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Article: Life, 10 years later.(News)
- Article from:
- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- October 8, 2009
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His blurry memories of Oct. 6, 1999, include getting dressed for another routine day of high school and hitching a ride in his buddyAEs car, but Rob Komosa recalls nothing of the after-school football practice injury that ended his football career, nearly killed him and robbed him of his ability to walk, move his arms and legs, and breathe on his own.
"I remember it being a Wednesday, the last day of hard (full-contact) practice," Komosa says from his bed on the 10th anniversary of the injury. "I donAEt remember the practice or the carry that got me hurt."
His mornings now are easy to remember as they all begin the same, with his body naked under the ...