Help Patti Osburn Recover
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Patricia Osburn is a sunny, vibrant and energetic woman whose positive outlook on life is infectious to anyone who knows her. She's a doting mother and adoring grandmother. I know because she's my sister's mother-in-law and nana to my niece, Lily, and nephew, Ben, and her newest granddaughter, Hannah. She makes those around her feel better about themselves. A former nurse, caring for others is in her blood. She toasts her late husband of 44 years, John, with a glass of Malbec at dinner. Her laugh lights up a room. She's cool. Her friends and family call her Patti.
But her life took a tragic turn in an instant on Nov. 28 while she was on her daily morning walk with her dog, Dash. Patti slipped on a patch of ice while crossing the road and fell backward, fracturing her T4 vertebra in the middle of her spinal column. She didn’t know it yet, but she had lost the use of her legs forever.
Mercifully, a passerby came to her aid. Patti was taken to a local hospital near her home in Coldwater, Ontario, and later that day was airlifted to Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, where she underwent emergency surgery. Doctors implanted a steel rod to stabilize her spinal column, but they couldn’t repair the nerves that were severed when her vertebra shattered.
Spinal cord injuries are classified A to E, with A being the most severe. Patti's injury has been classified a B. She has no motor function and limited sensory function below the mid-chest. Doctors have since informed her that she is paraplegic.
True to form, Patti is in good spirits. But a long road to recovery and rehabilitation lies ahead, as do myriad expenses to ensure she can move on with her life, spreading joy and love and her cool vibe to her friends and family. Doctors plan by mid-month to relocate Patti to the Lyndhurst Centre at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, where she will spend anywhere from six weeks to six months adjusting to her new reality.
Insurance, through the Ontario Health Insurance Plan, will cover her medical expenses, but not all of the costs after her physical rehabilitation – the wheelchair she'll need, renovations to her home, retrofitting her vehicle, in-home assistance or long-term care. The Dana and Christopher Reeve Foundation estimate the first-year cost of paraplegia to be $518,000 , with yearly expenses of roughly $69,000 thereafter.
Please pray for Patti and consider pulling together for a woman who has meant so much to so many.
THIS CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN SET UP TO ENSURE THAT PATTI HAS EXCLUSIVE ACCESS TO ALL FUNDS RAISED.
But her life took a tragic turn in an instant on Nov. 28 while she was on her daily morning walk with her dog, Dash. Patti slipped on a patch of ice while crossing the road and fell backward, fracturing her T4 vertebra in the middle of her spinal column. She didn’t know it yet, but she had lost the use of her legs forever.
Mercifully, a passerby came to her aid. Patti was taken to a local hospital near her home in Coldwater, Ontario, and later that day was airlifted to Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, where she underwent emergency surgery. Doctors implanted a steel rod to stabilize her spinal column, but they couldn’t repair the nerves that were severed when her vertebra shattered.
Spinal cord injuries are classified A to E, with A being the most severe. Patti's injury has been classified a B. She has no motor function and limited sensory function below the mid-chest. Doctors have since informed her that she is paraplegic.
True to form, Patti is in good spirits. But a long road to recovery and rehabilitation lies ahead, as do myriad expenses to ensure she can move on with her life, spreading joy and love and her cool vibe to her friends and family. Doctors plan by mid-month to relocate Patti to the Lyndhurst Centre at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, where she will spend anywhere from six weeks to six months adjusting to her new reality.
Insurance, through the Ontario Health Insurance Plan, will cover her medical expenses, but not all of the costs after her physical rehabilitation – the wheelchair she'll need, renovations to her home, retrofitting her vehicle, in-home assistance or long-term care. The Dana and Christopher Reeve Foundation estimate the first-year cost of paraplegia to be $518,000 , with yearly expenses of roughly $69,000 thereafter.
Please pray for Patti and consider pulling together for a woman who has meant so much to so many.
THIS CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN SET UP TO ENSURE THAT PATTI HAS EXCLUSIVE ACCESS TO ALL FUNDS RAISED.
Organizer and beneficiary
David Andreatta
Organizer
Fairport, NY
Patricia Osburn
Beneficiary