(St. Charles Herald-Guide) – Sheyla Baye knows she has a long road ahead of her to get back to 100 percent. She’s taking it day by day. In December and while returning home from work, the 21-year-old Hahnville resident was recently involved in an automobile accident where her vehicle collided with a box truck in Harahan.
Baye was ejected from her seat and she said her windshield prevented her from being ejected from the car. But she struck the windshield head on, breaking the glass. She was hospitalized in critical condition. Her injuries are numerous.
Perhaps most notably, MRI testing revealed Baye suffered a grade 2 diffuse axonal injury (DAI), a type of traumatic brain injury caused by widespread damage to the brain’s nerve fibers. Grade 2 indicates that the injury is more than mild and involves deeper areas of the brain. CONTINUE