EXCLUSIVE: Asiyah Mahoney continues to recover in the US
Speaking with Virgin Islands News Online in an exclusive interview today May 15, 2014, her husband Frank Mahoney gave an update on her treatment and rehabilitation.
He explained that though Asiyah has come a far way since being airlifted from the Virgin Islands to the United States following the accident, she still has a long way to go.
Mrs Mahoney had been taking her morning walk at the time of the accident – a hit and run at Zion Hill at around 5.30 am.
“She is doing better so we’re happy for that,” Frank Mahoney told this news site.
“[After] the accident on February 1, 2014, she was airlifted to Broward Health in Fort Lauderdale Florida where she spent about a month, pretty much paralysed,” said Mahoney.
“She couldn’t really move her arms, her legs…[she had a] feeding tube, the whole nine [yards],” he said.
“They got her stabilized and were able to get her well enough to get her over to a rehab centre which was NYU Rusk Institute in New York City and she had to be air-dashed from Miami. At the time she was still somewhat paralyzed…couldn’t move her arms, couldn’t move her legs, couldn’t do much for herself,” he said.
Mahoney said that the six weeks or so that she spent at Rusk is what helped get her through the rehabilitation. He said that now she is doing outpatient care there where she goes in three days out of the week.
“She has a wheelchair and a walking stick and she is learning to walk again,” he said.
“She did suffer a brain injury with this accident, so her long term seems to be ok but her short term has been affected,” Mahoney said.
Asked when his wife will be coming home, Mahoney said, “It’s hard to say…we’re hoping by August. It is something that the doctors [must] decide. Where she is at right now is one of the better facilities in the US. When you’re treating a brain injury it takes certain types of specialists and facilities which we don’t have in the BVI,” he said.
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