You Never Think It Will Happen

My 21 yr old daughter Jeni was on her way to nursing school when she was hit by a 1 ton work truck, that didn’t stop at a stop sign. My daughter never saw him and has no memory of her accident. Before she was air lifted to a trauma center in St Louis the guy who hit her busied himself by taking pictures of them working on her and extricating her from her car, and posting them on FB..stating “he had a bad start to his friday”. Besides a lot of broken bones, she had a TBI. She has a frontal lobe (left side) injury, a diffuse axonal injury and a bleed in her thalamus. The neuro doc thought she had a stroke before we told him it was due to a mva. He later told her the concussion she sustained was like a pro football players career of concussions. JEni was in the hospital for 10 days, then rehab for 10 days..came home and was wheelchair bound for 3 months. After 9 months she was able to start to drive again, and go back to work. After what she’s been thru she’s pretty much a miracle, if the accident had been a split second earlier or later she would have been killed, she has a wonderful support system, a dedicated family and boyfriend, and she has persevered and triumphed thru this event in her life. She still has anger issues, memory and forgetful issues and I’m saddened that her motivation and drive to become a nurse is gone, and she is searching her soul to discover her new passion…it’ll come Jen, don’t worry.