David Farber
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Photographer |
| Location | Carpentersville, Illinois, United States |
| Introduction | On September 8, 1981 my life took a dramatic turn. While riding my motorcycle to the health club after work I was struck by an oncoming car making an improper left turn. It was the one day in seven years of riding that I had forgotten my helmet. My injuries were extensive: a broken back, broken up rib cage, broken collar bone, fractured C6 vertebra in the neck, shattered cheekbone, and the right side of my skull crushed. Though given less than a 10% chance of surviving one night, I was in a deep coma for seven weeks, in a semi-coma for six more weeks, and hospitalized for a total of 50 weeks, I recovered enough to be discharged on August 24, 1982. Since then, I have been a triplegic, able to move only my right arm. Planning trips in detail, and traveling to different places to photograph the beautiful scenery, and all God's creatures, great and small, is really what's kept me going over the years since my accident." |
| Interests | classical music, nature/ wildlife, photography, traveling, musicals |
| Favorite movies | The Ten Commandments, Ben Hur, almost any musical, action flicks |
| Favorite music | classical |
| Favorite books | The Left Behind series, Skipping Christmas, James Herriot series |