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crane and smashed across the small of my back. I teetered
on the ledge and then fell forward through a ceiling joist
onto the concrete floor of the unfinished fourth story. The
roof section glanced off the ledge and crashed to the
ground almost forty feet below.
I knew I was seriously injured. The construction
foreman was close by, but I was in a state of shock and he
had to wait for others to arrive before they could get me to
my feet. Waves of dizziness and nausea swept over me as
the men lowered me down an inside ladder to the ground.
I was rushed to a doctor, but his examination did not
determine the extent of my injury. I was only twenty-three
years old, and I felt I ought to be able to return to work.
But I was wrong.
The pain increased and five days later I was back at
the doctor’s office for X-rays and tests. He immediately
admitted me to Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City for a
thorough examination.
There, the doctors tried to explain what had happened.
“Mr. Burdick, many of the muscles and tendons have
been ripped loose in your spinal column. This is causing
extreme pressure on some of the nerves. Our tests show
paralysis in your legs which will grow worse unless we
begin treatment.” The pain was agonizing and I readily
agreed to the treatment.
The next three weeks I lay in traction with heavy
weights attached to my legs. The only time the weights
were removed was when I was taken to therapy where
they treated me with massage, heat, and hot water baths.