How This Single Woman Thrived After a Devastating, Nearly Fatal Crash
She’s single. She has “the ones,” not The One. Was that a key to her resilience?
Suppose you were bicycling along the side of a road, and a distracted driver barreled into you, sending you careening down a hill, with bones snapping and a wrist severed along the way. You are experiencing a level of pain you never even knew was possible. The crash scene is so horrifying that all the vehicles and personnel associated with fatalities are sent your way. Do you keep trying to breathe, trying to hold onto life? What if you knew that multiple surgeries and painful, relentless rehabilitation was in your future, and that you would never be the same again. And suppose, too, if you think it is relevant, that you are single. Do you keep breathing those agonizingly painful breaths?
Kristin Noreen kept breathing. She was that cyclist, and she held on for dear life. On Silver Wings: A Life Reconstructed is her story. It is a story of heartbreak and healing, grit and resolve and triumph, without a whiff of self-pity. It is beautifully told, both harrowing and inspiring in equal measure. I think it is movie material.
Before the crash, Kristin was an avid cyclist (routinely doing 80 mile a day tours with stops at hostels), an adoring cat…
