Complex sentence: The accident left her permanently paralyzed from the waist down, requiring her to use a wheelchair for mobility.Sadly, her mother who had been maintaining a bedside vigil during her stay in the hospital, died later that year (in December 1945).
Split into simpler sentences: The accident left her permanently paralyzed from the waist down, requiring her to use a wheelchair for mobility. Her mother, who had been maintaining a bedside vigil during her stay in the hospital, died later that year (in December 1945).