It was the Fourth of July. They should have been celebrating, instead, Bailey’s family was hoping for a miracle.
It was July 4, 2022.
It was supposed to be a fun day for the family.
It all came crashing down when Bailey saw a car heading straight for her and her two young children.
Acting on instinct, she pushed them out of the way and got pinned down by the car.
“Honestly don’t really know how it happened, what happened,” Bailey Rogers recalled. “I just saw a car coming at my kids, and I pushed them out of the way, and I got taken under the car.”
Bailey was also 34 weeks pregnant at that time.
All she could think about was that her baby had passed.
The paramedics were able to remove her from under the car and brought to IU Union Hospital in Terre Haute, Indiana.
The doctors performed an emergency C-section to save her baby.
Her story isn’t over yet though.
Bailey had to be flown to IU Methodist Hospital in downtown Indianapolis to save her life this time.
“My femur was completely snapped in two,” Bailey shared. “I had a hip dislocation, my pelvis, my pelvic ring, my hip ball joint, it was all completely shattered.”
If it was any other person, they would most likely not have made it.
Bailey was a different case because she was pregnant.
“They told me, basically, if I wasn’t pregnant, I wouldn’t have made it because your bones are so much more durable when you’re pregnant,” Bailey explained.
That’s why Bailey calls her youngest child her miracle baby.
She literally saved her mom and kept her alive.
“The basic story is that pregnancy is a good state for the bones. When you’re pregnant, you have very high levels of estrogen, and estrogen is very good for building bones,” Dr. Jessica Rachel Starr, an endocrinologist MD who specializes in bone health and metabolic bone disease, explained.
What Bailey went through wasn’t easy and she had to fight for her life, mostly away from her family.
She pushed through though and she fought every day to be able to walk and return to her family.
Three girls depended on her to stay alive and keep walking.
Thankfully, she had the best team to help her recover.
A year later, she is back in Indianapolis for a momentous day.
Before that happens though, she paid a visit to the people who helped her recover, the medical team at IU Methodist Hospital.
They were so shocked to see her walking.
“I had never seen her walk before,” Jennifer Mink, a registered nurse at IU Methodist, said. “To know what she’s been through and to see how well she’s doing now, it blows me away, but it doesn’t surprise me.”
Bailey is also back in Indianapolis because she has been given a special honor.
She will deliver the green flag during the opening ceremony of the Indy 500.
She accepted the honor so she can also share her story of hope and perseverance.
“I could’ve been not alive, but I’m here now, and I’m telling my story and telling people, ‘Don’t ever give up,'” Bailey said.
Learn more about Bailey’s story when you watch the video below.
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