Help Tara Walk Again
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Susan Steinthal, Maryann Clow, and Sheila Bugniazet are organizing this fundraiser on behalf of Tara and Chip Archer.
As injuries go, those that affect the spinal cord can be among the most catastrophic. In an instant, the harm is done, the legs go dead, the physical and emotional devastation begins.
For Tara Archer, her suffering began in January 2019 when an abnormal cluster of blood vessels lodged inside her spinal cord began to bleed, slowing killing the surrounding nerve cells. Diagnosed with a very rare condition called a cavernous malformation, the damage spread up and down the cord from the T5 to T8 vertebrae--leaving Tara paralyzed from the chest down.
The first neurologist, and several others since, told Tara she would never walk again. After insurance ran out for out-patient rehab, she was told, “go home and live your life”.
For this active 56-year-old wife and mother, who had recently retired from a corporate job after 30 years and was learning how to refurbish houses, her life now means getting back on her feet.
Two years’ post injury, enter a phenomenal opportunity for Tara to become only the fourth person in the country to participate in an exploratory pre-trial designed to bring body and brain back from the oblivion of paralysis.
This novel approach tests how applying non-surgical neuro-modulation technology to the spinal cord can generate sensation and movement below the level of injury. This process is combined with intensive physical therapy so that over time new neural pathways are created (a process called neuroplasticity) to help regain mobility.
Three others have gone through months of this treatment already with promising results.
Tara and her family will move to Los Angeles for the pre-trial. Our hope, beyond seeing Tara walk again, is that this approach is further validated and through your efforts becomes available to help others.
The Archers are so humbled by the outpouring of love and support from their friends, however the amount of this treatment is substantial. There are costs related to the research, rehabilitation, transportation, room and board, and other accommodations for daily living.
All donations will go directly to help Tara and her family. Any excess funds will be donated to spinal cord injury research and rehabilitation.
Together we can challenge the longstanding assumption that severe spinal cord injuries cause permanent, incurable paralysis.
Thank you very much for your support.
As injuries go, those that affect the spinal cord can be among the most catastrophic. In an instant, the harm is done, the legs go dead, the physical and emotional devastation begins.
For Tara Archer, her suffering began in January 2019 when an abnormal cluster of blood vessels lodged inside her spinal cord began to bleed, slowing killing the surrounding nerve cells. Diagnosed with a very rare condition called a cavernous malformation, the damage spread up and down the cord from the T5 to T8 vertebrae--leaving Tara paralyzed from the chest down.
The first neurologist, and several others since, told Tara she would never walk again. After insurance ran out for out-patient rehab, she was told, “go home and live your life”.
For this active 56-year-old wife and mother, who had recently retired from a corporate job after 30 years and was learning how to refurbish houses, her life now means getting back on her feet.
Two years’ post injury, enter a phenomenal opportunity for Tara to become only the fourth person in the country to participate in an exploratory pre-trial designed to bring body and brain back from the oblivion of paralysis.
This novel approach tests how applying non-surgical neuro-modulation technology to the spinal cord can generate sensation and movement below the level of injury. This process is combined with intensive physical therapy so that over time new neural pathways are created (a process called neuroplasticity) to help regain mobility.
Three others have gone through months of this treatment already with promising results.
Tara and her family will move to Los Angeles for the pre-trial. Our hope, beyond seeing Tara walk again, is that this approach is further validated and through your efforts becomes available to help others.
The Archers are so humbled by the outpouring of love and support from their friends, however the amount of this treatment is substantial. There are costs related to the research, rehabilitation, transportation, room and board, and other accommodations for daily living.
All donations will go directly to help Tara and her family. Any excess funds will be donated to spinal cord injury research and rehabilitation.
Together we can challenge the longstanding assumption that severe spinal cord injuries cause permanent, incurable paralysis.
Thank you very much for your support.
Organizer and beneficiary
Maryann Clow
Organizer
Harrison, NY
George Archer
Beneficiary