(WAVE) – A teenager with their entire life ahead of them gets into a crash, changing their life forever.
Lewis Ferguson, 19, has spent the last year and a half in Louisville after a crash forced him to relearn basic functions like walking and talking.
His pickup truck was mangled in the aftermath of the crash. “I just know I should be dead,” Ferguson said.
The crash happened on Oct. 11, 2020, when Ferguson was 18-years-old. The severity of the crash caused Ferguson to suffer a traumatic brain injury.
”He had injuries deep in his brain as well as outside, inside, right side, kind of all over,” Dr. Darryl Kaelin with U of L Health Frazier Rehabilitation Institute said. “He was in a minimally conscious state.” CONTINUE