Sunday the 16th around noon, Kathy, Ted and friends were on a ride back from the coast when Kathys bike clipped a guard-rail and sent her across both lanes to impact a rock wall. Ted was traveling two bikes behind, when he pulled the bike off her they discovered the severity of the injury to both legs.
Kathy was amazing!! Not only was she concious, she turned into her own EMT and began instructing everyone at the scene how to help save her life. She instructed Ted to lay her flat and put pressure on her leg "We need to restrict the blood-flow so I don't bleed out before the ambulance gets here!" She was asking to be thrown in the back of any passing truck, because she knew time was of the essence. She was afraid of loosing her right foot as it was almost completely severed.
Because her crash site was dead middle of crescent city and Cave Junction, the ambulance took 45 min. to arrive. After being transported to crescent city, the hospital had her air lifted to the Emanuel trauma center in Portland.
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