UPDATE: When 27-year-old Jo Gilchrist contracted MRSA, an anti-biotic resistant form of golden staph after borrowing a friend’s makeup brush, she was left paralysed from the waist and wheelchair-bound as a T1 paraplegic.
Doctors told her she would never walk again, never again have control of her bowel or bladder and no longer be able to chase her 3-year-old son Tommy around the yard.
Against all odds, Gilchrist has recently taken her first few steps, walking with crutches as an aid.
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Unfortunately that doesn’t solve the problem.
Still looking at life spent restricted to a wheelchair, the young mum has been put on a waiting list for a home that is wheelchair accessible as well as facing on-going rehabilitation and medical costs for the rest of her life, not to mention caring for her son.
Friends and family are currently trying to raise around $40,000 to buy Gilchrist a van big enough to fit an electric wheelchair and car seat, so that when she leaves hospital she doesn't have to get a taxi to and from appointments, which could cost her up to $200 a day.
At the moment, her medical living expenses are reportedly adding up to close to $950 a week, not including the cost of food or travel.
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Previously The Glow reported:
A 27-year-old woman from Queensland has been left wheelchair-bound after she used her friend's makeup brush to cover a pimple on her face.