It's been almost two months since a young woman from Woodstock was struck by lightning at the Country Thunder Music Festival in Kenosha.
She's made a remarkable recovery since that terrible night in July - and is now talking for the first time about what happened.
"Coming here, I felt a little weird, nervous because I didn't know how I would react," Brittney Prehn said. "But it didn't phase me. I checked the weather a bunch, but I wasn't too nervous."
And checking the weather is something Prehn does all the time now, ever since the night of July 20.
She was on the phone at the time, trying to find her friends--and has photos of the charred remains of her smartphone.
"I got directly hit but the phone took part of the hit and that's why my phone got thrown and there are two holes in the ground," Prehn said.
She was in intensive care for about a week, with fractures in her head, bleeding in her brain, and severe burns.
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She still has trouble hearing and walking, but says the ordeal has changed her outlook on life.
"I see people walk around all upset and miserable," she said. "You're alive. You're here. You can hear. You can walk. You can see. I don't know. One day you could get hit by lightning and your whole world can be changed."
Prehn's mom's co-workers are planning a fundraiser to help with medical bills this Saturday at Niko's Red Mill Tavern in her hometown of Woodstock from 1 to 6 p.m.
