Tuesday, 26 May 2009

  • This is REALLY important, please help

    So I know most of you guys probably don't actually really care about my wellbeing or my safety and stuff like that, which is cool with me, because you're just here to read my blogs and laugh, right?

    Just kidding. I know you all love me.

    This morning, at about 5:30, Mom woke me up to tell me my 26-year-old brother, Travis (who is the oldest of us ten kids), had been in an accident a few minutes ago and that they were leaving to go with him to the hospital. He was only about 20 minutes away from home. I knew she wouldn't have roused me at 5:30AM if he'd just messed up his car and walked away unharmed. So she told me all they knew so far was that he hurt his ankle and it was a head-on collision with another car, and then she left (by the way, I haven't heard my mom run through/out of the house in years. She could have outrun me this morning, and I've only been beaten in a footrace once).

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    My brother means a lot to me.

    At the moment, he's in the ER, and we're still not sure if he's going into surgery tonight. All I know is his leg, ankle, and pinky finger are broken, and he's bruised and cut all over. To directly quote Dad, "he shouldn't have lived through a wreck like this", but he did. I haven't seen the car, but I was told it's demolished. Which is worse than totaled, which is what you'd consider the last one he had, which got rear-ended, which he took the insurance money from to buy this one, only this time his insurance payments didn't get paid a week before this happened, since he was short on cash, so he had no car insurance.

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    Just imagine it with the front end pushed back a ways and that's probably what it looks like. I'm guessing the impact was pretty hard, since Dad could barely yank Travis' size 14 shoe out from under the carpet below the brake pedal. Had he not been wearing a seatbelt and had an airbag, he'd be dead right now.

    Here's where you (stop looking around, you know I mean you) come in. I don't know how many of you are Christians, but those of you who are, it'd be awesome if you prayed for him and that his surgery is successful. To the rest of you, whatever you do in a situation like this, if you'd do it now (even if it's just thinking about him), that would be greatly appreciated. It'd mean a lot to him and the rest of the family.

    Also, for those of you who'd like to encourage him or tell him you're praying for him/thinking about him personally, you can stop by his Myspace and send him a message. Just tell him his little brother sent you.  You could also friend request him if you'd like to keep in touch.

    http://www.myspace.com/turbosupralover

    Thanks everyone, it means a lot to me, and Travis too.

     

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