‘What Happened to Tuesday?;’ Paulding County teen makes recovery after car accident

Tom Jones
·2 min read

A Paulding County teen who had two brain surgeries after she was hit by a car is making a miraculous recovery.

Shanna Thomas, the mother of 15-year-old Kendall Thomas, has written a book about her daughter’s injuries and how she had to learn to navigate their new life after the incident.

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Meanwhile, doctors didn’t think Kendall could go to concerts and football games. But Kendall is proving them wrong.

Shanna Thomas posted a video on social media where Kendall is pointing at with whiteboard with words like “tragedy” to “Triumph.” Then, a copy of Thomas’ new book is revealed.

Kendall is doing so well that she recently attended the Taylor Swift concert at Mercedes Benz Stadium. Kendall is even back in school. “She went back to school in December,” her mother said.

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At North Paulding high school last year, Channel 2′s Tom Jones reported that a driver hit Kendall in the parking lot. She had to have two brain surgeries and was in the ICU for months. Kendall has a long way to go, but she has also come a long way.

“Just fulfilled with joy. Just thinking God every day. Every minute. Every hour,” her father, Kelvin Thomas, told Jones.

Now Kendall’s mother has written a book called, “What Happened to Tuesday?”

Kendall’s mother told Jones that was the name of the book since Kendall was hurt on a Tuesday. “And Tuesday forever changed my life and everybody else’s life,” Shanna Thomas explained.

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The book chronicles what happened and how Thomas managed to handle it all. She also wants people to get from the book tragedy occurs in life. No matter what, she says, keep going.

“What I’m saying here can encourage you...that if I can make it through this, you can make it through what you’re going through as well,” she said.

The book “What Happened to Tuesday?” was just released today on a Tuesday.

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