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Sarah Stott’s recovery from a horrible train accident last December has been remarkable, her mother Shelley said this weekend, defying doctors’ predictions at each step along the way.
“When she was admitted (to the rehabilitation centre) at the beginning of March, they said she’d be there full-time for a year-and-a-half. And she was home at the end of June and is now at the rehab centre three days a week as an outpatient. And they said she wouldn’t be able to walk until December, but once she got her legs she started walking right away.
“But I knew that would be the case with Sarah J. She’s a determined girl, and once she has her mind set, that’s it. I tell people that not even a train can stop her.”
It was a train, of course, that did its level best last December in Montreal, when Sarah was struck by a freight engine late one night while taking a short cut home through a Verdun train yard. As a result of the accident and ensuing three to four hours spent in the cold, the 23-year-old Limoges resident lost her entire right leg, up to and including the hip; her left leg just below the knee; and most of her fingers.
“The doctors said they can’t explain why she was still living after the accident,” added Shelley. “She should have been dead.
“But she’s become a real inspiration to everyone at the rehab centre. She was even playing rugby with some of the men there. She was the only woman doing that.”
Yet while Sarah’s recovery has so far been barely short of miraculous, the road she faces is a long and extremely expensive one. With costly prosthetics — Sarah’s legs, Shelley says, are about $100,000 each — and the added expenses of such necessities as wheelchairs, vehicle and house retrofitting and access ramps, Shelly, a financial adviser with CIBC, estimates that the injury will cost $5 million over her daughter’s lifetime.
A fundraiser in April brought in about $35,000. This Thursday, July 30, another is taking place at the Lone Star Texas Grill at 1211 Lemieux St. Officially called “Sarah Stott Journey,” the event is being organized by Luc Tremblay, drummer for the local band The Raykens, who will be performing.
For Tremblay, the decision to put on the event was an easy one, and one that really does pay it forward: three years ago when he was going through a separation and divorce, it was Shelley Stott, at the CIBC where he banks, who helped him with his finances.
“She even stayed late a couple of hours on her own time to help me out,” he recalls. “She helped me get back on my feet; now I want to help do the same for her and Sarah.”
Sarah Stott Journey gets underway at 7 p.m. on Thursday at the Lone Star Texas Grill at 1211 Lemieux St. Tickets are $10 each and available in advance at the Lone Star, or at the door Thursday night.
bdeachman@ottawacitizen.com
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“When she was admitted (to the rehabilitation centre) at the beginning of March, they said she’d be there full-time for a year-and-a-half. And she was home at the end of June and is now at the rehab centre three days a week as an outpatient. And they said she wouldn’t be able to walk until December, but once she got her legs she started walking right away.
“But I knew that would be the case with Sarah J. She’s a determined girl, and once she has her mind set, that’s it. I tell people that not even a train can stop her.”
It was a train, of course, that did its level best last December in Montreal, when Sarah was struck by a freight engine late one night while taking a short cut home through a Verdun train yard. As a result of the accident and ensuing three to four hours spent in the cold, the 23-year-old Limoges resident lost her entire right leg, up to and including the hip; her left leg just below the knee; and most of her fingers.
“The doctors said they can’t explain why she was still living after the accident,” added Shelley. “She should have been dead.
“But she’s become a real inspiration to everyone at the rehab centre. She was even playing rugby with some of the men there. She was the only woman doing that.”
Yet while Sarah’s recovery has so far been barely short of miraculous, the road she faces is a long and extremely expensive one. With costly prosthetics — Sarah’s legs, Shelley says, are about $100,000 each — and the added expenses of such necessities as wheelchairs, vehicle and house retrofitting and access ramps, Shelly, a financial adviser with CIBC, estimates that the injury will cost $5 million over her daughter’s lifetime.
A fundraiser in April brought in about $35,000. This Thursday, July 30, another is taking place at the Lone Star Texas Grill at 1211 Lemieux St. Officially called “Sarah Stott Journey,” the event is being organized by Luc Tremblay, drummer for the local band The Raykens, who will be performing.
For Tremblay, the decision to put on the event was an easy one, and one that really does pay it forward: three years ago when he was going through a separation and divorce, it was Shelley Stott, at the CIBC where he banks, who helped him with his finances.
“She even stayed late a couple of hours on her own time to help me out,” he recalls. “She helped me get back on my feet; now I want to help do the same for her and Sarah.”
Sarah Stott Journey gets underway at 7 p.m. on Thursday at the Lone Star Texas Grill at 1211 Lemieux St. Tickets are $10 each and available in advance at the Lone Star, or at the door Thursday night.
bdeachman@ottawacitizen.com
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