Do You See The Fire Damage

Fire damage is a phrase strange to me until it hit me.

Not too long ago, I was afraid to look in the mirror. Before my tragic fire damage incident, I liked to look in the mirror, comb my hair and do my make-up everyday. After the tragic incident, I took all of those mirrors down. I did not have a single mirror in my house because the long cold truth was that I was afraid to face myself in those mirrors. The face that I once adored was now the face I am terrified of; it's the face of memories. I would like to share with you what I have gone through in my life, recently. Perhaps it could have been avoided, but then again, certain situations like fire damage are hard to avoid.

When I sleep at night, all I can dream about is that horrible night when I woke up to the smell of smoke and something roaring. You see I opened my eyes to flames. There were flames all around me. I turn to my left, there's flames, I turn to my right, there's flames, in front of me, behind me, it's all flames. I cannot stress to you just how panicked I was. I live by myself, I am not married, do not have kids and do not have pets, although, someday I wish to have all of the above.

As I was panicked and did not know what to do because I was facing one of my worst fears ever, which was being burnt alive, a hand gently grabbed my shoulder. I did not know what to think, I was blinded by the smoke and could not see. At one point, I believe I passed out. When I woke up, I was inside the ambulance but at that time I did not recognize where I was at because I have never been inside an ambulance before. Sure, I have seen the whole ambulance scenario on television but it is different when you are in it.

I woke up to bandages all over my face, arms and legs. I did not know what to say or what to think. Even though, I do not think at the moment I could communicate too well to anyone, so speaking was completely out of the picture. Moments passed and I learnt that I had faced a really bad fire damage and had received the worst burns possible to my arms, face and legs. At that point, I felt as if I did not want to be on earth anymore. Here I was, stuck in a hospital, not able to read or write, I had no means of communication. I was a vegetable. Many people sit there and ponder what they would do if they were a vegetable, I know this because I have done that in my life but no matter how much you ponder, you will never know what you will do until you are in that situation.

Fire damage situations have taken many lives away and at that point when I was in the hospital, I should have been thankful to be alive and I feel selfish for that right now. I never got to meet the guy who rescued me but now I thank him everyday for giving me the life I could have lost. Someone sent me a clipping out of the local paper that came out around the time the fire damage broke out in the house. The headline read "Local Firefighter Loses His Life Saving Someone." As I started to read the clipping, I learn the firefighter had saved a life and sacrificed his. The ironic thing - the address listed was my address.

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