THOMASVILLE, N.C. (WGHP) — Even after multiple surgeries and a pending knee replacement operation, a hit-and-run survivor has refused to let pain define her purpose.
A lot has changed since Tanya Lewis was hit by a car on Church Street in Thomasville in March 2011.
She’s since become a wife and mother. She’s been married to her husband Curtis for 13 years.
“Doctors said I would never have kids, and we have three beautiful miracles,” she said.
There was concern as to whether she could have children between having Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and having plates in her pelvis from the accident.
“It makes me feel amazing that I have this beautiful family with my husband,” she said.
The family includes a son and a daughter Lewis proudly calls her bonus children.
Becoming a mother isn’t the only significant update. Lewis also became an author this year.
“People kept saying, ‘Tan, you have a testimony, and the world needs to hear it,’” she said.
In her book “From Pain to Purpose,” Lewis writes about her life experiences in hopes of encouraging other people.