five year ago,the seventeen-year-old from Santa Barbara, California,was going to go to college on a full sports scholarship. One day he was playing baseball with his friends in his parents' yard. He slipped, fell, and hit his head against a concrete wall.Witnesses described the sound as " like a bowling ball hitting the floor."The impact opened a hole hole in Karl's head the size of a human fist.
nevertheless, Karl acknowledges he is lucky to be alive. Although he has gone through a lot, he hasn't given up, and able to function in society. He believes that, through modern medicine, he has been given a second chance at life.