Shallowater's Emie Lusk leads relay to state 2 months after family crash
Emie Lusk helped extend Shallowater's streak in the mile relay, providing a bright spot for her family months after they were in a violent auto crash.
SHALLOWATER — Emie Lusk didn't know what to think when she got the news. Her parents and brother were involved in a head-on collision on the rural West Texas roads heading home from watching Lusk and Shallowater girls basketball play in the state championship. "I got the call, and it's just like my world flipped upside down," Lusk said, "because I didn't know what (their conditions) were like.
Because they didn't really give me any details. " The details proved to be a laundry list of injuries, particularly for Emie's dad. Jay Lusk underwent emergency surgery to repair a baseball-sized tear in his diaphragm, collapsed lung and placement of his liver and gallbladder.
He also fractured a vertebrae and had a brain bleed. Jay Lusk spent about a week at a San Angelo hospital after the March 6 crash north of Eden. His wife, L.
J. , broke her sternum, wrist and multiple ribs. Cooper, Emie's older brother, is seeking evaluation for a knee injury.
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