T’Shonda Dore rushed to USA for spinal surgery
T’Shonda suffers from scoliosis (curvature in the spine) which has been threatening to damage one of her lungs if surgery is not done soon. Here in the VI she was only treated with pain killers by the local Peebles Hospital because of the hospital’s limitations.
Her family had turned to the public to help them raise the needed $79,000 to have the surgery done but up to sometime last week when she had to be whisked off to the USA the family was nowhere close to having the required amount of money but they had to move or they risked losing her or seeing her permanently paralysed and with severe damages to at least one of her lungs.
“We had to rush her out because she was getting worse,” a parent told this news site yesterday October 6, 2015.
Shriners Hospital shows compassion
According to information related to Virgin Islands News Online, the child was taken to Shriners Hospital for Children in the USA and with not even most of the cash they needed. The foreign hospital was reportedly moved with compassion and waivered the cost for the surgery to help save T’Shonda.
The Shriners Hospital for Children treats young patients with chronic and congenital bone disorders and is a world leader in the treatment of brittle bone disease, scoliosis, club feet, leg length discrepancies and many other rare bone conditions.
“We still have to pay all the other expenses for hospitalisation, medication and therapy, not to mention accommodation and everything else,” related her Father Mr Alvin Dore aka DeeJay Turbo.
“We are pleading for whatever further assistance we can get, we really don’t have it. We took the risk of sending her for the surgery because things had gotten worse for her. She wasn’t even able to attend school, that bad, lots of pain, lots of pain,” said the emotional father.
In the breath of extending heartfelt gratitude to all the persons who came forwarded and donated, “Thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks, to everyone if I could find a bigger and better word than thanks I would use it but all I can say is a million thanks to everyone and if there are any others who can give to help us, help our child please, please do so.”
Mr Dore also said most persons came forward to help after the last publication was put online by this news site.
“VINO, I want you to publish my gratitude to you. It was right as you guys pushed the story about my daughter that most of the people who gave, came forward and while we are still in need of help, you guys don’t know what a big thing you did for our little girl, thank you VINO for pursuing this story,” said Mr Dore.
The father of the child made the desperate plea to the public on August 31, 2015, as he had said it was hurting deep for the family to see the child suffering so much.
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16 Responses to “T’Shonda Dore rushed to USA for spinal surgery”
My prayers to this little girl and her family.
If NHI was in place she would have been referred to the necessary specialist overseas ages ago to get her operation done. Don't be such a damn fool, you actually contradicting yourself. This is not a good example for being against NHI dunce.
Why go begging in foreign lands...
NHI would bear the cost but the uninformed rhetoric continues_Anything that would make Black folks stand on their own two feet is a problem to the enslaved.