BREAKING NEWS:
2006 St. Michael's graduate and Rhodes Scholar Jamila Headley was admitted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Barbados after losing feeling in her legs Tuesday, Feb. 27. She is paralyzed from the waist down. It is not known what caused the paralysis or if it will be permanent, but it has persisted for more than 24 hours, said Jamila’s sister, Joy-Anne Headley, a first-year student at St. Michael's.
Jamila Headley was surfing in her home country of Barbados when she lost feeling in her legs. X-rays showed no sign of broken bones. And the results of further tests are unavailable at this time. Headley does not have medical insurance, and financial help would be appreciated, said Moise St. Louis, Director of Multicultural Student affairs. Donations in the form of a check payable to Jamila Headley to help pay for medical care can be sent to Edmundite Campus Ministry, St. Michael's College, Box 272, Colchester, Vt. 05439.
"The most important thing that we can do right now is to keep her and her family in our prayers," St. Louis said during a public information meeting Wednesday, Feb. 28 at St. Michael's Hoehl Welcome Center.
Further information will be posted as it becomes available.
If you have a brief message for Jamila, e-mail The Defender, and it will be published next week.

Jamila
Headley,
Class of '06