A GoFundMe effort has raised almost $22,000 so far to help her recovery journey.
“It was kind of fishtailing, and it just got pretty violent and threw me off the sled,” Okleasik said on a Zoom call., which features dozens of racers and thousands of dollars in award money.
Soon, she was rushed to a hospital and was quickly given a CT scan, which she said was painful. Okleasik said the scan showed injuries to her thoracic spinal cord along her vertebrae.Due to the severity of her injuries, she was medevacked to Anchorage and received surgery the next day. Okleasik’s cousin, Oliver Hoogendorn, is an avid cyclist. In efforts to help her, he decided to donate $2 for each kilometer he biked over the course of three days.
“I think she heads to recovery sometime in the next few days, so it’s going to be a tough time, but she seems to be in good spirits from when I’ve talked to her,” Hoogendorn said. “You know, I think if anyone can do it she can.”
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