Family hopes for 'miracle' as Danforth shooting victim wakes from coma
Liz Braun
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Published:
August 4, 2018
Updated:
August 4, 2018 2:13 PM EDT
Danielle "Dani" Kane, 31, suffered a life-altering injury and may never walk again after being among the 15 victims shot in Greektown, on the Danforth, on Sunday, July 22, 2018. (Twitter)
She’s back from the brink of death.
Danielle Kane, 31, one of the most seriously wounded victims of the Danforth shootings, continues to make progress.
After two weeks in a medically induced coma, the nursing student is out of Intensive Care at St. Mike’s Hospital, awake, and talking to family.
On July 22, night of the Danforth rampage, Kane and her boyfriend, ER nurse Jerry Pinksen, were at dinner with a friend at the 7Numbers restaurant.
They heard shots, and when a passerby reported that a woman on the street was wounded, both Kane and Pinksen ran outside to help. Pinksen saw the gunman and ducked; Kane was shot as she walked out the restaurant door.
She was badly hurt. The gunman’s bullet hit Kane’s spine and shattered the eleventh thoracic vertebra, so the fear has been that she may never walk again.
More will be known as her strength increases and she’s able to begin rehab; meanwhile, a cousin reports that Kane has already begun physiotherapy. Time will tell, but the family remains hopeful that Kane will make a full recovery.
According to her mother, Jocelyn Kane, there will be a lengthy recovery and rehab program for her daughter, and she has, “A long, long way to go.”
Of course, Kane will take that journey with the full support of family and friends and the Danforth community at large.
As her mother told CP 24, “I do believe in miracles and miracles do happen.”
A GoFundMe page for Danielle Kane has been established to help her family with the cost of rehab and, potentially, the cost of making her home fully accessible. (According to the Christopher Reeve Foundation, costs for the first year of paraplegia are around $500,000 U.S.)
The page describes Danielle Kane as a young woman constantly in motion — someone who loves travelling, hiking and dancing.
The #DaniStrong fund is moving fast toward its $200,000 goal.
LBraun@postmedia.com
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