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Community helps victim.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Farm Service Agency's workers donate for Kerry Capps)(Brief article)
On a night in December 2005, Kerry Capps was driving to her grandparents' house in Fernley, Nevada, when her truck rolled over. The accident broke her neck and left her a paraplegic. Mrs. Capps spent nine months in hospitals recovering from her accident, much of that time in Craig Hospital in Englewood, Colorado, which specializes in spinal cord injuries. Perhaps the hardest part of her ordeal was being away from her husband, Harley.
"I missed my buddy," she told the Fallon, Nevada, Lahontan Valley News.
The Capps' ordeal was made much easier by the generosity of others, however. Both Harley and Kerry received sick-leave time donated by their co-workers. Kerry had worked for the Farm Service Agency for less than a year before her accident, but she received a paycheck the entire time she was hospitalized thanks to the generosity of FSA employees across the country. Harley's co-workers were also generous in donating their sick-leave time, so that he could frequently visit ...
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