My husband walks in and he says he wants to go for a ride.
And I was like, I don't know. I had a really bad gut feeling.
And it was stronger than any other premonition I've ever had.
I don't remember riding that day.
I don't remember flying through the air.
I don't remember
much at all.
But I remember the impact.
The next thing I remember,
I was laying there on the concrete and I couldn't move.
I didn't know what happened.
And my husband, his face was above me and he was rubbing my head.
And he said 'you hit me,' he was crying.
The impact is really,
like when I hit him.
That, that plays back in my mind constantly.
I don't know. I'm just, I'm thankful to be alive.
The very first interaction with Dr. Hakeos I remember him coming into
my room. I had so many questions,
like, all right, what happened? I mean, what do my x-rays look like?
He showed me my x-rays before and after the fix.
And he's just an amazing doctor.
Like my husband said, he put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
The break in her arm was pretty significant.
It was everything from her shoulder to about two thirds of the
way down the humerus. All this white is all the metals.
And this is the metal plate that sits along the side of the,
of the humorous bone and goes everywhere from the top up here by the shoulder
joint, almost all the way down to her elbow.
Her pelvic fracture had induced a lot of bleeding.
And so that was one of the concerns is that she was losing a lot of blood and
that really sets the urgency for all of it.
We augmented this with something called an external fixator,
which is what these big white metal pins are here.
So those actually go into the pelvis and there are
metal bars that stick out across the front of her abdomen.
So that's what these shadows are here.
I had that external fixator in.
Once I got that removed, that was like, I was free.
After that I started putting weight on my right leg and I'm on my way to
walking.
I'm already walking.
Because of COVID I wasn't able to see my family and it just made it really
hard while I was in the hospital. I just,
I felt like isolated a little bit lonely
COVID outbreak in Michigan,
or at least here at Henry Ford really had just started about a week before.
If she was not the first,
she was definitely one of the first in the operating room entirely,
to set everything up and put in a special room and wear special equipment.
And then ultimately a few days later,
her tests had come back negative and she didn't have it,
but in the beginning we just didn't know,
and didn't have the time to wait to find out. We had to,
had to take her to operate and get her fixed.
I have my moments where I just feel down and I just want to cry it
out. But my family is,
is there just to keep me moving forward, my husband and my daughter, especially.
And my daughter, my daughter's just, she's been my little helper too.
She's my goofy little child. So she's always keeping me laughing.
She has been awesome helping me out.
There is a very big power in positivity.
I knew I had limitations,
but I made it a point to tell myself that I'm going to do
this again. I'm going to do that again. And I made goals for myself
It is hard to stay positive all the time.
But I do,
it's just who I am.
You can't run a test to find out if a patient has that sort of resilience.
And Sarah certainly has demonstrated that she really just set her mind to it,
that she was going to get better. And she has.
Riding is a way of life.
And there's nothing like it just being on two wheels,
just open and just free.
And I don't think I'll ever not ride again.
If you fall, you just get back up.
Character is how well you do after you've
fallen and I need to stay positive and keep moving forward.