Vidya: crash survivor shares her story to save other lives
BETHANY, Okla. - Kaylyn Barbour's life suddenly changed in May of 2017 along a dirt road in Love County.
"I did not have my seatbelt, and we had control of the vehicle and I was ejected from the passenger window onto a fence, and I consequently fractured my cervical vertebrae and it paralyzed me from shoulders down, "Barbour said.
The driver and the other passenger did not suffer any major injuries. However, Barbour's life was drastically changed.
"Initially, she had a tracheotomy that she was breathing through that we've been able to get that out," said Tami McMichael, a nurse practitioner at the Children's Rehabilitation Center.
Barbour is now confined to a wheelchair.
"I used to draw a lot. Now, I can not use my hands as much as I could, and I can not see a lot of things I used to be accustomed to doing before, "she said.
Now, Barbour's using her story to, hopefully, keep what happened to her from happening to others. BETHANY, Okla. - Kaylyn Barbour's life suddenly changed in May of 2017 along a dirt road in Love County.
"I did not have my seatbelt, and we had control of the vehicle and I was ejected from the passenger window onto a fence, and I consequently fractured my cervical vertebrae and it paralyzed me from shoulders down, "Barbour said.
The driver and the other passenger did not suffer any major injuries. However, Barbour's life was drastically changed.
"Initially, she had a tracheotomy that she was breathing through that we've been able to get that out," said Tami McMichael, a nurse practitioner at the Children's Rehabilitation Center.
Barbour is now confined to a wheelchair.
"I used to draw a lot. Now, I can not use my hands as much as I could, and I can not see a lot of things I used to be accustomed to doing before, "she said.
Now, Barbour's using her story to, hopefully, keep what happened to her from happening to others.
"I saw kids come in through that, they had accidents, and they changed their lives and, a lot of times, it's because of another drunk driver or they were not wearing their seat belt," she said.
Barbour entered 'Safe Kids Worldwide' video challenge called 'Take it from a Teen' and won at the state and national level. The video will debut in October at a national conference.
"It changed my life so much. I do not want to see other kids in that same situation, "she said.