Local lady knows an angel was looking over her

Dorothy Cordray, 74, is convinced she has an angel looking over her.

So are her doctors and everybody else.

Dorothy’s late-model Lincoln automobile ran over both her legs in a freak accident last Friday evening.

“It was just a crazy, stupid accident,” said Dorothy, who is in good spirits and recovering at Cameron Community Hospital.

Dorothy and her husband Wilbert had just finished supper that evening and at about 7:30 Dorothy went out to clean the car.

“My back was hurting,” said Dorothy. “I wasn’t thinking right. I shouldn’t have been out there in the first place.”

Dorothy had finished cleaning the gear shift column.

“Next time I’ll leave it dirty,” she joked.

She thought the car was still in park and the emergency brake on. She got out to get supplies to clean the leather seats.

“When I turned around the car was going towards the pond,” said Dorothy. “I thought, ‘Oh, well, I’ll tell my husband.”

After that, Dorothy isn’t sure exactly what happened.

“There’s a place in between where I don’t remember,” she said. She thinks she might have been trying to go around the car and it knocked her down.

The next thing Dorothy knew she was sitting in a puddle of mud.

“I was like a little kid sitting in muddy shorts in a dirty puddle of water,” said Dorothy. “I saw the back wheels going over me. There was nothing I could do about it. I thought, ‘Well, that’s the end of my shopping for awhile.”

The wheels ran over the middle of both legs, but injured the left leg the worst.

“My husband came out there,” said Dorothy. “I said, ‘Honey, I can’t get up.”

Wilbert told her to sit there and he called 911.

“I want to compliment the ambulance,” said Dorothy. “They were there in no time. And they were so great to me.”

The ambulance took Dorothy to the Cameron hospital. She was in the Intensive Care Unit from Friday to Monday.

“The doctors say it was a miracle,” said Dorothy. “No broken bones. They took a Doppler test to see if there was nerve damage or blood clots. There were none. They can’t find a thing. Somebody was looking after me.”

Dorothy said she hasn’t been in too much pain either, mostly a burning sensation.

The doctors told her she may be able to go home Thursday.

“I’m in no hurry to get home,” said Dorothy. “Until they’re sure there’s no infection.

She said they’ve been great to her at the hospital: “They’ve given me a lot of attention. They’re beautiful people. They’ve waited on me hand and foot.”

Home Health will help Dorothy when she does get home.

Dorothy expects to recover quickly. “I’ll be throwing those walkers away,” she said.

Dorothy and Wilbert live on a farm north of Lake Viking on DD Highway. Her address is 20399 Nickel Avenue. She is in Room 126 at the hospital.

“I can’t believe what happened,” she said. “There was an angel waiting there for me.”