The local nurse seriously injured abroad faces a long road to recovery

Zoe Rose says that it has been an emotional roller coaster trying to take his daughter Sierra back to Boston from Thailand.

“Like’s emotions, we have been approved and, oh my God, come on and, oh my God, we are moving forward and then crashed, falls,” Rose said.

Rose has just arrived in Thailand this weekend, where her daughter suffered serious injuries in a cyclomotor accident while she was on vacation there last week.

“Physically, you can see that his nose is to the side, physically he has no teeth, his chin was removed, but now he is back and his eyelid left, but that is now on,” Rose said.

Rose is now with her daughter in a hospital in Krabi, where she says she is outdoors without air conditioning.

Very different from the Salem hospital, where Sierra works as a nurse of the UCI.

“There are pigeons walking through our room,” Rose said.

Now the goal is to take a hospital in Bangkok for facial surgery, which is more than 10 hours away by ambulance, since doctors will not allow him to fly at this time due to the pressure of the cabin.

“They are worried if she sneezes, blows her nose or shakes that her face collapse,” Rose said.

Rose says that the big problem now is that Sierra lost his passport in the accident, and is not allowed to transfer to the next hospital without him, so he is working with the embassy to try to get that for his daughter as soon as possible.

“I don’t know if I’m going to have to leave my son here alone and fly to Bangkok and go looking for him and then fly here to get it and then fly to Bangkok with the Medcraft. I have no idea how this is being produced, ”said Rose.

Meanwhile, friends return home in Boston have Created a go-found-me to try to help Sierra with all these medical costs While trying to wear a medflight back to Boston after this surgery.

“She has to undergo surgery here, well, undergo surgery here, stabilize her face and take her home,” Rose said.

This is a development story. Consult updates again as there is more information available.

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