Truck crushed her body, not her resolve to walk
Cary Aspinwall
The Arizona Republic
Aug. 31, 2006 12:00 AM Gilbert resident Cathi Worley last year was given a 10 percent chance of walking again.
Now Worley is not only walking, she's doing yoga and planning when she might go skiing with her sons again.
Worley, 39, was lucky to be alive after a truck backed over her and crushed her in May 2005. She was walking in Cave Creek at nighttime, and the driver didn't see her.
Doctors thought her spine was severed. She remembers waking in the hospital, and doctors asking her to move her legs. Only her right toes would wiggle slightly.
She spent two weeks in an intensive care unit and had three surgeries in 10 days. Doctors had to implant six screws in her neck, two rods lining six of her vertebrae and remove a broken rib. After that, it was three weeks in a nursing rehabilitation facility.
**Truly amazing story which highlights the amazing benefits of practicing Yoga.
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Namaste,
Nat
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