Source: today.com | Repost Duerson Fund 4/24/2023 –
This past November, Rachel Foster, 35, and her husband John, 36, were out on a date night when they decided to take a ride on electric scooters in their Edmond, Oklahoma neighborhood. Suddenly, for reasons that are still a mystery, Rachel Foster lost consciousness and fell off her scooter. She ended up with a life-threatening brain injury and 17 broken bones.
After more than a week in a coma, multiple surgeries and months of rehabilitation later, Rachel Foster, owner and head chef at Moni’s Pasta and Pizza restaurant, completed the Boston Marathon on Monday in what the couple calls a “miraculous” recovery.
“Before she could stand up on her own and walk on her own, she was telling me from her hospital bed, ‘I still want to run Boston,'” John Foster tells TODAY.com.
Rachel Foster, who’s run about 10 marathons previously, had qualified and paid to run Boston before the accident. And she wasn’t going to let her goal slip away. “I’m a runner at heart and it brings me a lot of joy. It brings me a lot of stress relief,” she says. “But I knew I was not in the shape of running — I could barely move my body.”