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Here's Hayden. I'm on. pediatric dentist so I went to Couple of extra years, two extra years of training after dental school. And um And then I went through the whole Board certification and stuff like that.
So I'm board certified. I grew up in. Little small town, little small farm town called Hollandale, Mississippi, over in the Delta. One of my earliest memories was My dad, there's an old cemetery on Lake Washington outside of Glen Island where we I pretty much grew up. out there my my grandparents owned a lot of farmland around there and so we were on Lake Washington my My dad's aunts.
Both lived on like washington his Mother died. Dear and Charlburn.
So his aunts. Basically, they raised him, and so they lived out there, and so he took care of them as he got older. But When I was like... Maybe like 18 months old. His father died.
And I remember I've probably like two and a half or three, but being at the cemetery and Yeah. throwing a ball or something like that and and then him hugging me and crying. And I've That was probably like math. Probably the earliest memory. My mom was kind of the disciplinarian.
She's very, very. Tough. We didn't have like big family discussions and things like that but we were close enough to where, you know, if we were having a problem, you know, we could my parents were just working and busy and But Certainly later in life, you know, after I got hurt and things like that, that definitely. Help. me open up to them a lot more.
you know, about things. I was um almost 15 years old. It was uh November Night. 1991. I'm just Fitting in the living room or something and my best friend Jessica Sullivan, she had this.
Little mutt dog name rascal. And it didn't have any hair. I mean, it was just, I mean, it probably should have been put down. years before. All this happened, but...
Her dad was a farmer and he found it running around the farm one day and brought it home. One problem it has it had seizures all the time. And so she called on me crying, freaking out. Rascals have enough. Caesar, can you take me to To the dad.
Yeah, I'll come get you.
So. She didn't have her license yet.
So I went and got her and Dropped her off when we went to the vet and then her boyfriend His name was Duke McCory. Dropped her off at her boyfriend's house. I headed home and I stopped. and wayside Got some gas and some chips or something, and that's I think that's what I remember. I didn't put my seat up on.
And I was driving a Mitsubishi Montero. It was kind of a newer. Vehicle, kind of the new thing Mitsubishi was putting out. It was an SUV, but they were real tall and boxy. It was a kind of overcast, real windy.
I got about. four or five miles down the road and I think I've I reached down to change the radio station or something and Mm-hmm. Big gust of wind hit me and blew me off the road. And when I Tried them. Come back on.
There was a big lip. when I try to come back home. And they think the like the front tire blew out or it just caught and so I just turned sideways and and just started flipping. And I've Went out the windshield. Bounced down the road a couple hundred yards and ended up in A ditch.
It was a vehicle coming. towards me that stopped. And then Maybe just by some miracle there was a sheriff. About two miles behind me. and he started out as an EMT.
And so when they found me, I was in the ditch. I was completely, my body was completely contorted and twisted.
So, and I wouldn't breathe in because my diaphragm, I mean, you can't. Raised like that. And he knew the... He told the other guy to grab my legs and He grabbed my shoulders and they just, you know, they just... wrenched me back and as soon as they did I They said, you know, start breathing and I kind of came to and And I was kind of in and out, you know, laying there.
But I didn't I did remember sitting up. You know, and then realizing You know, I'm trying to just get up. and realizing you know I couldn't move my legs and so I just laid back down. They ended up taking me to to the hospital and Green boom and then Transport me though. Jackson.
You know, you go through a denial. stage for a while and You know, the doctors don't wanna Don't want to tell you, you know, it's 100%, it's permanent, it's, you know, you're never going to walk again. You know, so they always try to give you some good things And there are people that get hurt and six months after and a year after, you know, they start getting you know, movement and all that kind of stuff. But so there was always that. That hope, that pray, like, please let me start feeling, let me start walking.
You know, it was a couple of probably a couple of years before I gave up on that. It was tough in the sense that, you know, you're you're fifteen. I think I was more embarrassed. About being in a wheelchair. I mean, I remember my parents taking me back to school.
You know, that my first day going back to school. It was just... It was just tough. And you can only imagine what that must be like and We love telling these stories because you hear them. Right from the person themselves, and I know Hayden, he's my daughter's dentist, and he doesn't know it, but.
The guy's one of my heroes, the way he's... lived his life. When we come back We'll continue with Hayden Perkins' story. after these messages. This is our American story.
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We left off with Hayden telling us about his car accident. that had led him to his life. without the use of his legs. We return to The Hayden. You know, you're fifteen and you're Dating girls, and that part was kind of hard in the beginning, I guess.
Now, you know, my support base was awesome. My friends were awesome. The school, everybody, I mean, you know, my friends never. You know. Skip the beat.
They Didn't Allow me to Not be involved and you know, not do things. I mean, they'd just grab me and pick me up and. Throw me in the boat, you know, if we're going hunting and You know, that was a big help. Because it was just, you know, that first year or two, probably my freshman and sophomore year were. Um, you know, I just had a tough time, but something.
I guess just kind of clicked and Uh Basically, it was like, you know what, you can. Sit around. Feeling sorry for yourself and Wishing, you know, what have been, you know, what could have been, and whatever. Ethan Move on and make the best of it. I kind of did and I never looked back really.
A lot of people Can't get over it, can't get past things like that. I was just able to and I have people Ask me all the time, you know, I guess. pin around about well if you could change things what it would be and honestly i i wouldn't I wouldn't go back and change it. It just I think it Kind of makes me Made me who I am. It's who I am.
I'm. Yeah, Aiden Perkins. I'm the guy on the wheelchair. I mean, it just, I just, and I don't. I can't tell you the last time I thought about it.
I mean, it's just. the part of me. You know, I might if I'm rolling around, I get You know, my front wheel gets stuck on a rug or something, and I, you know, I kind of fall for it or something. You know, I'm like, cuss and throw the rug around, but I don't. I don't think.
You know, God, if it wasn't for the stupid wheelchair, if I wasn't in this wheelchair, I mean, that never. Comes into play. It's just a part of me. I don't see. It's like when I'm.
When I see somebody else in a wheelchair, I think that person's in a wheelchair, but I don't, it, I never, I never. Yeah. I never. Never see myself in a wheelchair. I don't wanna it's hard to kinda hard to explain.
You know, like going back to, you know, if I could go back and change things, I wouldn't. I mean, I think it was. part of what was supposed to. Happened. You know, I was.
I didn't make good, didn't really care about my grades, and you know, I was. you know, kind of the athlete and got most handsome and you know had the pretty girlfriend and I don't think I was headed to a path to where I would be right now. If it would not happen, I'm 100% convinced on it. I don't know where I'd be, but. Um I know that for sure.
And It made me. I think the whole injury and all of it Help to make me uh I guess maybe a fighter. I don't give up on things, I don't take no friend. If I get my head around something now, you know, I'm pretty darn determined. When I was in Starting.
college, you know, I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do and Yeah, I don't even remember who said it was like, well, you know, computer science and all that stuff was just kind of. getting rubbed up and you could You know, make a lot of money, you know, and you know, you can sit there, you can sit at a desk. You work on computers, it's perfect, and they make a lot of money. I was like, okay.
So I started out in computer science. And I took my first calculus class and computer programming class and I was like, yeah, no. And then I had a I was home for something and I had a Dental appointment. With my dentist in Grambling. You know, we got to talk in.
I we d I don't think we talked about me being a dentist, but That was when I decided, you know what, this would It's right in my alley. I like hanging around people and taking care of people and at dentists pretty much sit down all day long.
So I I'm gonna do that. And so I started, you know, I changed my major and I had to really work hard, really had to study hard. And I had people, well, my parents even, well, I mean, you know, you need to. Have a backup plan. You know, what if you don't get in?
And I there was no backup plan. Uh, that's what I was gonna do and I was I I was gonna get it. It was summer break, so I was home for the summer. My friend Jessica Sullivan. She, you know, always had a bunch of girls.
One of them was Jessica. Jessica word at the time. Anyway, and we had nobody had ever met her before. And I remember coming out, and she had this little green dress on, and everybody was, and of course, you know, we're guys, we're all in the car, you know, golly, who's that? I don't know, I guess we kinda hit off that night and We ended up starting dating almost immediately after that.
You know, I knew. There were probably a l a lot of people. in college that Me being in a wheelchair. Kara would have been an you know, a problem. Would have been a an issue, you know, for dating or Marianne or I don't think she ever saw it either.
She'd never allow me to use it. you know, as an excuse or I don't ever remember it even coming up and talking about it.
So we got married in May. of nineteen ninety Five. 1995.
So I was a. I was a junior. She was a. senior so I was studying Ecology One night, Right, 'cause I had changed my major though. biology and pre-med and so We were studying and she calls me and says, You you know, I I think I might be pregnant.
And I was like What? And I was like I just remember being like Okay. All right. Not irritated. Not irritated that.
She was She was saying that she was pregnant, but I was like, she's not pregnant. And I'm irritated. I got to stop studying. I got to go to Walmart and get a pregnancy test and go over to her house. Went in Walmart, you know, and I'm, you know, of course, I don't know what I'm doing.
I'm like on that aisle looking and saying, so I get a pregnancy test. And I go over and I'm I'd gotten out of a little chair, I was sitting on my couch. She, you know, goes to the bathroom, comes back and when she hands it to me and it Has a Plus on it. And I remember us It was the weirdest. I don't know, just a a spontaneous response.
We both just started dying out laughing. We just laughed hysterically. And then and then it kinda hit us. All right, what are we going to do? You know, there were a lot of stages in my life that got me kind of to where I am, and that was kind of.
That was probably the the next. big one that really lit a fire under me and catapulted me. Yeah. Totally. do even study even harder and do even better.
Because it was It was kind of real then. And it... Yeah, we matured us probably. We grew up ribba fast. I think they were just Kana.
Wake-up calls, being in a wheelchair or when I got hurt. And then, of course, you know. Yeah, getting told that you're About to have a newborn. baby and you're not not married and and you're you know you're and college and it kind of changes things. you know, I think and we think back on it now and You know, I'm just like, I don't know how to.
Yeah, we did it. But we did. And I think when you're younger like that, you just... It's just different. Like, if I had to go back and do it all now at my age, I just there's I couldn't do it.
But you're just kind of in. survival mode trying to get to the Trying to get to that next step. You know, when I got in dental school, I mean, she... Got tried in again. Yeah.
freshman year of dental school we had twins. You know, a lot of people would say, you know, God, how in the Heck did you do? Don't school him. And You know, you had a two year old and Twin. newborns and We just did it.
And it's life, we were just, man. working every day. Jessica was working and I was basically had a full-time job with dental school and And he just made time for the family when he could and And looking back on it, it was fine. It was not that... I didn't.
I guess it didn't seem that bad. And my goodness, what storytelling and what a voice. He talked about the fact that he could sit around feeling sorry for himself, wishing what might have been or. You can get on with things. When we come back.
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He's a pediatric dentist, despite all the odds against him. Back to hidden. You can't beat him. a victim. You know, I I that We See that?
a lot these days. And, you know, there's always a excuse that I can't do something or because of this or No, whether it's you know, an injury or something that's gender-based or race base or you know anything like that you know it's just You can Do anything. You put your mind to, you want to. And I've raised I've raised the boys that way and pushed them, pushed them, pushed them. I don't try to be, but I think I'm probably a pretty good example of You can do whatever.
you want to do. Um, you know, I had people. Tell me getting into dental school. I mean, I was at the time, I, you know, I didn't know. There was I know there was some concern with the admissions board about me.
Be unable to There were some questions and interviews. You know, not real direct, but I could kinda see the, you know, what they were About all right, well, how is this gonna How's this gonna work? He can't use his feet. I mean, how's he going to do the wrist at? You know, the little pedal that controls everything.
And that's something that. I didn't. I never. I mean, I knew that was how it worked. But uh I didn't think about it.
I didn't care. We'll figure it out. You know, how's he going to keep his hands clean? And, you know, just... things like that.
But I you know, it's not something thought about or used. Yeah. As um A roadblock. I just never even. It's just one of those things.
That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to do it. And I'll figure we'll figure out. How to make it work. You know, sometimes I'll go in the rooms and You know, they'll be surprised.
And sometimes they'll even say something. I remember several times, you know, going Like today I was in the operating room. And I'll go I'll go into the room to talk to the parents, you know, before we we go back and a lot of times the grandmom will be there.
Well the grandmama wasn't at The initial Woo-hoo-hoo. Yeah, I'll go busting up in there and You know, and it's Susie, and you know, I'm talking to little Susie. You ready to get your teeth clean, brush, and going through all the stuff and I can see the grandmama just kind of almost a little confused. They're just Surprised, you know, and they'll even, I've had even some of them ask, you know. I'll get to talking, and you know, she'll, you know, she'll say, This is your dentist.
The older pop, I mean, they'll just ask you. I mean, they're not embarrassed to. you know, ask a question and um You know, they're just. A little Surprised that You know, and a lot of them think that It was that I was hurt. after I went to dental school.
It's a lot more. shocking or surprising to 'em when, you know, I tell 'em, you know, I know I was hurt when I was fifteen and You know, and you still went to dental school? And yeah. I think that's a weird or strange observation that more reaction that people have that, you know if you're disabled or there's just certain things you can't do or it's expected that, you know, you're not gonna achieve real big things or You know, after I was hurt, you know, obviously I was depressed about a lot of things, but depressed that I couldn't. Do you A lot of things that I used to love doing.
You know, football and you know, different sports and golf and I still miss golf. You know, I I get sad when we're down at the beach and You know, the boys are You know, they love playing golf. There are things like that that I do. You know, when I say I don't ever think about it or I don't. There are things like that that I do.
I don't know if they make me sad, but Well, maybe I do. Maybe I get sad. That, you know, I wish I could. do that with them.
Now, you know, and Hayden's for we're down at the beach and I've Wish I could. Walk down the beach with their with the waves splashing and collect seashells. That's a specific thought I guess I've had is going to the beach and and not being able to Play with her, go out into the water and hold her up, and you know, like all the other dads are doing, and anything that I can't do. If I run into it. You know, I might.
Get a little That or I'll think about it. You know, because I say, you know. You know, if I put my mind to it, you can do anything.
Well There are limitations on that.
Okay, I can't get up and run out into the water and hold my little... Girl up on the beach. There are things like that that I might get a little emotional about or kind of sad about, but There are things that I do miss, or the mit or maybe I miss out on that I wish. I could do, but I don't lose sleep over it. Kind of think about it and But then uh I just Move on.
I do something different. Life is Short. And I've gone through. Periods in my life after I got hurt where you know I was down about things. Not maybe not my wheelchair, but.
You only got so much time. Here. And you gotta. You gotta. Play with them.
And you've been doubt. You just gotta pick yourself up. And go. And that's what I've tried to do. And when I get down or worried about something or stressed about something, I just.
Try to remember, you know, how Blessed, I feel like I am. To be Where I am. Catch myself a lot of times saying Having really. I mean, you're really wo you're worried about that? Look at how successful you've been.
Look at how much you know God has blessed you and and you're worried about not having enough or wanting to do more or doing this, you know, so You just gotta. You just gotta live life. That's all I can say. Lately, in the last couple of months, I've had like this anxiety stuff, you know, and I've. about did I do enough, have I done this right, or golly, I should have done this in the past.
Why did I sell this? And I guess I'm middle-aged. I worry about Am I gonna be able to keep going? Statistically. Paraplegics.
Quadra police it. Habo. Shorter lifespan. Not significantly. But it's, you looked at statistics, you know, you just don't live as long.
And the main reason for that is, you know, you just. You have Something going on and you don't know. a melodoma or something on your hip or, you know, or some kind of Bladder cancer, something that you would, you know, you would have some pain or something from, and you would. You know, you would go to your doctor about. I worry about that, you know, especially now.
I've got a little four-year-old and I still. Want to be around. For the most part, they're irrational thoughts, it's things that you can't. Control. You know, it's things in the past that You you did or you didn't do.
Things in the feature that you cannot control. You know, if I g I leave here and I get on the highway and I get Hit by a Mac truck. You know, there's you can't. control that kind of stuff.
So I think about that like why am I sitting here thinking about If I'm gonna. That Yeah. I can do everything I can. I can go to the doctor. every year or every six months and get a physical and Do things earlier than most people say you should.
So, you know, it's like a roller coaster for me. You know, I'm good. Like right now, I'm talking about it, and I'm good. And then I'll wake up and At 2 a.m. I'm in a panic attack.
I'm working through it. I'm better. I'm good now. Then Just one of those? Just another?
Another thing in life that's happening, I guess. Do as much as you can, and then you just gotta give it to God and let it go. and then live, life is too short. The story of Hayden Perkins, his wife Jessica, His beautiful kids. A life well lived.
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