Abdul Nevarez was a Journeyman Sheetmetal worker in San Francisco, heading home from work. He was minutes from arriving home on his motorcycle when a car swerved into his lane and caused him to crash into a pedestrian pole, where he was wrapped around it with his right leg behind his head.
The car never stopped.
He was airlifted to a hospital 30 miles away and immediately taken into surgery to save his life. He endured multiple surgeries for his injuries: compound fracture of left humerus, causing brachial plexus, torn bladder, & comminuted pelvis. His right arm thankfully was unscathed, but his left arm & leg had severe nerve damage.
On the 23rd, Abdul went into surgery for compartment syndrome below his knee to save his leg. The upper leg was dead on the 24th, so they amputated his right leg above the knee in order to save his life.
Abdul lost more than 100 units of blood; no other living person received that much blood in the hospital's history and survived. He was in the ICU for the next 10 days, recovered in the hospital for 6 weeks, & came home just in time for Christmas!
Since then, Abdul makes lemonade with the lemons life serves him!