Mary Maloney, 14, was having fun tumbling on her trampoline when she landed oddly on her head and neck.
As Pam Surano left mass one day last summer, her phone started ringing. She glanced down and saw her daughter, Mary Maloney, 13, was calling. But she let it go to voicemail as she reflected on the service and gazed at the church. Until Mary called again. And again. Surano picked up and immediately knew something was wrong.
“They put her in a wheelchair. She threw up all over herself and fell forward like she lost all ability to sit up,” she said. “From then, it was just a series of nightmares.”Pam Surano and her daughter, Mary, say their faith has helped guide them through this challenging time.“They were completely perplexed because it showed everything perfect and normal from the brain to the spinal cord,” Surano said. “There was not a contusion, not a blood bleed, not a fracture, nothing was wrong.
“You have to crawl before you walk and that’s what she’s doing now. Crawling is hard and she can do it,” Surano said. “It is a huge indicator of her recovery. Because she was paralyzed from the middle of her chest to her toes. She has what they consider top down recovery happening. So her abdominal flexors are activating, which is great because they were formerly paralyzed.
Broken bones, concussions, head and neck injuries and sprains can commonly happen when children use trampolines. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, in 2016 there were approximately 120,000 hospital emergency room-treated injuries associated with trampolines.
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