{"id":1034,"date":"2018-01-08T16:58:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T16:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2018-01-08T16:58:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T16:58:42","slug":"laverne-russell-needs-your-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=1034","title":{"rendered":"Laverne Russell needs your help"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barrington Flemming<\/strong><\/span><\/em>
\nStaff Reporter<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

47-year-old Laverne Russell is in need of your help. An amputee, Miss Russell, who is now staying at Mt. Salem, lost her right leg 2 years ago, after complaining of feeling pain.
\nThe amputation of the leg has left her without a job, making it difficult for her to fend for herself and her ten-year-old daughter. Russell has resorted to begging in the streets because her disability has made it difficult for her to secure a job.
\nRussell related that the life changing moment came one day when she was at work at a restaurant in Mt. Salem and felt a pain in her leg. She stopped for a while to tend to the pained area and then resumed working.
\nThe pain continued to affect her but became overwhelming for her one day while she was at work, and she took the time off and went to the hospital. The doctor at the hospital told her it may be an abscess (an abscess is a collection of pus that has built up within the tissue of the body). She was told to return the following day, which she did.
\nMiss Russell said a doctor gave her an injection in the leg and some medication.
\nUNBEARABLE PAIN
\n\u201cThe medication did not work and I began to feel more pain. I went back to get some treatment because the pain was becoming unbearable,\u201d she related.
\nMiss Russell indicated that while no X-Ray was done, a doctor Plummer at the Cornwall Regional Hospital recommended that the leg be amputated because the flesh was decaying (rotting).
\nAccording to her, the pain was so unbearable, and it was a very difficult decision, as it would rob her of her mobility. She could take it no longer and trusting that the doctor knew what he was doing; Miss Russell acted on his advice and agreed to the amputation of the leg.
\nSo now without a job, she is forced to beg on the streets.
\nDAUGHTER TAKEN AWAY
\nShe says her heart is bleeding because after losing her leg, her life was again changed for the worse as her 10 year-old daughter was also taken by the authorities and placed in a home in Mandeville and is now a ward of the state.
\n\u201cThat was so painful, still is but what can I do?\u201d she said with tears welling up in her eyes.
\n\u201cI don\u2019t have a job. I cannot get a steady job to earn any money for myself so I am forced to beg. I am staying with a friend and am grateful but I cannot continue to depend on that friend. I do not want to impose on them too long,\u201d she added.
\nMiss Russell is now pleading for your assistance as she requires a prosthetic leg to restore some level of mobility. The leg costs approximately $ 125,000 and she does not have the money to buy it.
\n\u201cI need all the help I can get. I don\u2019t have the money to buy the leg so I am asking members of the public to help me. Please, I am desperate. I would like to be able to fend for myself,\u201d she pleaded.
\n\u201cI would need this leg but I cannot afford it. It would help me to move around and possibly get to work again\u201d she explained.
\nSo, anyone with a heart and the means to help may call her at 452-1284 to offer some assistance.<\/p>\n

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Barrington Flemming Staff Reporter 47-year-old Laverne Russell is in need of your help. An amputee, Miss Russell, who is now staying at Mt. Salem, lost her right leg 2 years ago, after complaining of feeling pain. The amputation of the leg has left her without a job, making it difficult for her to fend for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}