BULLIED FOR BEING SICK
Wheelchair user attacked while trying to enjoy life
but I didn’t received any major damage. I went to the doctor, and a lot of tests were done and I was OK. After that, I had a limp, but it was going away. I decided to try out for the netball team even though I had a little limp, and while we were doing some small drills, my legs just gave way and I collapsed and that was it,” she said.
UNKNOWN CAUSE
Price stated that after she regained consciousness, she had a very high fever and could barely feel her limbs. Doctors initially thought she had contracted the Zika virus, but that test came back negative. Tests for spinal injuries also came back negative, but she experienced multiple seizures.
“I keep telling myself I had a cramp and my legs would go back to its regular self, but, two days later, I realised that this was not so. My right leg went first and then my left leg. My organs began to shut down, and I lost bowel and bladder movements. All of this happened within two weeks. I was paralysed from head to toe,” she said.
Although she has been seen by numerous doctors in Jamaica and Cuba, she is yet to get a full diagnosis. What is for certain, though, is the multiple massive epilepsy episodes, excruciating pain, autoimmune disorders, and other neurological conditions.
Price’s mother, Sophia Evans, stated that the family would continue to fight until her daughter returns to her normal self. She stated that they partnered with the Sizzla Youth Foundation to host fundraising event for her daughter but it has been postponed.
“She has a very bright spirit and she goes out and post pictures a lot because she doesn’t want to feel depressed. But it tends to pose a lot of controversy because persons are saying that she doesn’t look ill in her pictures. It has caused some issues with sponsors and so on. We just had a death in the family, so when she even kept a pool party for her birthday, she was just trying to get these things off [her mind],” she said.
“It kind of went down bad with the media, so we, the family, just decided to put off the whole thing. We didn’t want people to be looking at Sizzla Youth Foundation as a scamming thing. I hope he [Sizzla] really understands it because when it comes to the point where your integrity is questioned, we decided to just hold off on it for a while,” Evans
added.