Which other RM'ers will be at this show?

Which other RM'ers will be at this show?

I'm going to the show on the 18th, and I'm really excited (duh). I haven't been a fan of PJ for very long (only since 2012), but I'd been hoping for the chance to see them pretty much since I first started listening and fell in love basically right away. I actually can't believe I'm going at all, to tell the truth.

In August of last year, I slipped and fell coming down the stairs in my house. I hit my head, and I ended up fracturing my skull, and there was tons of pressure, bleeding, and swelling in my brain. By the time I got to the hospital, I had to be put in a medically induced coma to (hopefully) keep me alive. According to my family, I did come very close to dying.

When I woke up four days later, I had no memory of the accident; the last thing I remember is going to sleep the night before. I didn't know if I'd ever walk the same way again, or if I'd sustained any kind of brain damage. None of the surgeons and doctors knew exactly how long it would take me to fully heal and recover. To say I was scared, angry, and confused would be an understatement. I was more miserable than I can ever remember being in my life, which is saying a lot...I have cerebral palsy, so I've dealt with my fair share of difficult stuff.

Thankfully, I ended up being fine as far as walking goes (fine for me at least...I still sometimes use a walker, wheelchair, or crutch to get around, but I did before I fell too), and none of the injuries to my brain had any longterm effects. I know I'm incredibly lucky to be alive at all, let alone back to where I was before.

The only thing that really kept my spirits up and gave me hope that I'd get better someday during the three weeks I spent in the hospital was music. Even though I couldn't listen to my iPod (the fracture in my skull was pretty close to my ear, so we wanted to be sure I didn't have any hearing loss), I knew Pearl Jam would understand the pain, confusion, sadness, fear, and anger I was feeling at the time, and that means a lot. In the year since the accident, I've come to consider Given to Fly to be "my song" (hence my username, haha); I really connect with the idea of fighting through something (physically and emotionally, in my case), and not giving in or becoming a negative person or letting what happened to you take away your faith and hope. It would mean a lot to me, more than I can say even, if the band could play it on the 18th...if not for me specifically, then just during the concert at all.

I wanted to post about this on the Ten Club forums, but I didn't know you had to be a paid member to do that (which I'm not, unfortunately). I figured maybe posting here could help get my story out there somehow.