Female football player faces long road to recovery after wreck

http://www.wsiltv.com/story/36504781/female-football-player-faces-long-road-to-recovery-after-wreck

JOHNSTON CITY, IL –  (Joe Ragusa, WSIL-TV.  Please click on the link for the full story.  Here is an excerpt below.)

Vickie Mueller is one of just a few female high school football players in the region, but now she’s just happy to be alive.

Mueller, 17, was on her way back from a bonfire early Sunday morning when she dozed off behind the wheel.

“I remember all of it,” Mueller said from her hospital bed in St. Louis. Her car flipped several times after she drove off Interstate 64 in Wayne County, gruesomely tearing apart her left arm.

“I woke up to blood everywhere and my car was upside down,” Mueller said. “I picked up the pieces of my arm and put them on my leg and was just trying to find a way to get out of my car