![]() ![]() Review: What were the biggest physical obstacles to get through in getting yourself back to relative health, to the point where you could undertake such a strenuous activity? There are multiple nurses and PCAs (Patient Care Assistants) that I exchanged numbers with after I was discharged, so that I can keep them up to date on my progress. I do have a very close relationship with one of the medical students (now a Resident), and two of the doctors who helped me early on. Missing Taco Tuesday became the long-standing joke of my hospitalization.Īside from doctors, nurses, and medical students, I haven’t spoken to anyone who helped me that day. Jaczkowski: I remember thinking how beautiful of a day it was, and how excited I was that it was a Tuesday and I was going to get lunch with my cousin, and then also enjoy Taco Tuesday with friends after work. Review: What do you remember about the accident? Have you spoken with anyone since who helped you on that terrible day? It has been a long journey – I was still using assisted walking devices until mid-winter. I ride my bicycle any chance I can get, play Pokemon Go, and go on long, long walks with my mom at Belle Isle a couple days a week. How have you trained, and what have you done since your accident, to get you ready for this?Īmanda Jaczkowski: I’m in physical therapy four hours a week at Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan (RIM) at the DMC campus, and have been working with these trainers and therapists for over a year now. The Review: It’s an ambitious thing to run any marathon, or half marathon for that matter. We caught up to Jaczkowski, who lives in Hamtramck, by email, and she provided interesting answers to some questions about her past couple of years for our readership. Now recovered to an amazing degree, she is planning to run in this month’s upcoming Free Press International Half Marathon (more info below on that), fulfilling an ambition from 2017 that was put on hold. Needless to say, her active life came to a grinding halt, in favor of 85 days of hospitalization for 17 broken bones among other injuries, requiring 22 surgeries to this point to try to set things straight again. in Detroit, making a right turn onto Temple St., when she was essentially run over by a truck. On Tuesday, July 25, 2017, she was riding her bicycle on Third Ave. She has since made an amazing recovery.Īmanda Jaczkowski’s story is a fairly amazing one. ![]() Amanda Jaczkowski’s active sport life came to an abrupt halt two years ago when a truck struck her while she was riding her bike in Detroit. ![]()
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