Football star hails home-coming queen.
By: Lasana Liburd (wired868).Candice fights back from tragic assault Candice Worrell returned to her Couva home last weekend for the first time since the 29-year-old health and safety officer was brutally attacked by a still unidentified assailant outside her Jenexcon Engineering workplace in Montrose, Chaguanas on 20 January 2012.
By Monday, she was back at the St James Medical Complex though. Maybe tonight, if Worrell is adjudged to have had another good week, she will return to her family.
Worrell, a former model and beauty queen, can now open her eyes and look around while there is also limited movement. She can breathe and function without machines too. But she still has meals through a tube and does not speak.
There is no certainty either that Worrell recognises what she trains her eyes on. Doctors told the family that she has not fully awakened from her coma, which was induced by the trauma of a violent assault two months ago.
Her fiancé, Trinidad and Tobago national goalkeeper and W. Connection captain Jan-Michael Williams, still struggles to make sense of his feelings regarding the chaos that descended on his household.
He dreamed about taking Worrell home for weeks but, when it happened, it was a surreal experience.
“It was a little intense,” Williams told Wired868.com. “It was good. But I just had to get accustomed to her being there after she was away for so long.
“It felt like a year that she wasn’t there.”
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