They said to my parents that the neck break was a stable fracture, but the back was completely crushed: the vertebra at L1 was like you'd dropped a peanut, stepped on it, smashed it into thousands of pieces.
Disseram aos meus pais que a fratura  do pescoço era estável, mas que a coluna estava completamente desfeita. A vértebra em L1 parecia um amendoim  que tinha sido deixado cair, pisado, partido em mil pedacinhos.