Zhou Cui Ying, 36, remains in the hospital after a heavy tree limb fell on her at Washington Square Park in San Francisco's North Beach a week ago, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. Zhou was watching her daughters play when the freak accident occurred. From her bed at San Francisco General, she told KTVU she is in a lot of pain and doesn't know if she'll ever walk again. "My head hurts and my back hurts. I cannot move," she said. "The bottom part, no feeling, I don't feel anything." Zhou is on strong painkillers. Her husband, Jian Con Tan, has taken time off work to care for their children, and the family has set up a GoFundMe page to help with medical expenses. On the afternoon of August 12, Zhou was at Washington Square Park with her daughters because they were early for their dental appointments in nearby Chinatown. She showed photos she had taken of 9-year-old Angelina and 5-year-old Arosia feeding the birds at the park shortly before the accident. Zhou says she was focused on her daughters and never heard or saw the limb come down. When asked if she remembered the tree falling, Zhou replied, "No, it was very fast." She says the next thing she knew, she was in the hospital.

Her husband, Tony Tan, tells KTVU police picked him up from his work and rushed him to the hospital. "It took doctors 10 hours to do all the surgery for her," Tan said. He says his wife's spinal cord is damaged and that he and his daughters are struggling with what happened, worried about what the future holds. "I don't know what to do. I cannot go to work. It's really hard for me to sleep, and even at night I think about what happened for weeks and weeks. It's really sad for me," he said.

The stay-at-home mom says her girls are her life. She's shocked that she's in this condition. "Sometimes, I feel sad, don't want to see another person like me," Zhou said. She says she's speaking about what happened because she doesn't want it to happen to someone else. Her hope is to be able to walk again with her daughters. "Maybe walking with them, playing. Yeah, make them happy."

Zhou says she's not sure when she'll be released, but her next step is rehab. The family says no one from the city has spoken to them. San Francisco (KPIX 5) — One week after a large tree branch fell onto a woman in a San Francisco park, doctors told her husband she will never walk again. Cui Ying Zhou was at Washington Square Park with her two daughters last Friday when a tree branch snapped and landed on her head. The limb weighed about 100 pounds and fell from a pine tree. Her husband, Jian Cong Tan, told KPIX 5 that the branch fractured his wife’s skull and broke her lower spine. Doctors said Zhou will definitely be paralyzed, even if they can reconnect her spinal cord. "Her lower spine was broken. The doctor showed me the X-ray and said, 'Her lower spine separated into two parts; her skull was broken too,'" Tan said. Tan said their daughters, who are only five and nine years old, are too distraught to go back to school. He has taken leave from work to care for the girls, who witnessed the accident. Despite the seriousness of her injuries, Zhou is showing some signs of improvement. "It’s amazing that she’s still breathing and can talk to me right now. It’s very amazing. It’s like a miracle," Tan said. He said he hasn’t slept all week and is just trying to stay as strong as he can for the girls. "They need help as well, because they saw what happened and probably hide everything inside for themselves. They probably don’t want to talk about it," he added. San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee released a statement the day after the accident. A statement said, "His thoughts are with the family... and we are praying for the recovery of this young woman." Those words offered little consolation to a family that has been shattered. "I don't know what to say. It's so terrible; this is the worst day of my life right now," said Tan. "I feel really terrible." Arborists have been out in San Francisco parks all week doing visual assessments. They say the canary pines are in good condition and are calling the incident a freak, tragic accident. Zhou is expected to be out of the ICU in a couple of days.