She has been offered a number of jobs in the past month or so, following the front-page article in The Phuket News (issue of August 31), and has decided to accept a post in guest relations at the Panwa Beach Resort.
She will start as soon as her paperwork is in order, probably next month, and she feels fit enough to remove her back harness, which was put in place to help her spinal injury.
Sasha was grateful to The Phuket News for publicising her problems following the crash, including losing her job. “I’m happy to be starting work,” she said. “It’s been a long time.”
It’s been a little over two months, but Sasha remembers the August 9 visa run bus crash as if it were yesterday. She was travelling on a visa run to Ranong when the minibus crashed, seriously injuring her and eight of her travelling companions.
It’s been a long and step-by-step recovery, but after a ‘lot of help’ from her friends she is slowly getting back on her feet.
“Now I have a Russian doctor, who treats me free and has actually turned into a friend of mine. She comes to massage me. She is just one of many Russians who drop in regularly to help me.”
Sasha has been advised by her new doctor to stay in her room in Chalong for most of the day, and not to exert herself physically, but at least now she has a laptop with which to entertain herself during the day.
This is just one of the gifts she said that people have dropped off. “People have been so nice. I’m reluctant to leave Chalong because there are so many Russians in the area who have helped me out.”