Rambo says she can drive, but prefers not to, and gets where she needs to go with her sister and via the Sterling Estates vans that circulate around East Cobb. “I’m still trying to get it up to the goal,” she said. She and her sister attend Johnson Ferry Baptist Church, where Rambo shoots basketball two or three times a week. She wants to compete in swimming, cycling and basketball. Rambo had a long recovery from a stroke in 2013. A virtual competition took place during the pandemic, and she was mailed some medals.īut she misses the camaraderie and wants her family to take part in the experience, which like the Olympics also includes opening and closing ceremonies. The next Transplant Games take place in the summer of 2024 in Birmingham, Ala., and Rambo is excited about an in-person return. Most of all, Rambo wants to get back to the Transplant Games, which became a major source of support and social life with her fellow transplant recipients. Rambo takes walks around the Sterling Estates pedestrian loop and enjoys the facility’s small pool.īut she says she wants to try cooking again soon, and desires some more independence.
She walks with something of a limp, but is alert and responsive in a busy facility where she greets everyone, including a 106-year-old resident. There, the staff cooks her meals, does her laundry and cleans her room once a week. Paige Sander, her sister and legal guardian, lives in East Cobb, and in 2015 Rambo came to live at Sterling Estates to be closer to her. Rambo as a basketball player at Ole Miss. She returned there after leaving Shepherd.īut she could no longer do basic things for herself, such as cook or even change bed linens. Rambo, who as Risa Turton was a hoops star at Crisp Academy and Crisp County High School in Cordele, Ga., and played at the University of Mississippi and Mercer University, knew she would never be able to live the same way again.Īfter college, she married and raised three sons, and after her divorce, stayed active playing golf on St. Part of the therapy was putting a basketball in her hand when she walked, to keep her head up. “They had to teach me how to walk again,” Rambo said. She would be lifted out of bed by rehab specialists, and “they would work you real hard,” from 8 a.m. Rambo was unconscious for several weeks, and later had to undergo a more grueling rehab in Atlanta at the Shepherd Center, which helps patients recover from spinal cord and brain injuries. After being rushed to a hospital in nearby Brunswick, Ga., she had emergency brain surgery.
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