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发帖数: 1604 | 1 I Think I Can!
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you 're right.
Henry Ford
Rocky Lyons, the son of New York Jets defensive end Marty Lyons, was five
years old when he was driving through rural Alabama with his mother, Kelly.
He was asleep on the front seat of their pickup truck, with his feet resting
on her lap.
As his mom drove carefully down the winding two lane country road, she
turned onto a narrow bridge. As she did, the truck hit a pothole and slid
off the road, and the right front wheel got stuck in a rut. Fearing the
truck would tip over, she attempted to jerk it back up onto the road by
pressing hard on the gas pedal and spinning the steering wheel to the left.
But Rocky's foot got caught between her leg and the steering wheel and she
lost control of the pickup truck.
The truck flipped over and over down a 20-foot ravine. When it hit bottom,
Rocky woke up. "What happened, Mama?" he asked. "Our wheels are pointing
toward the sky."
Kelly was blinded by blood. The gearshift had jammed into her face, ripping
it open from lip to forehead. Her gums were torn out, her cheeks pulverized,
her shoulders crushed. With one shattered bone sticking out of her armpit,
she was pinned against the crushed door.
"I'll get you out, Mama," announced Rocky, who had miraculously escaped
injury. He slithered out from under Kelly, slid through the open window and
tried to yank his mother out. But she didn't move. "Just let me sleep,"
begged Kelly, who was drifting in and out of consciousness. "No, Mama,"
Rocky insisted. "You can't go to sleep."
Rocky wriggled back into the truck and managed to push Kelly out of the
wreckage. He then told her he'd climb up to the road and stop a car to get
help. Fearing that no one would be able to see her little boy in the dark,
Kelly refused to let him go alone. Instead they slowly crept up the
embankment, with Rocky using his meager 40-pound frame to push his 104-pound
mother. They crawled inches at a time. The pain was so great that Kelly
wanted to give up, but Rocky wouldn't let her.
To urge his mother on, Rocky told her to think "about that little train,"
the one in the classic children's story, The Little Engine That Could, which
managed to get up a steep mountain. To remind her, Rocky kept
repeating his version of the story's inspirational phrase: "I know you can,
I know you can."
When they finally reached the road, Rocky was able to see his mother's torn
face clearly for the first time. He broke into tears. Waving his arms and
pleading, "Stop! Please stop!" the boy hailed a truck. "Get my mama to a
hospital," he implored the driver.
It took 8 hours and 344 stitches to rebuild Kelly's face. She looks quite
different today—"I used to have a straight long nose, thin lips and high
cheekbones; now I've got a pug nose, flat cheeks and much bigger lips"—but
she has few visible scars and has recovered from her injuries.
Rocky's heroics were big news. But the spunky youngster insists he didn't do
anything extraordinary. "It's not like I wanted it to happen," he explains.
"I just did what anyone would have done." Says his mother, "If it weren't
for Rocky, I'd have bled to death." | b****d
发帖数: 4648 | 2 THAT IS SUCH A TOUCHING STORY.
"The Little Engine That Could, which
managed to get up a steep mountain."
Thank you for sharing! I like Rocky. He is so fearless.
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resting
【在 w******t 的大作中提到】
: I Think I Can!
: Whether you think you can or think you can't, you 're right.
: Henry Ford
: Rocky Lyons, the son of New York Jets defensive end Marty Lyons, was five
: years old when he was driving through rural Alabama with his mother, Kelly.
: He was asleep on the front seat of their pickup truck, with his feet resting
: on her lap.
: As his mom drove carefully down the winding two lane country road, she
: turned onto a narrow bridge. As she did, the truck hit a pothole and slid
: off the road, and the right front wheel got stuck in a rut. Fearing the
| h*********g
发帖数: 5713 | 3 宝贝儿，how long does it take you to read it?
【在 b****d 的大作中提到】
: THAT IS SUCH A TOUCHING STORY.
: "The Little Engine That Could, which
: managed to get up a steep mountain."
: Thank you for sharing! I like Rocky. He is so fearless.
:
: .
: resting
| b****d
发帖数: 4648 | 4 //Knock Why do you ask that,silly?
【在 h*********g 的大作中提到】
: 宝贝儿，how long does it take you to read it?
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