A 28-year-old Oregon woman who was helping a friend move a piano is now paralyzed from the waist down after the instrument fell on her in an accident in April, according to reports.
“She expects to never walk again. She has accepted the reality of her situation. “But she has an incredible spirit and an overall positive attitude, focusing on what she can do,” Rosie Hine, Danielle Drummond’s older sister, described in a crowdfunding campaign on the website GoFundMe in early May, the New York Post reported.
Last month, the woman from Cleveland, Ohio, who had recently been living in Oregon, was helping a friend move her piano when the latter lost her grip on the raised instrument, which fell directly onto her, Danielle Drummond told local Cleveland station WOIO. .
The American was then taken to hospital, where doctors discovered that the heavy piano had “severed” her spinal cord by fracturing her T11 and T12 vertebrae – the lowest of the thoracic spine – leaving her “paralyzed from the waist down,” according to what the newspaper reported. British Daily Mail. For the American newspaper.
“I try to keep my spirits up because I know this is my life now, but it's hard,” she told WOIO. Now I need a lot of physical therapy. “I need to rebuild my strength.”
The 28-year-old American, who had been living in a van with her dog Lotus, will now need to find accommodation, get help at home and begin her intensive rehabilitation.
The problem is that the woman won't have family in Oregon and can't see herself making the 37-hour drive, nearly 4,000 kilometers, in her current situation.
“I don't even know how I'm going to get home, let alone how to transport all the medical tools, and I don't feel like I can now take a car trip or such a long trip on a plane,” she said. I sighed to WOIO.
From afar, his sister was trying to raise money to help him find a place to stay and pay for his medical expenses.
“My little sister means everything to me, and I hope any help I receive will provide financial support for her future medical needs,” she said.
