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Raising financial support for 17 yr old Tara Shetterly!
Hello to all! Our daughter Tara who was 16 at the time was involved in an automobile accident while riding as a passenger on October 14,2020 in Norfolk va o the corner of Olney rd and colley avenue. The vehicle Tara was in was struck by another vehicle on her passenger side , causeing the truck to roll over and Tara was violently thrown out of the closed back cab window. First responders carried her to Sentara Norfolk hospital, where it was determined that Tara sustained an aortic dissection( a tear) and had to have emergency surgery to stop the bleeding and damage to her heart with a mesh implant that stays in for life. She wasn’t able to move or feel below the waist and doctors told us after the X-rays that she had a spinal cord injury at T11 and T12 complete. The worst spinal cord injury he has seen in all of the 30 yrs he has been a surgeon the doctor says. 2 days later Tara has major back surgery to have a long rod placed where her spine is and fitted with a big plastic body cast she wore for 3 months. She was release from the hospital exactly one month after the accident on November 13,2020 and an ambulance brought her home where she is now still trying to heal and learn how to take care of her basic needs all over again in a different way now, without the use of her legs. The injury is permanent. Forever. But Tara says she has faith in God and his powers to heal and that she prays each day for recovery and for the lord to help her through these darkest days. Physical therapy is grueling and painful , outpatient several times a week. Specialist appointments and learning how to transfer from her wheel chair to a car or bath tub or bed or toilet. All day long requires her to learn how to transfer which takes a lot of upper body strength and practice.
Doctors have classified her as a complete paraplegic. Although she had many days of crying out in pain and being on pain medication and feeling so ill from side effects to some 10plus medications all day and night, Tara was still eager to finish her last year of high school early just as she had planned to do before her accident. 2/12 months after leaving the hospital Tara worked hard on her school work, made up for a month of missing work while being hospitalized and finished school in February just as her goal always had been. Our family is so proud of her. She’s filled out online applications for college, says she wants a career in the medical field and has discussed with our pastor what her calling in life might be now that she is paralyzed from the waist down. She’s been so emotionally strong and her outlook on her life now is not that of hopelessness and despair but instead, continuing to live because God has gifted her with more time to live. Everyday, although disabled, is such a blessing to have and she is determined to make her life count and be happy and to Live.
Tara will need so many things now and we need help raising the money to pay for them. In need of a stairlift and installation of one runs into thousands, in need of wheel chair ramps, copays on equipment etc... she can no longer urinate on her own and every few hours she must catheterize herself. She cannot live in the house we are currently in because it’s not handicap assessable and her wheel chair won’t fit thru the hall corner or bathroom/ bedroom doors so we must move in the next few weeks. The only place she can get her wheel chair around at is in the basement so she is stuck alone in the basement with no heat and away from her family until we can move out of here into an assecible home. The cost of everything is astronomical, and my heart just goes out to her because she’s such a good sweet kid.
Please know that even the smallest donation of just 1.00$ is very appreciated and there’s no donation too small.
If donations come in Tara and I will thank each person individually and post pictures and updates of what we were able to provide for her useing your contribution that you so graciously donated and her accomplishments and how she is comming along in her PT will be posted for people who may be concerned about how she’s comming along.
Please help giver her the start in life that she is wanting to give to society and of herself
She still sees the beauty in life, please show her that there’s people out there that care!- Thankyou The Shetterly family
Hello to all! Our daughter Tara who was 16 at the time was involved in an automobile accident while riding as a passenger on October 14,2020 in Norfolk va o the corner of Olney rd and colley avenue. The vehicle Tara was in was struck by another vehicle on her passenger side , causeing the truck to roll over and Tara was violently thrown out of the closed back cab window. First responders carried her to Sentara Norfolk hospital, where it was determined that Tara sustained an aortic dissection( a tear) and had to have emergency surgery to stop the bleeding and damage to her heart with a mesh implant that stays in for life. She wasn’t able to move or feel below the waist and doctors told us after the X-rays that she had a spinal cord injury at T11 and T12 complete. The worst spinal cord injury he has seen in all of the 30 yrs he has been a surgeon the doctor says. 2 days later Tara has major back surgery to have a long rod placed where her spine is and fitted with a big plastic body cast she wore for 3 months. She was release from the hospital exactly one month after the accident on November 13,2020 and an ambulance brought her home where she is now still trying to heal and learn how to take care of her basic needs all over again in a different way now, without the use of her legs. The injury is permanent. Forever. But Tara says she has faith in God and his powers to heal and that she prays each day for recovery and for the lord to help her through these darkest days. Physical therapy is grueling and painful , outpatient several times a week. Specialist appointments and learning how to transfer from her wheel chair to a car or bath tub or bed or toilet. All day long requires her to learn how to transfer which takes a lot of upper body strength and practice.
Doctors have classified her as a complete paraplegic. Although she had many days of crying out in pain and being on pain medication and feeling so ill from side effects to some 10plus medications all day and night, Tara was still eager to finish her last year of high school early just as she had planned to do before her accident. 2/12 months after leaving the hospital Tara worked hard on her school work, made up for a month of missing work while being hospitalized and finished school in February just as her goal always had been. Our family is so proud of her. She’s filled out online applications for college, says she wants a career in the medical field and has discussed with our pastor what her calling in life might be now that she is paralyzed from the waist down. She’s been so emotionally strong and her outlook on her life now is not that of hopelessness and despair but instead, continuing to live because God has gifted her with more time to live. Everyday, although disabled, is such a blessing to have and she is determined to make her life count and be happy and to Live.
Tara will need so many things now and we need help raising the money to pay for them. In need of a stairlift and installation of one runs into thousands, in need of wheel chair ramps, copays on equipment etc... she can no longer urinate on her own and every few hours she must catheterize herself. She cannot live in the house we are currently in because it’s not handicap assessable and her wheel chair won’t fit thru the hall corner or bathroom/ bedroom doors so we must move in the next few weeks. The only place she can get her wheel chair around at is in the basement so she is stuck alone in the basement with no heat and away from her family until we can move out of here into an assecible home. The cost of everything is astronomical, and my heart just goes out to her because she’s such a good sweet kid.
Please know that even the smallest donation of just 1.00$ is very appreciated and there’s no donation too small.
If donations come in Tara and I will thank each person individually and post pictures and updates of what we were able to provide for her useing your contribution that you so graciously donated and her accomplishments and how she is comming along in her PT will be posted for people who may be concerned about how she’s comming along.
Please help giver her the start in life that she is wanting to give to society and of herself
She still sees the beauty in life, please show her that there’s people out there that care!- Thankyou The Shetterly family
Organizer
Cynthia Shetterly
Organizer
Gloucester Courthouse, VA