Recovery from Car Crash in Niskayuna
At the end of April of this year, 82-year-old Virginia Corsi (left) and Mary Backlund, 70, (right), both from Boulder, Colorado, were heading back to Albany International Airport after visiting friends in Albany when they were involved in a hair-raising car accident on Troy-Schenectady Road. The accident took the life of one person, but luckily, both Virginia and Mary survived. They were taken to Albany Medical Center (AMC), where Mary (multiple trauma) sustained multiple internal and musculoskeletal injuries requiring extensive surgeries, and Virginia (level 1 trauma) was diagnosed with multiple extremity fractures requiring external fixation of the leg, liver laceration, small bowel obstruction, rib fractures, and bad abdominal pain with a positive seatbelt sign.
Both women stayed at AMC for nearly a month and were then taken to Schenectady Center on Altamont Avenue on May 17 for two months of diligent physical therapy. Both women encouraged each other to get stronger, and the Schenectady Center staff were also major supporters of their achieving a strong positive outcome in order to go back home to Colorado. It worked. Mary was discharged on July 13, and Virginia followed and is scheduled to be discharged tomorrow morning, on July 25, 2023.
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