The Details

Jessie Cooper is an EMT-IV with a wonderful family and great friends and co-workers.

On September 26, Jessie was in a car accident on Mt. Carmel Rd. Her car jumped a ditch, hit a fence and then flipped. The roof was crushed and pinned her head down, breaking her neck. At that time, she was aware that she was paralyzed from the chest down and was able to assist the emergency personnel who arrived on the scene with diagnosing her injuries. She was airlifted to The Med, where she was taken to the Trauma Ward.

She spent the first few days in the Trauma ICU and then had surgery to reset her broken neck and to verify that there was no serious damage to her spinal cord. After that, she was sent upstairs to the Trauma Step-Down Ward, where she remains right now. As soon as she is cleared to, she will be transported down to Atlanta to the Shepherd Center to begin rehabilitation so that she can learn how to take care of herself and to walk again.