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‘She’s a miracle’: Father provides update on Stonehill College student injured in Spain bike crash

Lauren Rauseo is making progress in a Spanish hospital after she sustained a traumatic brain injury and several broken bones in the crash.

Lauren Rauseo. GoFundMe

By Adora Brown

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A Stonehill College student is improving after she was in a devastating bike accident earlier this month while traveling with friends in Mallorca, Spain.

Lauren Rauseo, a junior at the college from Londonderry, New Hampshire, was taking a trip to Spain during a study abroad semester in Paris. While riding down a narrow street, a car approached and Rauseo made a panicked turn down a steep hill, her father, Dave Rauseo, told The Boston Globe. She lost control of the bike and hit a wall at high speed.

Dave Rauseo provided a positive update on his daughter’s condition. The crash occurred on March 17, and Rauseo has woken up from a medically induced coma and is talking. She suffered a traumatic brain injury and several broken bones in the accident.

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“She’s doing really well,” he told the Globe. “She can’t get out of bed, stand up, or walk or anything like that. But she can wiggle [her toes and feet]. This early in the game, that’s amazing. Because when I got here, we didn’t know if that was ever going to happen. Never mind a week later. We didn’t know if that was ever going to happen. So, she’s a miracle.”

Two GoFundMe fundraisers have been set up to help Lauren Rauseo’s family transfer her to a Boston hospital for further treatment. They had raised a total of over $250,000 as of Tuesday morning.

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In a Monday update from organizer Ryan Desmarais on one, he wrote:

Thank you to everyone for your thoughts and prayers. Lauren is showing signs of improvement every day. Doctors have stopped sedation and removed Lauren from the respirator. She was able to move all her extremities on command and she was able to speak a few words for the first time since the accident. Lauren still has a long journey ahead of her, but she is a fighter. Her parents are hopeful she will be able to physically be in a position to be med flight to a hospital back home in Boston within the next couple of weeks.

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