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is something about a mother’s intuition: It’s almost
always right — even when you don’t want it to be.
That was the case for Belinda Smith on June 12, 2014. That
evening, her daughter Cassidy abruptly came to mind.
“I immediately had this feeling something was wrong,” she says.
Unfortunately, her intuition was right.
Unexpected emergency
Earlier that evening, Cassidy went for a drive. She remembers the
early legs of that summer jaunt, traveling a farm-to-market road
in Scurry, windows rolled down and her favorite musician, Shania
Twain, crooning from the CD player.
“The next thing I knew, I was hunched over the steering
wheel,” she says.
An oncoming driver had swerved into Cassidy’s lane, hitting
her head on and thrusting the teenage girl’s car into a ditch.
Coincidentally, Cassidy’s friend lived just down the road from
where the accident occurred. His dad, a paramedic, rushed to
the scene.
“You know how people in movies say, ‘Stay with me?’ That’s
what happened,” Cassidy recalls. “I don’t remember any pain,
RECOVERY
When an evening drive turned tragic,
Methodist Dallas’ trauma team was ready
The
road to
STORY OF SURVIVAL
Watch Cassidy Smith as she sings the praises of the nurses and
doctors at Methodist Dallas who supported her throughout
her recovery.
