The Brief
- Shelly Graham lost her leg and was in a coma for a month after a motorcycle accident in 2023.
- She was thrown 60 feet and had to be resuscitated.
- Tuesday, she and the first responders and medical staff who saved her life reunited.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla – April 22, 2023 is a day Shelly Graham doesn’t remember, but will never forget.
“I was pulling up to my block,” Graham said. “My friend was in front of me and I went to make a left turn and was waiting in the center lane. As soon as I went to make that left turn, that was the last thing I remember. Almost a month later, I woke up in the hospital and I was told that I had been in a motorcycle accident and that I lost my leg,” she said.
Graham and a vehicle collided near 71st Avenue North and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street North in St. Pete. She was thrown 60 feet. It happened right down the street from Fire Station 7.
Tuesday, she reunited with the first responders from the station and Sunstar Paramedics, and medical staff from Orlando Health Bayfront who saved her life.
“I truly believe that you were put there on that shift to save me,” Graham told them inside Station 7.…