Hello kids, this is Risk, the show where people tell true stories they never thought they

dared to share.

I'm Kevin Allison and every Thursday we release these special episodes where we look

back at content from our earlier years.

Every other Thursday we feature just one classic story from the vaults.

We ask that you keep the historical context in mind.

Today in 2021 there's a different consciousness.

We've always asked storytellers to speak in as unfiltered away as possible and yet to

tell their stories with as much compassion as possible.

Even so I'm sure the storytellers and the host might have worded some of what they said

on these old episodes differently if they'd been recorded more recently.

As always the title of the whole series Risk is itself a content warning.

This week a story that Katie Samson first shared on the show in December of 2013 here's

Katie now with a story we call the first time again.

So I'm 20 years old I'm at a park with some friends it's evening time.

I'm on winter break from college my sophomore year and I'm home with some friends and we

go to this park and we decide to go sledding.

I jump in a sled at the top of the hill I hit my first jump there's two guys sitting behind

me and we lose control of the sled.

I let go and I fly through the air and I land right on my neck snapped it snapped and

I instantly knew that I had broken my neck and the paralysis was instant to the point

where I had been freezing my ass off on top of the hill and this warmth flows through

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