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Work has begun to move Sarah Stott home to Ottawa where she can begin her rehabilitation from a devastating train accident that cost her both legs and most of her fingers.
“I was so excited last night I barely slept,” Sarah’s mother, Shelley, said Thursday from Montreal.
Sarah — her mom calls her SarahJo, her birth name — was struck by a freight train on Dec. 8 when she took an illegal shortcut across the tracks in the Montreal borough of Verdun at about 3 a.m. She’s been in a Montreal hospital ever since, but learned Wednesday night that The Ottawa Hospital would arrange for her to be transferred home to Ottawa. The transfer had been hung up in red tape because Sarah’s OHIP coverage was cancelled when she moved to Montreal to work a little over a year ago.
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“SarahJo’s excited too,” Shelley said. “It just made her feel so much better, because I think she was going into a depression when she was told she couldn’t go to Ottawa. Now she’s even trying to feed herself.”
Doctors were forced to amputate Sarah’s right leg above the hip and her left leg below the knee after the accident. Her fingers were severely frostbitten while she lay in a ditch between the tracks for several hours before being found. Doctors eventually had to remove six of her fingers too, leaving her with just the thumb and index finger of each hand.
Hazel Harding, a communications adviser for the Ottawa Hospital, said Thursday the hospital would get in touch with the Stotts to begin the transfer process.
Sarah grew up in Ottawa and attended Norman Johnston Alternative School in Gloucester and Algonquin College, where she did community studies. When she is transferred to Ottawa, she hopes that she will be able to make visits home to her mom’s house in Limoges. Shelley has been in Montreal since the accident, caring for Sarah and staying in her apartment, whose rent she extended until the end of February.
A GoFundMe campaign in her name (www.gofundme.com/sarahjo) has raised more than $58,000.
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“I was so excited last night I barely slept,” Sarah’s mother, Shelley, said Thursday from Montreal.
Sarah — her mom calls her SarahJo, her birth name — was struck by a freight train on Dec. 8 when she took an illegal shortcut across the tracks in the Montreal borough of Verdun at about 3 a.m. She’s been in a Montreal hospital ever since, but learned Wednesday night that The Ottawa Hospital would arrange for her to be transferred home to Ottawa. The transfer had been hung up in red tape because Sarah’s OHIP coverage was cancelled when she moved to Montreal to work a little over a year ago.
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“SarahJo’s excited too,” Shelley said. “It just made her feel so much better, because I think she was going into a depression when she was told she couldn’t go to Ottawa. Now she’s even trying to feed herself.”
Doctors were forced to amputate Sarah’s right leg above the hip and her left leg below the knee after the accident. Her fingers were severely frostbitten while she lay in a ditch between the tracks for several hours before being found. Doctors eventually had to remove six of her fingers too, leaving her with just the thumb and index finger of each hand.
Hazel Harding, a communications adviser for the Ottawa Hospital, said Thursday the hospital would get in touch with the Stotts to begin the transfer process.
Sarah grew up in Ottawa and attended Norman Johnston Alternative School in Gloucester and Algonquin College, where she did community studies. When she is transferred to Ottawa, she hopes that she will be able to make visits home to her mom’s house in Limoges. Shelley has been in Montreal since the accident, caring for Sarah and staying in her apartment, whose rent she extended until the end of February.
A GoFundMe campaign in her name (www.gofundme.com/sarahjo) has raised more than $58,000.
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