Danielle Drummond, 28, who recently moved from Cleveland, Ohio, to Oregon for a fresh start, is now hoping for a scientific breakthrough after the ordeal left her requiring both a wheelchair and a caregiver.
She told Cleveland-based station 19 News that she attempted to stabilize the piano when she offered to aid last month, but her companion lost her grip.
“She dropped like a whole upright grand piano on me, and it severed my spinal cord,” recalled Ms Drummond.
“Now, I’m paralysed from the waist down.”
Ms. Drummond has no family in Eugene, Oregon, where she lives.
