Paralysed gunshot victim will receive operation

The family of twenty-three year old Lisa Garoy is hoping that on Monday doctors at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital will be able to perform the spinal surgery that will help the young mother to sit up for the first time in three weeks. Since Cynthia Gentle started appealing for financial assistance to get the medical treatment her daughter needs, the family has received an outpouring of support from people and businesses all across the country. It started on Tuesday afternoon with a two thousand dollar donation from the National Fishermen’s Co-op. That contribution was followed on Wednesday by an appeal on Love FM’s morning talk show that brought in pledges totalling thirteen thousand dollars. Today, we spoke to both Gentle and Garoy who expressed their sincere gratitude for the public’s generosity. In addition, despite the medical prognosis that Lisa Garoy will remain a paraplegic, the family says she has been moving her right leg and toes.

Lisa Garoy, Gunshot victim
?I feel good. I want to thank all the people that help me get the money for the operation. So hopefully soon I can go home to my kids them.?

Jacqueline Woods
?Are you hopeful that one day you will be able to walk??

Lisa Garoy
?Yes.?

Cynthia Gentle, Mother
?I feel good, I want come and hug up she and tell her that everything will be okay because we get the money and she will get the operation either Monday?I think Monday though. I feel glad and I noh want to forget the opening of the pledge again that was a God send from the National Fishermen Cooperative. I want to say thanks to the guys again.?

?From the day when the doctor call me and tell me that she would be paralysed, I think the doctor expect fi I cry, but I never cry because I nevah feel it. And the next thing again, God spared her life… even if she is crippled, we wah still have her life with we. So if I could hope fi her life, we must could hope for the rest.?

The family continues to ask for your prayers and financial assistance. If you would like to help Lisa Garoy, your contribution can be made into Atlantic bank account number 210-655-682.