Nurses surprise teen after spinal cord with Taylor Swift (exclusive)

• Elle Yona, 17, was a competitive dancer
• After the operation and physiotherapy, Yona was able to get a feeling in her arm
• Her nurses comforted her through her healing journey by sang her favorite songs by Taylor Swift, and the moment was caught in a now viral tikok

Last June, Elle Yona's life changed immediately.

“I was a healthy, competitive dancer at my high school,” says Yona. But at 16 she suffered a rare spinal clever and had it paralyzed under her neck.

The sudden change was devastating. “I actually went into the emergency room,” she says. “I had a stroke at the time and I was slowly paralyzed in the emergency room. Within two hours I couldn't move anything from my shoulders.”

In the months since then, the teenager has documented her recovery trip on Tiktok and published the hard moments and the big and small victories while working to regain the movement.

In a now viral TIKTOK video, your nurses surprise you by singing after an operation Taylor Swift songs.

The viral moment, title “POV:” POV: Your nurses give you a private Taylor Swift concert from your hospital room “, catches the women who sing the songs of her favorite artist in her hospital room.

“It was actually a specialist for children's life called Ariana,” explains Yona. “I and my nurses only talked and Ariana came in and said: 'Let us put on music' and they just put on Taylor Swift and started singing me.”

The nurses have become a crucial pillar of support for Yona during their recovery. “To be honest, my nurses are probably one of the closest relationships that I have in this experience,” says Yona.

“In particular, these nurses, like my older sisters, were in the hospital because my siblings were in New Jersey and they definitely behaved like great sisters,” she continues.

Apart from the unshakable support of her nurses, Yona Trost found music in Swift's music. “I love Taylor, she is definitely my favorite artist. I think her songs are very well written and many of them that I can refer to,” she says. “It only brings a level of comfort and reminds me of the positive things in life.”

Swift's music was a safety blanket for the teenager. “Even if I had one of my mrts, I woke up early because of my claustrophobia,” says Yona. “I was left in the MRI without nobody heard me more than 40 minutes. When she pulled me out, I played Taylor Swift's 'all too well (10 -minute version)' when repeated and that helped me to calm me down.”

Others who came across Yona's story have been very supported. Anonymous donor even surprised her with tickets for Swift's Eras tour.

“We took her to the Eras tour in Miami in October. There were ADA seats and everything. We surprised her on the day,” said her sister Demi.

In the past few months, Yona has won a certain function in one arm so that she can perform small tasks. “It was a great help, because when I was fully paralyzed, I was extremely itchy, anxious and only a little movement gave me a little more independence.”

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Demi adds: “It is not even in her hands, it's just her arms, but for example, she can put on rubber things to keep her like a toothbrush. So that also helps a lot.”

Yona is now taking part in physiotherapy five times a week. She expects this regime to be continued for the rest of her life in order to maintain the recovered muscle function. “Spinal cord lines are extremely rare … so rare that no progress has been made,” she says of her hard fight. “There are almost no research on it.”

Despite the challenges, Yona remains determined and hopeful. “I hope that I can completely regain the function and return to life that I had earlier, or at least in a sense, regain independence, where I don't have to rely on someone for every task. That would bring me good luck.”

Her message to other young people who change sudden life is resistant.

“Don't give up hope,” she says. “Depression and fear can definitely try to absorb them, but if they leave them a little, that's okay. But they have to remember that they have to work hard again because the ultimate goal is to get better.”