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Yahoo
17-03-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Local nurse seriously injured abroad faces long road to recovery
Zoe Rose says it's been an emotional rollercoaster trying to get her daughter Sierra back home to Boston from Thailand. 'The emotions of like, we've been approved and oh my God, we're going and oh my God, we're making progress and then crash it comes tumbling down,' said Rose. Rose just arrived in Thailand this weekend, where her daughter suffered serious injuries in a moped accident while on vacation there last week. 'Physically you can see that her nose is over to the side, physically she doesn't have any teeth, her chin was kind of removed, but it's now back on and her eyelid was gone, but that's now on,' said Rose. Rose is now with her daughter at a hospital in Krabi, where she says it's open-air with no AC. Much different than Salem Hospital, where Sierra works as an ICU nurse. 'There are pigeons walking around our room,' said Rose. Now the goal is to get Sierra to a hospital in Bangkok for a facial surgery, which is more than 10 hours away by ambulance since doctors won't allow her to fly right now because of the cabin pressure. 'They're worried if she sneezes, blows her nose, or gets jolted that her face will collapse,' said Rose. Rose says the big issue now is that Sierra lost her passport in the accident, and she's not allowed to transfer to the next hospital without it, so she's working with the Embassy to try to get that for her daughter as soon as possible. 'I don't know if I'm going to have to leave my child here alone and fly to Bangkok and go get it and then fly back here to get her and then fly to Bangkok with the Medcraft. I have no idea how this is transpiring,' said Rose. Meanwhile friends back home in Boston have created a Go-Fund-Me to try to help Sierra with all of these medical costs as she tries to get a Medflight back home to Boston after this surgery. 'She has to have surgery here, fine, have the surgery here, stabilize her face and get her home,' said Rose. This is a developing story. Check back for updates as more information becomes available. Download the FREE Boston 25 News app for breaking news alerts. Follow Boston 25 News on Facebook and Twitter. | Watch Boston 25 News NOW
BBC News
13-03-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Expat Villa fan in Paris excited for the team's match in her current home city
A British expat living in France says she will do whatever she can to try to watch her favourite football team play up close after years of supporting them from afar. Liz Medcraft used to be an Aston Villa season ticket holder after falling in love with the team when she was 12, before moving to Paris."I became fan when I watched David Platt score the last minute, extra time goal against Belgium in the 1990 World Cup", the former Stourbridge resident said. Aston Villa will play Paris St-Germain in the Champions League quarter-final with the first leg in Paris on 9 April. "I wasn't born and bred a Villa fan", she told BBC Radio WM. But after watching Platt score, she said she was adamant to go and watch him play in real life. "I was 12 at the time. I thought I love him. I want to go see him and then my dad took me to Villa Park the following season," Ms Medcraft said."I saw two games that season and the second game I saw he scored a hat trick against Tottenham and I was hooked."After moving to Paris, Ms Medcraft said she was resigned to watching her team play on French TV on Saturday afternoons. "I was a season ticket holder until I moved to France. I followed them home and away - and now I follow them from far away", she added. But with Villa continuing their Champions League exploits with a trip to her current home city, Ms Medcraft said the excitement was starting to build. "Its going to be quite complicated but I'm going to try and get tickets," she said."It's quite exciting - I've started to get messages from all my French friends."Some are season ticket holders so I'm going to try to wrangle it!" Follow BBC Birmingham on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
