AP Photo / Courtesy of Alfred Colonese
This April 18 photo shows from left, Alfred Colonese, Mick Henn, Dale Abbott, First Lady Michelle Obama, Heather Abbott, Jason Geremia, and Michelle Dalrymple at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Heather Abbott was scrambling to get off the sidewalk when the force of the second blast blew her through the restaurant doorway at the Boston Marathon.
Heather Abbott, the Newport woman who was injured in the Boston Marathon bombings, will speak to the media Thursday afternoon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
Dr. Eric Bluman, an orthopedic surgeon at BWH who has cared for Abbott, will also speak.
Abbott, 38, underwent a below-the-knee amputation earlier this week. On the day of the marathon, she attended the Boston Red Sox game and then gathered with friends at a pub near the finish line. The bomb went off while she was in a line of people outside the pub, waiting to have her ID checked.
The 2:30 p.m. press conference will be webcast at Partners Healthcare's webiste