LUBBOCK, Texas — Ten years ago, on December 17th, 2014, then-17-year-old Kennedy Reeves was hit by a pickup truck walking across the street to Frenship High School. Reeves overcame a long list of injuries, including a broken femur, a lacerated liver and a severe diffuse axonal traumatic brain injury, which took her the longest to recover from.
“I am very much not supposed to be really alive,” she said. “But if I was alive, very much not functioning like this.”
Kennedy’s father, Michael Reeves, said he was eating breakfast with his family when he got the phone call from Frenship High School telling him about the incident. When he arrived at University Medical Center, where Kennedy was, he didn’t know how severe her injuries were or if she would survive at all…