Turkey Tossing Victim Is Out Of Intensive Care!!!!!
Turkey toss victim on mend
BY TOMOEH MURAKAMI TSE
STAFF WRITER
November 27, 2004
Victoria Ruvolo, the Lake Ronkonkoma woman who was critically injured after a turkey was thrown though her windshield, has left the intensive care unit and is able to get out of bed with some help, the family's attorney said Friday.
'She's still a bit disoriented,' said Paul Feuer, a Patchogue attorney. 'The family is trying to keep her in a sedated atmosphere.'
Ruvolo, 44, has been making steady progress since the turkey sailed through her windshield and smashed her face while she was driving in Lake Ronkonkoma on Nov. 13. Ryan Cushing, of Huntington, who allegedly tossed the turkey out the window of a moving car, and five other teenagers have been charged in the incident.
As the defendants spent Thanksgiving weekend at home, Ruvolo, the youngest of seven siblings, received family members in her hospital room. She is being fed through a tube because her jaw is wired shut.
'We're a close family. If we were in the same state we always spent the holidays together,' said Joseph Ruvolo, 63, the eldest of the woman's siblings, in a telephone interview from his Sorrento, Fla., home.
But this year was different.
'They didn't really have much of a Thanksgiving because they were worried about Vicky,' he said. '... This was uncalled for. She didn't deserve this.'
I am glad to hear that she is on the mend and doing better!!!
BY TOMOEH MURAKAMI TSE
STAFF WRITER
November 27, 2004
Victoria Ruvolo, the Lake Ronkonkoma woman who was critically injured after a turkey was thrown though her windshield, has left the intensive care unit and is able to get out of bed with some help, the family's attorney said Friday.
'She's still a bit disoriented,' said Paul Feuer, a Patchogue attorney. 'The family is trying to keep her in a sedated atmosphere.'
Ruvolo, 44, has been making steady progress since the turkey sailed through her windshield and smashed her face while she was driving in Lake Ronkonkoma on Nov. 13. Ryan Cushing, of Huntington, who allegedly tossed the turkey out the window of a moving car, and five other teenagers have been charged in the incident.
As the defendants spent Thanksgiving weekend at home, Ruvolo, the youngest of seven siblings, received family members in her hospital room. She is being fed through a tube because her jaw is wired shut.
'We're a close family. If we were in the same state we always spent the holidays together,' said Joseph Ruvolo, 63, the eldest of the woman's siblings, in a telephone interview from his Sorrento, Fla., home.
But this year was different.
'They didn't really have much of a Thanksgiving because they were worried about Vicky,' he said. '... This was uncalled for. She didn't deserve this.'
I am glad to hear that she is on the mend and doing better!!!
