Her Own Funeral
Whitney added to her story that it’s extremely creepy to have lived through your own funeral. “My family had a funeral for me. A lot of people wonder what will people say about you at your funeral…. My sister, Carly, told my entire campus that I didn’t shower enough. And one of my pastors back in Michigan, he told everyone who came to the funeral that I wasn’t very good at sports. So I learned all these things out. But how often you expect the person to come back and confront you about that”
Changing Her Life
Despite going through a horrific tragedy, Whitney says that her life had been changed. “Coming back to school was really hard. Nothing was making sense to me. My identity before the accident was no longer. I thought I was really social and funny, I had a lot of friends. But after April 26, those things changed.”