Georgia Curry cannot speak a single word out loud, but her iPad gave her the voice she needed to help save a woman hundreds of miles away in Mississippi. Curry, a nonverbal patient at a rehabilitation campus in Northwest Omaha, used a speech-generating app to call and check on a woman named Marie after sensing something was wrong — a call that ended with emergency medication reaching Marie just in time.
A Daily Routine Becomes a Lifeline
Curry spends her days at the campus run by Quality Living, Inc., commonly known as QLI, where she is well known among staff and fellow patients, according to KETV. One of her regular rituals is greeting Queenie Seals-Moore, a supervisor at QLI, who says Curry is more than just a familiar face around campus — she is a leader. Curry’s outreach to Marie, the aunt of her late friend Lajuana, started as one of those ordinary check-ins and quickly became something much more serious.
When Marie did not sound like herself, Curry sensed trouble. Marie, who lives in Mississippi, was unable to make outgoing phone calls herself and needed her daily medication, the station’s report states. Because Curry reached out when she did, the problem was caught before it became a crisis.
Staff Step In After Curry Raises the Alarm
Once Curry alerted staff to the situation, Seals-Moore contacted Marie’s brother, who delivered the needed medication to her. Marie later said she might not have survived the night without that help, per the same account. It was Curry’s long-distance relationship with QLI staff, built through years of small daily interactions, that Seals-Moore credits with making the rescue possible.
Marie described Curry in simple terms: a blessing who helps her in many ways. The two are connected through Lajuana, Curry’s late friend, whose name Curry has tattooed on her body. Phelisa, who is related to Curry, told the outlet that nothing stops Georgia Curry — a sentiment echoed by Seals-Moore, who said QLI staff love Curry for exactly that kind of determination.
A Bond Forged Through Shared Experience
According to Phelisa, both Curry and Lajuana lived with cerebral palsy, the same diagnosis that shaped their friendship before Lajuana died a few years ago. Curry promised to watch after Lajuana’s aunt, a pledge she continues to carry out through calls made possible by her iPad, which she also used to communicate directly with KETV for its report. Cerebral palsy is the most common childhood motor disability in the country, affecting roughly 1 in 345 children, or about 2.4 per 1,000 8-year-olds, according to the CDC. The condition varies widely in severity, and the CDC has also found that about 40% of children with cerebral palsy have co-occurring intellectual or communication disabilities, with 30% to 40% experiencing limited or no walking ability…