Briana Hudson

Briana Hudson is a spunky little smiling 5 year old who loves lasagna, fishing and spending quality time with family and friends. They consist of physical therapy sessions and doctors appointments. Briana is a T-4 incomplete paraplegic with a traumatic brain injury due to horrific car accident that occurred on October 16,2011.Briana and her mom were heading home from an Atlanta Falcons game when a car moving at a high rate of speed hit them both head on.Both were in critical condition but Briana had the worse injuries of the two. She was dead and revived 4 times at the. Children's Hospital of Atlantawhere she stayed for 3 1/2 months learning to speak, eat, and hold her head up again. One year and a half later after intensive therapy( now done at Tender Ones Therapy for 3 days a week at 4 hours a day, 1 hour on Sunday at home, and every 3 months for 1 week doing 8 hours a day at Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore Maryland. She is regaining the ability to sit up on her own,moving her arms and legs, with the specificpurposeof walking again!!! Her improvements are making leaps and right forward according. To Doctors seeing her. It's only a matter of time before she will leave the confinements of her wheelchair behind. Yet it is the life lessons on character and determination through such a traumatic experience that will carry beyond her and. Helen Keller once said " Character cannot be developed in ease and quite. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved." Helen Keller"