In search of angels

A Boston Marathon bombing survivor says proper PTSD treatment can help ‘reboot the brain.’

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Mount Dora resident Rebekah Gregory and her then-5-year-old son, Noah, were less than three feet away from the fi that detonated on April 15, 2013, at the Boston Marathon.

Rebekah endured 70 surgeries, including amputation of her left leg, while her son walked away nearly unscathed. “My body acted as a human shield for him,” she says.

However, the post-traumatic stress was “a different kind of animal,” she says. It eventually led her to start Rebekah’s Angels Foundation, a nonprofi dedicated to providing resources and financial assistance to children suffering post-traumatic stress disorder due to trauma.

What do you remember from the bombing? “I remember my body being pinned to the ground. I was only able to move my head. My bones were lying next to me on the sidewalk. I was in a pool of my own blood. My left leg was on fire. I thought I was going to die. I could feel the blood draining from my body, I could feel the life draining from me ….

“Out of my peripheral vision I saw Noah, so out of all the people, out of all the screaming and chaos, I could barely even hear because both of my at that moment that my son was “About 39 days into my hospital stay, I was transferred from Boston to Houston by a jet and receive medical care. When they were wheeling me into the worry, Mom. We are never leaving little boy say that after everything was just heartbreaking. It led me

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