Graduating Ursuline Academy senior Christine Phan was just a sophomore when a knife-like pain sliced through her brain, nearly knocking her out.
It was Nov. 17, 2007, and Phan had just suffered a stroke.
Rushed to an area hospital, Phan remembers being hooked up to six beeping machines, surrounded by her parents and sister and thinking, “This is how I am going to die.”
She had less than a one-percent chance of survival.
It was November 29, and the Cincinnati Bengals had just finished a regular season home game. Wiese, an avid Bengal’s fan, decided to walk across the bridge and go to a local bar district, where his close friends and he celebrated the game.
Wiese made the choice to get into his car at the end of the evening to drive home. While heading across the Clay-Wade Bailey Bridge his car hit a retaining wall, flipped and slid over 50 feet. He narrowly missed flipping over the wall and down 20 feet to the streets below.
“My accident started my 28-day ‘nap,’” Wiese said half-heartedly. “I don’t remember anything but was told I was air-lifted to University.”
