{"id":26905,"date":"2013-10-07T09:32:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T13:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=26905"},"modified":"2020-10-21T14:51:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T18:51:04","slug":"utmc-patient-to-hold-book-signing-on-health-science-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/10_07_2013\/utmc-patient-to-hold-book-signing-on-health-science-campus","title":{"rendered":"UTMC patient to hold book signing on Health Science Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"

What began as a joyful motorcycle ride with her husband soon became a nightmare for then 56-year-old Sandy Blank.<\/p>\n

\"Sandy<\/a>Blank\u2019s life changed forever May 28, 2006, when her Yamaha 1100 collided with a vehicle. The impact nearly killed her; she broke both legs, her left wrist and arm, two fingers on her right hand and her right elbow, and her pelvis and ribs. She also ruptured her spleen and liver.<\/P><\/p>\n

After the accident, Blank was sent to The University of Toledo Medical Center, where she underwent 42 separate operations in the care of Dr. Nabil Ebraheim, professor and chair of orthopedics.<\/p>\n

Although her left arm is locked in a 30-degree angle and she sometimes limps and has problems with dizziness and balance, Blank feels lucky to be alive. She is sharing her story with her book, My Physical Scars Are Beautiful: They Represent God\u2019s Answer to Prayer.<\/em><\/p>\n

Blank will hold a book signing at UTMC Wednesday, Oct. 9, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the new pavilion next to the Orthopedic Center.<\/p>\n

The tragic accident changed Blank\u2019s life forever, but the Monroe, Mich., native still enjoys riding along with her husband on his motorcycle. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to steer people away from motorcycle riding, but I think people should wear a helmet,\u201d Blank told The Blade earlier this year. \u201cI wore one, and if I hadn\u2019t, I wouldn\u2019t be here today. I suffered all these injuries to my body, but not to my head, and that\u2019s because of my helmet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sandy Blank, a motorcyclist who survived a head-on collision, shares her story in her book, \u201cMy Physical Scars Are Beautiful,\u201d which she will sign Wednesday, Oct. 8, near UT Medical Center’s Orthopedic Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,63],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61849,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26905\/revisions\/61849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}