'He thought I was dead.'ĭeBolt was airlifted to Portland's Emanuel Hospital, where she went through five hours of surgery to place two titanium rods in her back.Ĭards, family photos and flowers line her hospital window. 'I heard him walking,' DeBolt said, recalling Hubbard's footsteps coming toward her as she lay face down. Finally, Toutle Valley resident Jeff Hubbard spotted her car on his way to work. Drifting in and out of consciousness for more than four hours, she could hear and see passing cars. No one heard.ĭisoriented, she attempted to drag herself toward the highway. She honked the horn, turned the radio up and shouted for help. The motion and impact jerked her tiny body out of her seat belt. The car left the roadway and flipped at least three times before landing right-side up in a field. Her children think Mommy looks like a Power Ranger.Īs DeBolt drove up the highway early April 1, coming home from a cleaning job in Longview, she swerved and slammed on the brakes to avoid the deer. 'It's like touching a warm corpse.'Ī shiny white body brace allows her to sit rigidly upright in a wheelchair. I just feel pain,' she said, pinching her tiny dangling legs. But sometimes the emotional and physical pain barge through. She broke two vertebrae and several ribs and punctured her lung.ĭressing is a struggle. In the early-morning hours of April 1, while driving on Spirit Lake Memorial Highway, she tried to avoid three deer.

Today, the resident of Silverlake, Cowlitz County, has steel rods in her back, can't control her bladder and faces a life of permanent paralysis from the waist down. I would have regretted it if I hadn't done it. I did my dream,' said Sharry Konopski DeBolt, 27, now married and the mother of two - Spencer, 6, and Siera, 4. At home in Longview, dozens of admirers lined up to have the 5-foot-2, 19-year-old blonde sign her autograph across her centerfold. As Playboy magazine's Miss August, she was hosted at Hugh Hefner's mansion. LONGVIEW, Cowlitz County - In 1987, Sharry Konopski had her fling in the limelight.

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