Amfahr shows perseverance, dedication to studies April 15, 2010

Erika Amfahr knows what it must be like to be dead.

On Jan. 13, 2007, Amfahr was driving to her hometown of Grundy Center during a winter storm. Twelve miles from home, an oncoming van lost control and hit her head on.

“All of the sudden I literally felt like I was dead,” Amfahr said. “It felt like I was on a school bus and God was the driver. I thought maybe this was a dream, maybe I’m going to wake up, but I didn’t.”

Amfahr was in the intensive care unit at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines, where she remained for the next five weeks. She was transferred to On With Life in Ankeny, a brain-injury rehabilitation center that became home for the next five and a half months.

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