How to break your neck in FIVE STEPS ?

1. Go on a weekend getaway with 15 of your friends;
2. Have a great great time;
3. On your way back, stand in the bus without any support (because no one taught you about "Laws of Motion") ;
4. Make sure you are not holding on to anything for support;
5. Wait for an asshole to overtake from the wrong side in order for the driver to stop the bus with a jerk

and

 BAM! That's how you end up staring at the ceiling for the next 3-6 months.

Till a few weeks ago, I don't think I knew we had three different kinds of names for the bones in the spine and now I am somewhat of an expert on at least C1 & C2.

So I have what they call "The Hangman's Fracture".
Death by hanging was intended to be quick, the drop and jerk were designed to dislocate C1 & C2, air can no longer move in an and out of the lungs. Death occurs within minutes. 

How's that for a dramatic sounding injury.

I saw pretty much every kind of star in that split second that I hit the bus door, the adrenaline kicked in and had me going from one hospital to another.

About 3 hours later,I walked in to the hospital  demanding to be shown to the washroom while my doctor ran behind me screaming “why is the patient not on the stretcher!?” After the bladder relieving ritual, I lied down on a bed where I spent the next few painful hours getting X-rays, MRIs & CT scans. This bed would be my world for the next 9 days.

All in a day's time