"JQ20I1* Continued from P.ine 1
( al si ionce major remetnlmrs only bits and pirn es of
that da\
Whilt* Iving mi tin' ground tin* former women's
rugby player thought she was on a rugby field and had
hern tackled She heard her friend, who received .1
t uni usnioii in flu an ident. fell her to stav down She
did lief arise she i ouldn’t get up
The ride to the hospital wasn't easy either While
in the ambulant1 the girl next to Tn/.er kept "si ream
itig her head off
"I was a< tuallv quite humorous. 1 o/.er said with
a big smile I turned to the ambulance drivn and
said 'Would sou please shut her uji
Hut that is typical Inzer making the best of a
bad situation
And nearly two sears after the act ident lo/ei
continues to turn the life threatening ordeal into a
positive outlet
Taking time out of her buss si fiedule Inzer Iras
els the state vvitli MADI) telling the starfish storv and
her nsv n slurs
"She's vers dedicated to getting across to her
peers alrout the tragedy drinking and driving can
bring.' said (lharlie Ihtrranl offii e manager of the Ku
gene i haptei of MAI II).
Inzer lias been traveling the state since December
UtBfl with Durrani's husband. Donny. 0>. who was
paralyzed 111 <1 single-car accident caused bv his own
drinking and driving negligent e I t years ,igo
"I really enjoy il You don’t reai h .ill the kids hut
you re.a h some of them and that makes a different e
Inzer said, reflet ting on the starfish print iplo
And at times Inzer's intensity has placet! her in
the limelight
She was selet ted to take part in a Blue Dross Blue
Shield awareness campaign, focusing on the e\ils of
drinking and driving The campaign resulted in two
commercials and a 10 minute educational video lea
luring her
The commercials have aired nationally and the
video is available through Blue Dross Blue Shield for
st hools to use
A to minute television documentary titled
"lianas Storv is also scheduled to air this fall
through an NB< affiliate station in Medford The piet e
features the Ttizer and two othei MADI) speakers ex
.miming the struggle she had to endure
Tozer's ordeal would make even the not so
squeamish grimat e
She spent I1 months 111 Sat red Heart Deneral
Hospital following the accident Thirty six davs were
spent 111 the intensive 1 are unit
The last thing I lememhei till the day of the acci
dent was being ill this big. while room and somebody
L
hilt* Photo
Tozer Rave Iniversity President Myles Brand a wheelchair tour of the campus for disabled access aware
ness.
kept on m reaming. 'Please. please put me to sleep
You've not to put me asleep I don't want to hi- awake
for tin-. \nd then I realized that I was the one who
was hurt and s< reaming as 1 drifted unconscious."
I nzer said
Ivvery dav seven ma< times pumped her full of nu
trients and pain medir me And stie vividly remembers
ttie day she first saw tier leg after the a< i ident
"He (lit the (temporary) < ast off. and what tie re
vealed didn't even look like my leg stie said "It just
didn't look like a leg
Hut the crushing event on Mas 14 was only the
first m a i ontinuing < ham of traumatic events
During the first two weeks in the hospital. Tozer
was m surgery even other dav Stie described herself
as a "doctor's child." meaning them was always
something wrong with hoi
At one point it looked as it her right leg would
have to tie amputated. Inzer said But she was detet
mined to keep tiei leg It was liei doc ision, and she
tnuglit hard tor it
As Tozei entered her third week in the hospital
she seemed to lul bottom
"That's when I dei ided I didn't w.hiI to live 1 had
just had enough, stie said 'I didn't think that 1 was
going to he able to walk again I thought 1 was going to
have to have a take leg I dull! I think 1 ( ollld go
through life not hiring able to walk and not being able
to plav sports
Hut she fought on. Yet not without further hard
ships.
With 40 percent of the muscle dying in her right
leg. dm tors had trouble covering the exposed hone
They first took .1 piece of fat and meat from her shoul
der flap and transplanted it to her leg
Her leg rejected the transplant, and Inzer feared
she lost her best < hance at walking.
Doctors pursued "Plan B." After ruling out a
transplant from her other shoulder flap, doctors pro
needed to transplant some interior muscles
This time it worked. But Inzer's tendon in her
foot had to he cut. resulting in .1 lack of extension
movement of her right foot
More than two dozen surgeries later. Tozer has
made a lot of friends at Sacred Heart General Hospital
I know almost everyone at the hospital." she
said I used to he able to come in the front door and
saw 'Where's liana's room?' and they could tell you
right off without looking it up."
I nzer's team of 15 doi tors from I'ugene to Seattle
are like grandfathers, and she is really close to the
nurses at Sacred Heart she said
lust now beginning to walk again, I nzer has spent
most of the last two \ears in a w lieeli hail And her at:
i ident has turned her into an advni ate tor disabled ai
(ess Most notable is the November wdieeli hail lour
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