-induced coma three weeks after my accident. IN MAY 2016, I experienced a life-threatening car accident that burned 75 percent of my body. Read all of the stories here.īelow, Joey Coco, 26, shares the first steps he took to get back in the gym and regain his confidence after surviving a near-fatal car accident that left most of his body burned. This story is part of our ongoing “First Steps” series, where we share extraordinary stories of men who transformed their bodies, minds, and lives with a focus on the first steps it took them to get there (because, after all, nothing can change without a first step!).
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