Teacher's Aide, Impaled While Protecting Students In Oklahoma Tornado

GODREKR · #1 05-23-2013, 01:48 PM

When Suzanne Haley was gravely injured in the Moore, Okla., tornado, she didn't panic. Instead, the teacher's aide tried to allay her first-graders' fears by asking them about the sparkly stickers and rubber stamps they were using on their end-of-year scrapbooks.

At first, Haley, a 35-year-old single mother of two, thought her leg was simply stuck under something heavy -- until her daughter, who attends Briarwood and was in her classroom, let out a loud scream.

Luckily, the desk leg hit her calf muscle instead of major nerves, bone or arteries, Haley said.

She managed to unscrew the desk leg from the desktop, all while calming her students and daughter. All the children escaped unharmed, she said.

Story.

Sharon · #2 05-23-2013, 02:07 PM

That's awful, poor lady

Faline · #3 05-23-2013, 02:24 PM

Cool impalement though

dietcherrycoke · #4 05-23-2013, 04:47 PM

Glad she--and her students--are okay!

ldelgadillo · #5 05-23-2013, 06:02 PM

collaredgirl65 · #6 05-23-2013, 06:15 PM

Abaaub · #7 05-23-2013, 06:28 PM

She's awesome! A hero!

LadyCPlum · #8 05-23-2013, 06:36 PM

Ouch, poor dear. But a huge

for putting the safety of her charges first. We need more people like her in the world.

Audioguru · #9 05-23-2013, 07:12 PM

Gooch_Rash · #10 05-23-2013, 07:15 PM

That is one calm and collected woman. She's teacher of the year for sure.

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