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Amber's Story
April 17, 2008 |
Amber Sigurani was recently enjoying a drive along interstate 75 with her
sister-in-law. The young mother was just
minutes away from her exit when a delivery truck clipped her car and sent it
spinning. “My car went to the left side
of the guardrail and I hit it. I couldn’t hold the car no more and I grabbed my
sister-in-law and the car just started flipping.”
Amber was able to climb out of the wreckage but was shocked at the state
of her body. “When I got out of the car
my foot was obviously broken it was like Jell-O.
It was just like dragging. I
remember there was blood on my face and I wasn’t cut at all, there were no cuts,
so it was coming out of my mouth.” Within
minutes the 22-year-old was being flown to the Trauma
Center at Lee
Memorial Hospital. It
was there that physicians found Amber’s most serious injury, a ruptured liver. Dr. Fonte works with the LMHS Trauma and
Surgical Critical Care Department. “Her
injury was a severe as it gets short of being lethal. Fortunately for her that
wasn’t the case.” Amber and her son
Julian are now enjoying life to the fullest.
She knows the Lee Memorial
Trauma Center
played a crucial role in her survival.
“I’m very, very lucky…a lot of people don’t get that lucky. I’m just happy they had that there because
without that I wouldn’t be here today and I’m very grateful.” There are only 21 hospitals in
Florida that are specially designated as Trauma Centers. Car
crashes cause more deaths in the United States than cancer, heart disease, lung cancer and stroke. |
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