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A Bay Area woman has been left partly paralyzed after a huge tree limb hit her while she was sitting outside knitting.
Jasmine Mayer, 22, suffered life-threatening injuries andis now paralyzedfrom the waist down afterthe freak accidentin Santa Rosa during a storm last week, theChroniclereported.
It happened outside the Steele Lane Elementary School where emergency crews rushed to the scene and treated her, before she was taken to UC Davis Medical Center.
Mayer’s father Andy said his daughter “was knitting and talking to her friend, and the branch came right down on them.”
“We’ve talked about it since. There’s no anger. There’s no drunk driver. It’s just an unimaginable incident,” Andy told the outlet.
“She is currently healing from a severe spinal cord injury, fractured vertebrae and broken and bruised ribs,” per the GoFundMe, which credited the “emergency services, and the expertise of surgeons” who saved her life and stabilized her.
Mayer’s father describes his daughter’s injuries as “catastrophic.”
“She’s paralyzed from the waist down. Time will tell,” he said. “I’m hopeful. She’s hopeful. She’s going to work hard on her recovery.”
The latest message on the GoFundMe page does sound more hopeful, revealing that she’s beginning to get some feeling back.
Source: California Post – Breaking California News, Photos & Videos
