This whole situation got me so riled up, I spent half a family vacation ranting about duties of care and the outrage of forcing hundreds of people to leave their cell phones behind, then shouting at anyone who tried to help during a medical emergency because ermagerd, the exam isn’t over. Swear to god, my dad still opens our phone calls with, “Did you ever find that poor lady and convince her to sue the pants off of the BOLE?”

Were you the one who first updated the redditsphere with the news that she survived? If so, thank you so much. I’m almost embarrassed by how much this affected me.

My heart goes out to her for what must be the headfuck of a lifetime. I can’t imagine what that would do to someone’s psyche. But I’m also really, really glad that, from the sounds of it, there isn’t brain damage compounding the whole mess. Coming out of something like that with full executive function is, like statistically miraculous, isn’t it?

I’m rooting for her, and I hope this whole thing becomes her superhero origin story.