An Oregon woman — hoping for a fresh start in a new state — is paralyzed from the waist down after she was brutally crushed by a piano in a freak accident last month. Danielle Drummond, 28, was moving the piano when her friend she’d been helping lost her grip and dropped the “whole upright piano” on top of her, WOIO reported . Drummond, who had just recently moved to the Beaver State from Ohio, was rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery, where doctors discovered the accident “severed” her spinal cord and left her “paralyzed from the waist down.
” “I’m trying to keep like in high spirits because I know this is my life now, but it’s hard,” she told the outlet. “As of right now, I need a lot more physical therapy. I need to rebuild my strength.
” Following the injury, Drummond said she would need extensive rehab and a home health aide — presenting more difficulties since she was living in her van with her dog Lotus. The 28-year-old has no family in Oregon to care for her and is currently looking for a place to live. Returning home to her native Cleveland also seems impossible in her current condition.
“I don’t even know like how I would get home, let alone like how to transfer all the medical stuff, and I don’t feel like I’m able right now to do like that far of a car ride or a trip in an airplane,” Drummond told the outlet. Her older sister, Rosie Hayne, has set up a GoFundMe to help her loved one find a place to live and pay for he.
