Finally Home Recovering From Heart Surgery, This Poor Woman Was Brutally Beaten In Her Own Front Yard
Cypress, Texas. 21-year-old Nicole does not have the average life of a young adult. She has heart failure caused by cardiomyopathy, which makes it harder for her heart to pump blood to the rest of her body.
Nicole recently had a defibrillator implanted in her chest to deliver an electric current directly to her heart in the event of a cardiac arrest.
The device senses heart rhythm and can shock the heart to restart it or normalize function without a shock.
Studies have shown that using a defibrillator within 3-5 minutes of cardiac arrest can give a person a 50-70% chance of survival from sudden death.
The defibrillator may keep cardiac arrest at bay for Nicole, but there’s still a chance of her needing a heart transplant in the future.
Through all of the issues with her health, she is determined to maintain her financial independence and focused on providing for herself.
Not long after her implant, she returned to work her full-time job to ensure continued health insurance for a future full of major ongoing medical expenses.
Just when she thought life was returning to (her new) normal, the unthinkable happened.
At home in her front yard, she was finally ready to take some time for herself and relax. Laying in her hammock, she didn’t see the man coming at her. He came out of nowhere, striking and bashing Nicole brutally from behind.
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She spent several days in the Intensive Care Unit and has required various surgeries to remove multiple crushed skull fragments, replace the skull with titanium plates, and stop the bleeding from her head and face.
It’s unbelievable the amount of recovery time, and rehabilitation Nicole will need to go through to come back from this senseless act of violence, let alone her heart condition.
GoFundMe; pictured above is Nicole before the attack
Nicole will need additional mental and financial support through this physical and emotional struggle. To read more about Nicole’s story, visit her GoFundMe here.
On a personal note: Although I have no idea what motivated the attacker to perpetrate on Nicole, I wonder if the man looked at her and assumed she was a good target because she seemed so relaxed and happy.
I could be entirely off, but it made me think on a larger scale about how people judge people based on how they look. I don’t mean this from a racial or ethnicity standpoint, but instead an emotional or physical view.
If I saw Nicole lying on her hammock, I would have no idea of the hell she went through to be alive and stay alive every day. I would have no idea she was worried about not waking up that morning or how she would afford a heart transplant in 9 years if she were lucky enough to live that long.
So many people mistake a smile for happiness and prosperity. Nicole’s smile was just because she was happy to be alive. Someone almost took that away from her. They literally beat the smile from her face. I pray she’ll have it again someday. Life is too short for this bull.
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