Good Morning Angels (Karien Colyn)
Request from:
Corné Farmer
Request for:
Karien Colyn
Angel:
Anria van Heerden from The Caring Daisies
Sponsoring:
The Caring Daisies will help Karien with the monthly short fall for her treatment for the next 10 months - that's a total of R74 000,00 for her treatment for the next year to help her walk again!
Background:
Karien Colyn and her family went on holiday in Namibia in December 2011. On the 30th, the family stopped at the side of the road for a picnic. It was a typical family affair: grandparents, parents ant two year son - all on holiday together. After the picnic, the family packed up and were back on the road. Before they could all even put their safety belts back on, their bakkie rolled. Everybody sustained only slight injuries, not but Karien. Her L1 vertebra "exploded" on impact and - without any feeling from the waist down, she was evacuated back to SA per helicopter. It was the end of 2011 and the beginning of many months in hospital. Karien was released from hospital on 21st of April - and she's been working hard to regain the ability to walk again. With the right help and treatment, she has made remarkable progress. With the help of an "Ekso" device, she's already walked 2200 paces - and there is hope that she would be able to walk, without the Ekso, soon ... that is if she can find the funds to keep up the therapy that has brought her this far ...
Example of the Ekso device.
Original request:
Karien Colyn was op 30 December 2011 in ‘n motor-ongeluk op ‘n grondpad in Namibië terwyl hulle op vakansie was. Die bakkie het gerol. Net voor die ongeluk het hulle gestop en piekniek gehou en nie weer hulle veiligheidsgordels aangehad nie. Die oupa en Karien se 2-jarige seuntjie het nie erge beserings gehad nie en hy moes die ouma, Karien, haar man en die seuntjie in sy karstoeltjie onder ‘n boom insleep en toemaak met ‘n seil. Hy het toe die grondpad uitstap opsoek na iemand om hulle te help. Hulle is van Namibië af ge-airvac en sy was tot en met 21 April 2012 in die hospitaal met beserings. Haar L1 rugwerwel het gebars en die senuwee is beseer. Omdat die werwel nie heeltemal af is nie, kan hulle nie sê of sy weer kan of wanneer sy gaan kan loop nie.
Die afgelope twee jaar het sy met oefening nou al gevoel in haar linkerbeen en boude en het sy ook gevoel onder haar voete en diepdruk-gevoel begin terugkom in haar regterbeen. Sy loop nou al van Julie maand met die “Ekso” en het merkwaardige spier-reaksie en gevoel begin wen deur net die spiere te aktiveer en muscle memory weer op te bou. Sy loop nou al 2200 tree met die “Ekso” en ons hoop een van die dae daarsonder!
Discovery dek ongelukkig nog nie die hele rekening nie en ons is R 7200 per maand te kort. Dis die rede hoekom ons by die Daisies kom aanklop vir hulp.
Groete,
Corné