Young man is living the sequel to his first life
James Karwin grew up in Menifee but moved to Illinois to attend college. He stayed there and began his career as a math teacher at a local high school two days before his life took a drastic turn. He was riding in the backseat of a car that had a head-on collision with a tree Aug. 21, 2023, in Aurora, Illinois.He broke his neck and five bones in his face, had a complete spinal cord injury at the second and third vertebrae of the lumbar region and temporary kidney failure. He had an above-the-knee amputation of his left leg and had his colon, small intestine and 80% of his big intestine removed.“The driver was fine, talked to the cops and went to work the next day; the passenger broke his foot,” James Karwin, who spent six weeks in the hospital and then five weeks doing in-patie