QuoteOn March 20, 1990, Estefan was on a tour bus near Scranton, Pennsylvania, bound for a concert in Syracuse. The singer was stretched out on a bunk, asleep, while the bus was stopped in traffic backed up behind a jackknifed truck, when a truck plowed into the back of the bus. Estefan was thrown from her bunk and slammed into the middle of the bus, breaking her vertebrae. Emilio and Nayib, who was nine at the time, suffered minor injuries. She was rushed to the Scranton Community Medical Center, where doctors stabilized her back, and then she was flown via helicopter to the Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopaedic Institute in New York City, where surgeons used titanium rods to align her vertebra and fuse them.
Months of difficult recovery followed, and Estefan underwent endless hours of physical therapy for over a year. At first, she had great difficulty with even simple tasks, such as brushing her teeth, but she persevered against the pain
Read more: Gloria Estefan: Singer, Songwriter - Accident Changed Life - Album, Music, Emilio, and Bus - JRank Articles http://biography.jrank.org/pages/3089/Estefan-Gloria-Singer-Songwriter-Accident-Changed-Life.html#ixzz4KksREjoe
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"Coming Out of The Dark" :'(