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And i m still sort of functioning. and so yes, i feel some gratitude to david koch, and i feel much more gratitude to many more people than i will ever be able to thank. the emergency medical technician who got michael out of that taxicab then got me out of that taxi scab, both of us on stretchers. i wish i knew his name. or the napes of the strong men in that neighborhood who rushed from their houses, they rushed in there to help lift our stretchers out of that taxicab. i ve thanked my brilliant surgeon dr. david hellfit many times and i ll never start thanking him. he like many friends in showbiz sent me an e-mail joking about how he can t bring himself to say, break a leg tonight. living among the medical community as i did for weeks was a huge revelation to me. i d never been hospitalized before. i had never seen the extraordinary daily kindness and heroism of nurses up close. ....
The caribbean territory, the virgin islands. i was in a taxi, a big van with three rows of seats. i was in the first row behind the driver, my big brother michael was in the row behind me. he s not bigger than i am anymore but when i was 4 and he was 12, he was a lot bigger and a lot smarter and a lot braver. you know, of all the advantages a boy can have growing up there s nothing quite like a heroic big brother. and michael o donnell s three little brothers have always had that advantage every day of our lives. michael saw the crash coming and yelled something, a billionth of a second before the noise started. i was looking down at a map on my iphone. and so it was the deafening noise that told me we were in a collision. the noise seemed to go on forever. i couldn t see anything in the darkness except the light of the radio in the center of the dashboard in front of me. as the front end of that taxi was being crushed that radio ....
Lucky to be alive. i felt so lucky to be alive that if you told me then that i just lost a leg, i would have said, that s okay. i m lucky to be alive. when the noise of the crash finally stopped, there was a new noise in the van. it was a sound i had never heard before. my big brother in agony. michael instantly and correctly self-diagnosed a broken femur. his thigh bone was broken. it s the biggest bone in the body. it takes tremendous force to break it. it s one of the most painful bone fractures you can get. i thought i was okay. i couldn t see my legs below the knee. they were trapped under the driver s seat. michael asked if i could move my toes. i said i could. and then and only then he told me that meant i wasn t paralyzed. when someone leaned into the taxi and asked how many injured, i said just one. i was wrong. luckily both of the drivers were uninjured. the drunk driver who hit us was saved by an air bag. our taxi driver, a wonderful man, had his livelihood ruined ....
A little hospital that can do x-rays but cannot do surgery. the x-rays showed that michael needed surgery for the broken femur, and i needed surgery for a broken hip that didn t really begin to hurt until i was pulled out of the taxi. and then my family went to work. not the o donnells this time. my work family. you know those people who tell you that the company they work for is like family to them? and you don t believe them? how s this for family? a team led by the president of this network, phil griffin, and pat fili-krushel, head of the nbc news group, worked through the night to get me back to new york for surgery and they did exactly the same thing for my brother michael. they didn t have to do that. they sure didn t have to get my brother but they did. that s what family does. at some point in the rest of the years that i work here, i hope to find the words to adequately thank phil and pat and izzy povich and greg cordic and everyone who worked those 18 ....
Able to thank. the emergency medical technician who got michael out of that taxicab then got me out of that taxi scab, both of us on stretchers. i wish i knew his name. or the napes of the strong men in that neighborhood who rushed from their houses, they rushed in there to help lift our stretchers out of that taxicab. i ve thanked my brilliant surgeon dr. david helfet many times and i ll never start thanking him. he like many friends in showbiz sent me an e-mail joking about how he can t bring himself to say, break a leg tonight. living among the medical community as i did for weeks was a huge revelation to me. i d never been hospitalized before. i had never seen the extraordinary daily kindness and heroism of nurses up close. i had never depended on them. for weeks i was completely dependent on them. i had only one real day and night of pain in the hospital after surgery, and it was a ....