An Oklahoma woman who nearly died from a ‘catastrophic brain injury’ in November ran the Boston Marathon on Monday.
Last November, Rachel Foster and her husband, John, were riding electric scooters around their neighborhood when Rachel fell off, sustaining serious injuries to her head and multiple broken bones. She was rushed to the hospital.
“They basically said a severely catastrophic brain injury, which I later found in medical literature, is a term for pretty much the worst type of brain injury, where there’s not really a chance of coming back,” said John.
The 35-year-old was in a coma for 10 days and doctors had to replace part of her skull with an implant. Doctors told her family that she may never regain consciousness.
However, just one day before she was scheduled to be removed from life support, Rachel miraculously woke up.
After receiving surgery and treatment at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, Rachel began her difficult journey of rehabilitation and recovery.
Despite facing immense challenges, Rachel, who has always been a passionate runner, was determined to not let her accident keep her from doing what she loves.
She spent weeks relearning basic motor skills and didn’t walk again until January 22.
Just goes to show you how powerful the mind and body are!
That’s pretty darn amazing! Multiple broken bones and a catastrophic brain injury? Then runs the Boston Marathon? One tough lady!
Imagine if she got the Fauci shot? She’d be dead anyway.
Likely was very fit since she would have had to qualify for Boston during a race earlier last year.
Don’t matter kiss your republican dreams goodnight.
Talk about telling Charon to kiss your ass. Bravo!
Very inspiring!
A forty dollar helmet would have avoided this post.
And no I’m not a whiny libtard.
I raced cars for eight years and know a bit about safety.
I was only travelling at most 135 mph.
You get on a jet plane at 400 mph and hit turbulence ,if you do not have your seat belt on your face is in the seat in front of you or in the overhead bin.
You are in a plane it feels safe,or on a electric bike, safe most of the time if you have balance,then something happens.
I,m 68 now have taken too many chances in my life to be preaching.
But you know,”Get Old get Cranky”.
Speaking of a dumb move and a lack of safety equipment, I remember putting on a pair of sealed bearing, roller skates and coasting down a fairly small, newly paved hill in Hawaii. Being young and dumb, and being in Hawaii all I had on was shorts, tee shirt, no helmet. A previous girl friend was driving along side me in a 68 Tempest and hollering out my speed. I got to 30+ mph and I’m damn glad I ran out of down hill roll. I only did that once. It never occurred to me to have a helmet. Probably not this lady either.
Sometimes they wake up just to die.
I greatly admire anyone that pushes their body to extreme levels. David Goggins is inspiring and anyone that completes a marathon is a stud.
I used to know a guy who ran the Big Foot 200 Endurance Run, twice;
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The only thing I did that was really challenging is climbing Half-Dome, did it a few times. It is a 12-hour climb. The wife used to work at Yosemite when she was in high school, she told me about this friend of hers that used to run up to the top of Half-Dome, run.
But for all time studliness when it comes to pushing your body to the limit, no one can match Alex Honnold. He is the guy that free solo climbed up the face of El Capitan in Yosemite. If you ever get the chance, watch Free Solo, the movie documentary about that climb.
Rich, I’ve seen that. I can’t imagine what makes a guy think it can be done. Well, he showed everyone that it can be done.
Free Solo?
I thought that was the plot to Return of the Jedi?