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I woke up that morning say goodbye to
Laurel opened up our son's room and
chucked it in on our two-year-old he was
sound asleep
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and had a cup of coffee so I jumped in
the truck and drove to Everett
Washington
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the weather was bad and I was the first
one there we have got our rigging all
set up and went to the supervisors they
went up and checked all our safety lines
and gave us the okay to start power
washing
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towards the end of the day we got to a
location of 30 feet so it was my idea
and say hey let's pick it up and set it
on the inside of the handrail I was tied
on to the time
I unhook my lanyard hooked it back to
myself and my coworker put his hands up
and said no
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who climbed upon a handrail
and then something odd happened
I was thrown back about ten feet and
down 30 feet the hard hat came off
safety glasses came off and I'm still
almost in a panic and at that point I
was completely lost I didn't know which
way was up and I landed on the back of
my head first
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so I tried to take a little breath and I
couldn't breathe
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and they're not the pain went away they
got warm it was peaceful I don't know
what you call that transition but I was
okay with it but what I was okay
and then while I was in that transition
I felt somebody touched me and a tiny
tiny breath finally came and it was my
co-worker who'd run down the three
flights of stairs and then he went down
and got held it was Friday night it was
about five o'clock about time to go home
and my supervisor came to me and she
said do you have phone call nobody wants
to get that phone call
nobody nobody wants to make that phone
call all they could tell me was that my
husband had been in a serious accident
and that I had to get to the hospital
right away
so to me my tears and and the rain on
the windshield I don't know really how I
made it I don't know how long it took I
just kept thinking how did I tell her
son his daddy's not coming home it's not
worth it don't understand how many
people are affected and how deeply
they're affected when you have an
accident it's being unsafe is just
selfish
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it's not worth it
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