Recent graduate and Rhodes scholar inexplicably paralyzed
Jamila Headley, class of 2006, injured while surfing
Recent St. Michael’s College graduate and Rhodes scholarship recipient Jamila Headley fell victim to a sudden paralysis Feb. 27 as she was taking a surfing lesson in her home country of Barbados.
Currently, Headley is a patient at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in the capital city of Bridgetown, where she is undergoing tests to determine what may have caused her to lose feeling in her lower body, though the Echo has learned that X-rays and a CT scan have ruled out a broken back as the cause.
“I was pretty shocked by it,” Headley’s younger sister, Joy-Anne Headley, a first-year student at
St. Michael’s says. “Not knowing what caused the accident was scary. Waiting for information was stressful.” (Full story)
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