Anna Ferguson

was in a dreamlike state, right?

Like I was so confused.

I was obviously hurt, but I hadn't realized it at that point in time.

And I didn't really come to, I was just confused.

Why was this happening?

Why aren't we moving?

Why is it all, what's going on?

And it wasn't until my dad climbed down and I saw a space in front of me and he goes, hey, you okay?

That my bubble kind of burst and I thought, okay.

oh shit, I can't breathe, right?

And that was when it all kind of came crashing in.

So this beautiful dreamlike state that had protected me for what felt like a really long time just burst and all this noise came rushing in, this moment of sheer panic of, I can't breathe, I can't get out, I'm completely trapped here, something is terribly wrong, but I don't know what it is.

And so essentially what happened was upon impact, the seatbelt tightened around my chest.

So

So for my sister, she was behind me.

So her spine took all of that impact and she had a fractured spine.

For me, it had caused kind of that blunt force trauma to my chest area.

So I had a bruised heart.

I ended up with a lacerated spleen, a dislocated shoulder, some broken ribs, and the real impact had impacted my heart.

So the heart is basically the one muscle that can't