Last year, when Maiken Scott asked about doing a piece for NewsWorks’ Pulse show regarding the traumatic brain injury I suffered in a 2008 hit-and-run, I’d sworn it was the last such story I’d do. Time to move on, went my thinking.
Well, this year, when Kevin Shelly — an old editor and friend from my AC Press days — asked about doing a piece for a Courier Post newspaper that I delivered as a preteen, his focus on my hit-and-run advocacy quickly convinced me to bend the rules a little bit.
So, here we are:
“On Dec. 20, Hickey was moved to Magee Rehabilitation Hospital in Philadelphia. It was around that time I saw him for the first time since the accident. I’d been one of his editors at The Press of Atlantic City when he was a young reporter, and we have remained friends.
“His movements then were hesitant, his speech halting and whispery. Hickey was normally a gregarious and voluble guy, so I had doubts he would return to a life of writing and chasing stories.
“So did he, though we’ve both been proven wrong.
“‘Oh, yeah, I flipped out,” Hickey noted. “I could not write. My right side was still paralyzed.
“‘I was really angry.'”
The rest of the story is available via this link.
More on the Medina Alert effort to come.