She Never Saw It Coming

Abstract

In 2002, Laura Davidson was living in San Marcos, Texas. She had just finished her third semester at Texas State University when she and her best friend were hit head-on by a drunk driver. After the accident, she, her best friend, and the at-fault driver, were taken to the same Emergency Department. Two people survived. Davidson was transferred to a rehabilitation hospital in San Antonio, Texas, where she could be close to family during recovery. She went through extensive therapy over five months before returning to Texas State. This book chronicles the events not only leading her to Texas, but up to the accident, recreated details from the accident scene and the trials and tribulations that ultimately face survivors of a crash of this magnitude. It documents surgery and cognitive skills that had to be relearned while in the full-time care of nurses and a neurologist. After the physical healing was concluded, the much larger task of emotional healing had only begun. Davidson’s success and failures in the aftermath of this tragedy are shared without reserve in hopes to enlighten readers on the seriousness of this battle. One that seems to never end.