Accident victim wonders about good Samaritan
LAUREL HILL — Myria Jacobs cannot conjure up the face or any physical description of the kind stranger who held her and prayed with her and comforted her while waiting for emergency medical crews to arrive.
All she remembers is the voice.
“I remember her talking with me,” said the Fort Walton Beach woman whose motorcycle was hit by a car on her 33rd birthday.
Jacobs was thrown nearly 40 feet in the Nov. 10 accident at the intersection of Eglin Parkway and South Avenue. She was not wearing a helmet.
“She told me to stay calm, don’t move. I was praying to the Lord to keep his head on me and to keep me in his arms and not let me be paralyzed.
“She was praying with me,” she added.
Jacobs suffered a shattered pelvis and other broken bones in the wreck.
She is recovering from the accident at her parents’ home in Laurel Hill. She is bedridden for the next 45 days and faces nearly a year of rehabilitation.
But what she has been thinking about in recent days is that stranger’s voice and how much she wants to connect it with a face.
“I just think people like that need to be thanked and recognized,” she said.
“It helps to feel like someone cared,” she added. “I was so glad that someone was there thinking and caring about me and being willing to hold onto me and keep me calm.”