Her mother spent \u201cthis past year pouring every ounce of energy into helping plan my wedding, staying up late to make everything perfect,\u201d and they were delighted the chosen venue had Highland cows, \u201cthree sweet, fluffy animals that everyone was excited to be around,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n
But when Costantine squatted down to pet one following the dinner reception \u201cthe cow basically came up and jumped on me, kind of like a dog would,\u201d she said. \u201cIts hooves went on my shoulders\u2026it bent me forward\u2026so when my face hit the ground, the cow just kind of like, walked over me.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Cassie Costantine lies in a hospital bed after her injury at her daughter’s wedding. Her daughter Rose Costantine-Stomberg (right) and her younger daughter join her for a photo. (Courtesy of Costantine family)<\/p>\n
Initially, she didn\u2019t want to distract from the festivities and told her family she was fine. But she was in excruciating pain and eventually went to a hospital at her daughter\u2019s insistence.<\/p>\n
At the hospital, doctors diagnosed the fractures and then transferred her to another facility that could provide more advanced care.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was just like an absolute nightmare. I can\u2019t move more than, like, 30 degrees, so I had to lay flat in just excruciating pain,\u201d she said. \u201cEvery little thing that you don\u2019t think about what you need help with. Now at this point, I was like, I need help with, which was humiliating.\u201d<\/p>\n
Costantine flew back to Central Florida with her husband, Joseph, on Monday. She was scheduled to\u00a0have surgery Friday and then faces six-to-eight weeks in an upper-body brace\u00a0and physical therapy.<\/p>\n
Her husband, who works for a vacation ownership company, will be taking time off to take care for her. The couple also have a 12-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n
Costantine-Stomberg said her parents would never ask for help, but her mother, who has survived cancer, deserves to recover from this injury without the added stress of huge bills.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s always been the one to lift others up. Now she needs help getting through the hardest chapter of her life,\u201d she wrote on GoFundMe. So far, more than $6,500 of the $16,000 goal has been raised.<\/p>\n
Joseph Costantine is also a professional magician who once appeared with his wife in a magic act on the TV show America\u2019s Got Talent. He currently performs once a week and intended to start performing three nights a week, but is now trying to decide how to proceed after his wife\u2019s injury. He said Cassie was to start performing on stage with him again, but those plans are canceled for now.<\/p>\n
Cassie Costantine said the outpouring of help from family, friends, their church community and strangers through GoFundMe has touched her heart.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe really, really, unbelievably, like, are grateful and just are honestly speechless,\u201d she said. \u201cHuge blessing for our family.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cassie Costantine spent the past 10 months tirelessly planning a wedding for her daughter Rose, who got engaged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[28,114,266,115,7820,1335,139,141,140,109],"class_list":{"0":"post-12047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-latest-headlines","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-ocoee","13":"tag-orange-county","14":"tag-orlando","15":"tag-orlando-headlines","16":"tag-orlando-news","17":"tag-social"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}