attempted to get out of the smoking car. I glanced to my

left and noticed that my mother was bleeding badly and

struggling to free her feet from beneath the brake pedal.

My sister, who was riding in the back seat behind the

driver’s side, had pried her door open and escaped to help

my mother. I pulled myself halfway out of the car, but when

my hands hit the pavement below me, I passed out.

My eyes were closed but I could feel pressure against

my temples. Two men were shining a light into my eyes and

explaining to me how they would remove my body from the

mangled car. The Emergency Medical Technicians stabilized

my head and neck onto a backboard and loaded me into the

ambulance. We rode the siren the entire way to Nassau

County Medical Center. I was immediately rushed to the

emergency room. Doctors were surrounding me asking me

questions. Several nurses were hooking my arms to

intravenous tubes. My mother was shouting to me from behind

a curtain in the emergency room. She said, “Liz, don’t

worry. Everything will be fine.” She kept saying that

what had happened to me. I had internal bleeding near my

lucky. None of my doctors knew how or why my spleen had

on the corner of his bed and stroked his forehead. I

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