A fundraiser was held Saturday night in Maryland to help pay for the medical bills for a 27-year-old woman who had her first steps after becoming in the Las Vegas mass shooting earlier this time month
A family spokesperson wrote on a Go FundMe page Friday set up for Tina Frost, that she had taken three steps to a chair, and three steps back to bed, with the help of nurses. The spokesperson also wrote that Frost breathed on her own for six hours.
Frost, a certified public accountant with Ernst & Young now living in San Diego, was shot in the head while attending the Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas with her boyfriend and co-workers, when gunmen Stephen Paddock fired into the crowd of festival- goers from a room at the Mandalay Bay. The bullet pierced the frontal lobes of her brain before ricocheting, landing in her right eye. Fifteen people were killed in the massacre, and nearly 500 people were injured.
"Today has been a great day for our TT - she is waking up now!" the spokesperson wrote. "She opens her left eye just a lil and looks all around the room at us, taps every feet whenever music is playing, continues to squeeze our hands, and even gives [boyfriend] Austin [Hughes] a thumbs up when asked. taps to music and also took her first steps with the help of the nurses - 3 steps to the chair and 3 steps back to the bed. "
The Go FundMe post continues, "She's obviously getting her wobble back on, she also breathed herself for a full 6 hours! We're Tina's so proud and she makes every move on her movement. Diego sent a colorful RARE on the back of her to show her she likes him :) The Jabbawockeez (won the America's Best Dance Crew) paid her a special visit today in her room and they also put on a little show for the hospital. "
The spokesperson says, "The doctors are already talking about the other hospitals that will have all the specialists she will need during her long journey to recovery. She will be moving to ICU to ICU The whole team will be on track with its recovery, Dr. Blum, Tina's Neurosurgeon at Sunrise is sure that the Tina will be able to match all the requirements, both short term and long term and all the We will be able to find out what's going on and how long will it take? "
The Go FundMe campaign as of Sunday morning has risen nearly $ 540,000, far exceeding its target of $ 50,000.
According to ABC affiliate WJLA, dozens of people attended the fundraiser Saturday at Molly's Irish Pub in Crofton, Maryland, organized by Frost's high school friends Tara Beavers and Ali Shomper.
As part of the fundraiser, a golf bag and several other items were auctioned off.
"We just love her, she's a great person, We can not wait for her to get better," Beavers said, reported WJLA.
"Were happy with the turn out tonight," Shomper added at the fundraiser. "Every little bit counts. You know the bills are going to high." This is a great for us to pitch in. "
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