“I had a total of 21 surgeries for everything that was going on with me.”
Luckily for her passengers, no one else lost a limb, but Kennedy eventually had her leg amputated at the bone, a huge burden for a 16-year-old at the time.
Despite the hardships, she says that she’s happy that she had the experience, which took her several months to heal from, as she has become a public speaker, spreading positivity and attempting to make a difference in the world.
She said: “I would go through it all again just to have that rewarding feeling and feeling like I made a difference in someone’s life.”
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