From Hidden Brain Media, I'm Shankarvedantin. This is my unsung hero,

stories where one person reached out to help another in a time of need.

My story is about a group of unsung heroes.

He just pulled up a chair and we talked, I'd say for about 90 minutes or

I don't know if she really understands or appreciates the full impact that she's had in my life and still continues to have.

Today's story comes from Francis Brissy.

In 2023, Francis was coming home from a family funeral.

She was in the car with her son, his wife, and her three grandkids going down I-95 in

Georgia.

All of a sudden, they collided with a large truck that was driving erratically.

Francis wasn't wearing her seat belt, so she hurtled forward and broke through the windshield.

She rebounded back into the lap of her daughter-in-law whose leg was broken in the crash.

They were both in great pain. That's when her unsung hero arrived, a truck driver named Terry.

I remember hearing his voice tell my daughter-in-law,

I'm going to hold her off your leg to give you some relief. I remember he

didn't say that. And I felt him and it was like it was a comfort hold of me there.

There was somebody comfortable holding me and I felt okay. So they

got me out of the vehicle, got an ambulance and they got all of us to the hospital we went to a trauma center in

Jacksonville. I stayed there for 21 days. It was the hardest 21 days of my life.

And I got home and I got the police report and I said, you know, I'm going to call some of these witnesses. I really need to know what happened. I couldn't remember a whole lot.

When I heard his voice on the phone it was just as much comfort as it was that day.

And he told me everything I said at the accident. He knew my kids names. He knew my mother's name. He knew everything I had just

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