Speaking by phone Tuesday morning from Royal Oak's Beaumont Hospital, Andrews said she was running on a beach in Florida's Tampa Bay region, where her father lives, when her foot hit a rock under the sand.
"I lost my footing," she said, explaining the run was part of the training she had been doing for October's Detroit Free Press Marathon.
Andrews took it easy after that, but her back felt progressively worse until "on the day it was time to come home, I woke up and I couldn't walk because my right leg was numb."
