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The day I died was the perfect New England fall morning.
我去世的這天是個完美的新英格蘭的秋日的早晨。
It was 11 a.m. on Saturday, October 8, 2011, when I set out on the 12-mile bike ride home from work along the Connecticut shoreline.
這天是2011年10月8日，周六上午十一點，當時我正我沿著康涅狄格的海岸線騎車12英里回家。
The sun was brilliant against the blue sky, and the leaves were starting to change colors. It was an exciting time for me.
天空蔚藍，陽光燦爛。樹葉也開始變色。這是個令我激動的時刻。
I loved my job as a program manager at PeaceJam, an organization that educates kids about leaders in the peace movement.
我喜歡自己在PeaceJam公司的項目管理工作，PeaceJam是一家教育孩子關于和平運動領袖的組織。
At home, my husband of one year, Sean, and I were trying to have a baby.
我和丈夫肖恩結婚一年，正試圖懷上一個寶寶。
Sean, a mail carrier, was working, so I'd made plans with a friend for a long ride later that afternoon.
肖恩是一個郵遞員，當時他正在工作。所以那天下午晚些時候我約了朋友一塊長途騎行。
But I would never get to meet up with her. As I settled into the right-hand lane of a busy avenue, a freight truck turned in my direction from a side street.
但是，我再也不能和她碰面。當我在一條繁忙大街的右車道上停下來時，一輛貨車從一條小街向我駛來。
He slowed at the corner. We made eye contact. Then, for reasons I'll never know, he accelerated. There was nothing I could do but scream.
他在角落處慢了下來。我們目光對視。然后，出于我永遠也不會知道的原因，他加速了。除了尖叫我什么事情也做不了。
The giant truck knocked me down onto my left side; my legs got tangled up with my bike.
大卡車把我撞到了左邊；我的腿和自行車纏在了一起。
I heard snapping and grinding as his front tires drove over me. I felt my insides cracking when his back tires did the same.
我聽到他的前輪從我身上碾過時發出噼啪聲和刺耳的聲音。當他的后輪同樣碾過時，我感到我的內臟在裂開。
People came rushing from all directions as the truck rumbled away. "Oh my God!" I heard. "She's alive."
卡車隆隆開走時，人們從四面八方涌來。“哦，我的上帝！”我聽到。“她還活著。”
I raised my head just enough to see something bright white and yellow protruding from my leg: bone, tendons, and fatty cells.
我抬起頭，剛好看到我腿上有個亮白色和黃色的東西：骨頭、肌腱和脂肪細胞。
The skin had peeled right off most of the lower half of my body, along with my clothing.
我下半身的皮膚和衣服都剝落了。
There wasn't any normal flesh to see. My abdomen was opened up, and I was bleeding out.
我整個身體都沒有一塊正常的地方。我的腹部開了一個口子，血流不止。
A woman with blond hair appeared and sat in the road with me, holding my head. One man stopped the fleeing truck.
一個金發女人出現在了路上，她坐在了我邊上，按著我的頭。一個男人把疾馳的卡車停了下來。
Another ran over carrying an emergency heat blanket from a kit he had in his car.
另外一個人從自己車里的工具箱里拿了一個緊急熱毯，跑了過來。
He began screaming out orders: "YOU, STOP TRAFFIC. YOU, HOLD HER HEAD STILL. YOU, COVER HER ABDOMEN WITH THIS. Holy... God.
他開始尖叫著發號施令：“你，讓交通停下來。你，按住她的頭。你，用這個蓋住她的腹部。我的天啊。
Hang in there, girl. Hang in there." The paramedics arrived—a team of three women.
堅持住，姑娘。堅持下去。”一個由三個女人組成的醫務小組趕到了。
They began by rolling my body onto a backboard. Later I'd learn that for one of them, it was her first day on the job. In fact, I was her very first call.
他們先把我的身體移到板子上。后來我才知道，對其中一個來說，這是她第一天上班。事實上，我的受傷電話是她接到的第一個電話。
