Lisa Brown takes full responsibility for why she ended up briefly behind bars. But now she says a 20-day jail sentence has left her with a life sentence of partial paralysis and disability.

‘They were moving me all around and I had a broken neck.’

Imagine falling and breaking your neck, but no one takes you to the hospital right away.

That’s exactly what a local woman says happened to her inside the St. Clair County Jail and now she’s trying to make sure something like this doesn’t happen to anyone else.

Lisa Brown takes full responsibility for why she ended up briefly behind bars. But now she says a 20-day jail sentence has left her with a life sentence of partial paralysis and disability.

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
    136·
    8 months ago

    “now she’s trying to…” what? I thought that when you break your neck that’s it, lights go out end of show. How did she end up trying to do anything?

    • Mrderisant
      24·
      8 months ago

      Oh no. It depends on if any/which nerves are crushed/cut.

      • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
        315·
        8 months ago

        So she literally had to hold her head around to do anything the entire time? That’s crazy. I’m guessing she just stood there motionless on the floor the entire time. That’s what I would do to prevent pain if you move the wrong way.

        • BreakDecks@lemmy.mlEnglish
          15·
          8 months ago

          I know it’s tempting to rationalize something this evil as being fake. It would be nice if it were. But these kinds of comments just serve to further deny humanity to people who end up this badly mistreated.

          • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
            12·
            8 months ago

            I totally don’t think it’s fake. I was more interested as to how the heck she got out of that situation. Like another commenter said, the injury varies, but maybe if you move it gets worse. But like somebody must have found her on the floor and helped her? I’m thinking maybe somebody found her on the floor then called paramedics? Because otherwise maybe she wouldn’t have had a chance at all.

          • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
            27·
            8 months ago

            I had sciatica pain and the best way to avoid it was to just not move my legs. Otherwise it was like normal normal…oh you’re dying from the pain, then back to normal. So I’m guessing that’s how it feels on the neck with a nerve injury that produces pain.

    • NatakuNox@lemmy.world
      18·
      8 months ago

      That’s not how every spinal injury works. It’s honestly roll of the dice every time and different for every individual. It can rang from tingling in one or more limbs, extreme pain, loss of control of all voluntary movements, to death.

    • Classy@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      8 months ago

      There are multiple components running through your neck that coincide with the spinal column. Nerves, blood vessels, the larynx, muscles, all kinds of things. Traumatic injury to the neck can break one or many of those things and not all in the same way, even with similarly natured injuries.

      Someone could break the bones in their neck while maintaining an intact nervous system and not lose the ability to move around, or someone else can snap their nerves or puncture their larynx and suffocate. It all depends.