(West Central Online) – A southwestern Saskatchewan woman injured in a serious 2004 crash has published a memoir about her recovery from a severe brain injury and the challenges she has faced over the past two decades.
Months after graduating high school on the honour roll, Dinsmore’s Samantha Annala suffered a traumatic brain injury on August 9, 2004, in a motor vehicle collision in Saskatoon. The crash hospitalized her with a Glasgow Coma Scale score of six after she was found about 125 feet from where the truck she was travelling in came to rest.
“He had told my family that because I came in the hospital on a (scale of) six, I might never leave the hospital,” she said. “He said if I did leave the hospital that, I might live with them for the rest of my days. He really couldn’t say a whole bunch because my injury was so severe.” CONTINUE