"In a sense I created a charade of how I would be," she says. Manning also had to live in a certain amount of denial about all that had happened to her. "Why not? What's the alternative? Have your pity party. She says that taught her the determination to get better. Manning is the daughter of a Marine and had worked for years in the unforgiving pressure cooker of Wall Street. Slowly but surely, she learned to walk and use her badly burned hands. "My mouth was so dry and parched and to feel it finally slide down my throat, I felt like I was quenching a thirst that had existed quite literally for months." "It was one of my great milestones when the doctor said I could have a piece of ice," Manning says. I never acknowledged a sense of feeling weak or incredibly fatigued, and I didn't dwell on the physical changes. How I would look to the world, how I would interact. In a sense, I created a charade of how I would be. "We were simply told let Lauren ask questions and answer those questions - don't volunteer information, don't jump ahead, don't go, 'By the way, something absolutely horrible has happened,'" Greg Manning says. Her husband Greg Manning waited a while before telling his wife how many of her colleagues at Cantor had died. She awoke weeks later, unable to talk or move very much. Manning's pain was so severe she had to be put in a coma to be treated. "Somebody with an injury as big as she had has compromise of the immune function, and so we are trying to get their burn wound healed as soon as possible so that they don't get infection in their wounds," Yurt says. Roger Yurt, who heads the burn center at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York, says that Manning's odds of survival were just 25 percent when she arrived. When the attacks occurred, Manning was a hard-charging 40-year-old Cantor Fitzgerald executive who'd just had her first child. I had to fight against an injury that threatened to kill me not over the period of only that day but for months to come." "It's a photo of strength," Manning says. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Unmeasured Strength Author Lauren Manning
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