What do ten metal screws and a titanium plate give you?
A funny looking x-ray, for starters. And a story.
That's Holly Payne's leg, her left femur to be exact.
It didn't always look that way. On June 6, 1994, she was struck by a drunk driver on a mountain road in Colorado three weeks after graduating from college. The facts. It was dark. She had stopped her car to give a flashlight to two mountain bikers. They were cute. She was flirting. They told her they were from the East Coast, but no sooner could she say, 'Me, too,' a small pick-up truck hit them all on Gothic Road, Crested Butte, Colorado. She didn't see the truck. She didn't see her body sail over her car and land on the road, 200 yards below the hill of the local miners' cemetery. She couldn't hear. She couldn't feel. She thought the cute boys were dead. (Read more...)