An Irishwoman has mentioned she is ‘lucky to be alive’ almost three years after sustaining important accidents in an electrical scooter crash.
Karmen Curley, 21, from Belfast, was identified with a bleed on the mind after falling from her e-scooter whereas on vacation in California in May 2019.
Karmen additionally broke her collarbone, nostril and eye orbital bone and was hit with in depth medical payments as she recovered on the UCLA Hospital in Los Angeles.
She spent almost three weeks in intensive care after hitting a pothole and being thrown over the entrance of the e-scooter, and her sister Sian arrange a GoFundMe web page within the hopes of protecting the price of Karmen’s remedy.
Karmen, who was 18 on the time, advised the Belfast Telegraph that she continues to be present process assessments to observe accidents she incurred within the incident.
‘I was in hospital for camera tests last year and I’m nonetheless on medicine due to the accident,’ she advised the publication.
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‘I get migraines a lot. The experts aren’t certain what’s fallacious with me. They consider it might be submit traumatic epilepsy linked to the accident.
‘My sister advised me that as quickly as I got here spherical after the accident I began having seizures. I used to be seizuring [sic] within the ambulance on the way in which to the hospital, no matter approach I hit my head.
‘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 really feel very fortunate. Even if I do have epilepsy, I’m glad that’s all I’ve.’
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Karmen mentioned she doesn’t bear in mind a lot concerning the day of the accident and that she couldn’t bear in mind the place she was each time she wakened within the hospital.
She added that the accident had undoubtedly affected her reminiscence, which is ‘still not the best’, however that she couldn’t complain as she is ‘very lucky to be here’.