LAFAYETTE, La. ( KLFY ) Last week News 10 introduced 28-year-old Deangela Celestine, a single mother of seven who was shot several times by her ex-boyfriend before he killed himself. Now she is paralyzed from the waist down. A local church is stepping up to make life more livable for a mother who once did everything for her children and now needs help.
‘Don’t take it as a joke’: Mother of 7 now paralyzed waist down after domestic shooting
“When I heard about it, I knew that I could kind of help in some way,” Randy Hopkins said. “They said that she was bedridden, paralyzed from the waist down. I had something that I had got for my wife. It’s called a shower gurney and what it’s for a person that’s bedridden and what you do is you can give her a comfortable shower instead of just a wash-off.”
Hopkins explained how the shower gurney has special meaning to him.
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“I purchased it, and to tell you the truth, my wife passed away with pancreatic cancer and 2 to 3 weeks maybe before I could even use it,” Hopkins said. “She passed, and I never got a chance to use it. So I’ve been having it in the corner for about four years. I tried to sell it multiple times, but that’s not what God showed me. I kept it in the house for four years up until now.”