In 2018, Melissa Meszaros was walking to a Judas Priest gig with some friends in Portland, Oregan. She was 31-years-old and working as a publicist for music and comic books. They had plans to get pizza before heading to see Rob Halford and his gang tear through metal classics such as “Painkiller” and “You’ve Got Another Thing Comin'”.
“All of a sudden I woke up in the street,” Melissa tells me over the phone. She had been hit by a car while walking on a designated crosswalk. “That turned everything upside down really fast,” she remembers.
With blood pouring from her head, Melissa’s friends feared the worse. “I was in a confused state but the continuing mantra was, ‘Okay, I’ll go to the hospital but then I’ll go and see Judas Priest. I’ll get the MRI and then I’ll go to the concert.'”
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