AN Irish woman has instructed how she is “lucky to be alive” after sustaining horrific injuries in an electrical scooter accident in the United States three years ago.
Belfast native Karmen Curley, 21, was recognized with a bleed on the mind after a fall from a scooter whereas on holidays in California in May 2019.
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She additionally suffered a damaged collarbone, nostril and eye orbital bone and was left clocking up €13,000 a day in medical payments as she recovered in intensive care in UCLA Hospital, in Los Angeles.
Karmen, who was 18 on the time, spent practically three weeks in intensive care after hitting a pothole and being thrown over the entrance of the e-scooter
Speaking to the Belfast Telegraph in regards to the horror accident, Karmen instructed how she’s nonetheless present process assessments because of the injuries she incurred after being thrown over the entrance of an e-scooter.
She stated: “I used to be in hospital for digital camera assessments final 12 months and I’m nonetheless on remedy due to the accident.
“I get migraines rather a lot. The specialists aren’t certain what’s mistaken with me. They consider it could be put up traumatic epilepsy linked to the accident.
“My sister instructed me that as quickly as I got here spherical after the accident I began having seizures. I used to be seizuring (sic) in the ambulance on the best way to the hospital, no matter manner I hit my head.
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“The medics told me I was lucky to be alive. They said a lot of people with my type of bleed on the brain don’t survive so I feel very lucky. Even if I do have epilepsy, I’m glad that’s all I have.”
Karmen stated she would not need to see e-scooters legalised right here after studying first-hand of the risks related to using them – and added: “At the very least they should get helmets.”
The 21-year-old store employee stated she would not “remember much about” the day of the accident.
She defined: “Every time I woke up in hospital I couldn’t remember where I was.”
“The accident definitely affected my memory it’s still not the best. But I can’t complain. I’m very lucky to be here.”
Her sister Sian launched a fundraising marketing campaign to assist pay for the mounting medical payments as Karmen was with out medical insurance.
Speaking to Irish Sun on the time, Sian defined how the household have been nonetheless paying off their mum Karen’s funeral prices.
She stated: “We are still paying off the funeral costs of our Mum and with these mounting costs we don’t know how we’re going to cope.”
Karen, 47, suffered an aneurysm and died the 12 months earlier than the accident, whereas the sister’s additionally tragically misplaced their brother Saul in a automotive accident in 2014.
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