First Coast women's boxer Ishika Lay recovers after coma
No one would tell Blanchie Wingo anything.
All she knew is that her daughter, Ishika Lay, had been taken to a hospital in Toledo, Ohio, after a boxing match in the Police Athletic League National Championships that also were serving as a qualifier for the U.S. Olympic Trials .
When her son Curtis Williams picked her up to drive her to the hospital, he told Wingo only that Ishika had been injured in her second-round bout. Initially, Wingo wasn’t alarmed because it wasn’t the first time her daughter was hurt in competition or some kind of high-risk activity.
Lay had competed in volleyball, softball, track, basketball, gymnastics and tennis in high school in her hometown of Marion, Ind., and later in Columbus, Ga. Wingo was accustomed to her daughter’s sprains and abrasions.
Shortly after moving to Jacksonville, Lay joined the Jacksonville Dixie Blues women’s tackle football team. She began riding a motorcycle and overcame serious injury after a 2002 accident on San Pablo Road.
Then, Lay discovered that women’s boxing would be added to the 2012 Olympics Games in London. She threw herself into the sport with the goal of representing her country.
But as Wingo was being driven 152 miles from Marion to Toledo St. Vincent’s Mercy Medical Center the night of Oct. 4, 2011, her intuition as a mother told her it was going to be serious.
“On the way to the hospital, I didn’t know the extent of her condition,” Wingo said. “But I could tell something was wrong because of the way my son was driving.”
When they arrived at the hospital, Wingo walked into the room where her 32-year-old daughter was lying in a bed. Tubes ran into her arm. Sensors beeped out her heart rate and blood pressure. A respirator hissed and hummed.
This was no pulled muscle or scuffed knee.
Wingo looked at one of the doctors. Again, information was not forthcoming.
“When I walked in the room, they didn’t say anything,” she said. “She was hooked up to IVs, respirators … We asked them to tell us something, anything. One of the doctors just waved his hand. It was like he was saying, ‘What you see is what you get.
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Lay had competed in volleyball, softball, track, basketball, gymnastics and tennis in high school in her hometown of Marion, Ind., and later in Columbus, Ga. Wingo was accustomed to her daughter's sprains and abrasions.
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