ENG: Please help 13 year old Emily and her family raise money for travel costs to and from the hospital and to adapt their home so it is appropriate for the recently blind Emily! GER: Bitte hilf der 13 Jahre alten Emily und ihrer Familie mit den Transportkosten zum Krankenhaus und zurück und damit sie ihr Zuhause blindengerecht einrichten können!
Emily's Story: On October 6th Emily's life changed forever. She was involved in a freak accident while doing her favorite thing in the world: walking her beloved pony. She and an adult with a horse were taking one of these walks in the woods, when out of nowhere the horse kicked her in the face.
Emily instantly fell to the ground. As she she woke up, her face already started to swell up. The kick completely shattered her nose and upper jaw. Her right eye was ripped apart and her left eye was severely hit too. She was bleeding heavily out of her mouth and nose by the time I her mother got there. Time stood still as I knelt down beside her waiting for the ambulance. Minutes felt like an eternity and I started screaming for help while Emily gasped for air. Finally the ambulance arrived, they loaded her up and off we went to the nearest hospital.
They did the initial exams in the shock-room and decided to fly her straight to the university clinic in Mainz. She was sent to the eye clinic where she underwent a 10 hour surgery on her right eye. Afterwards she had two reconstructive facial surgeries. She was then transferred to the Intensive Care Unit where the doctors decided she needed to be put in an artificial coma for 2 weeks.
After these 2 weeks the medical team slowly woke her up and as Emily woke up the harsh realization that she is blind and mute -due to the breathing tube- hit her all at once. Of course this was an absolute shock to Emily and she had a full panic attack and started hyperventilating heavily. Luckily after a while she got used to her new situation as well as you could expect. That Friday she was taught how to speak by putting a cap on the trach-tube but the following Monday she had another reconstructive facial surgery and was back to square one, with a swollen face, no speaking due to the breathing tube being attached to a machine and of course the pain and panic that comes with it.
