Andrew Holmes
Hello my name is Andrew Holmes. On October 20, 2003 I was
involved in a single car accident while attempting to
travel from my home town of Monroe, La down the hwy to
Grambling State where I was enrolled in
school. What really caused the accident still
remains unknown. Did I fall to sleep at the wheel? Did
something run out into the road? Was I having car
problems? I don't know. I only recall awakening in the
Hospital wondering where am I and how did I get here. The
most hurting part of that was finding out what happened
and hearing things in which I could and couldn't do. I
can't tell you what it is like to not be able to talk,
but no one hears you. You feel like people are tripping
playing games, but you find out that you really have no
voice due to this breathing tube that's down your throat.
You wanna get up, but you can't feel your legs. Then they
tell you you can't walk. Looking at the scars and seeing
how they done stuck tubes all over my body. I wanted to
fight!!! But I couldn't move or even talk to tell them
what I thought about them. So I finally got out the
hospital and went home. Once stabled, I started
rehab. After I got into the program, they started wanting
me to find goals and dreams. A guy asked me Drew, where
do you see yourself five years from now and I told him,
back on the field playing ball. The guys words with his
reply really hurt me, he said Drew people don't get out
of wheelchairs therefore you need to stop dreaming and
find something else to do with your life. I went home and
cried praying God will I ever walk. I dreamed
that night of walking, running, and rejoicing. After time
started to past me by, I ask God again why ain't I
walking? So then I got down on my self and started
crying, fasting, sleeping on my knees on the floor, and
just everything I could think of. I begun to beat myself
because I felt it was me. Finally I started to reach out
for answers and help and that's when I found Mr. Weber's
program. That was all the way back in 2004. I know that
God has blessed me with the answer that I was in seek.
How do I get there? I called banks, credit unions, state
representatives, city mayors, contacting professional
ball players and coachs, and even tried Income Tax's.
This has been the hardest thing to get finical help with
I tell you. Finally after crying, praying, and fighting I
begin to get weak. I just can't do this any more I felt.
The next morning my mother awakens with a dream. I know
what we can do she tells me. We begun to reach out
to our community, schools, and Church's. Money
starts coming in and I don't have words to say thank
you enough. Ms. Kim with hope, Premier, Mary Gross,
my Loving mother, Dee-Dee, the Holmes and Price family,
Weber and friends, Carroll High School, and everyone who
prayed Thank You. This has been a five year journey and
for three of those years I've tried to get here. I've
just watch this kid who flipped off a mountain left his
leg with nothing on it. Doctors said impossible! The guy
beside him is doing leg presses with 230pds and
wasn't suppose to walk either!!! Today I made my first
movement (Oct. 18,2007) on the floor crawling and I can't
tell you how good it feels. Once again thank you guys and
even the person that is reading this right now. I hope
that it motivates you in your believeth to say
even more "yes I can" Never let anyone tell you
whats impossible. All things are possible to you that
believe
Most of All I Thank God