We've just returned home from Florida April 25th; got news yesterday (Sunday) morning that my wife's sister's daughter's 'life partner' Olivia was in a horrific accident.
My wife's sister is Caroline, her daughter is Carrie. Carrie has Alpha 1 Antitrypsin, a lung condition, that has left her with only 31% usage of her lungs. Her life partner is Olivia, who herself is epileptic, shown here on the porch with Carrie (Carrie's on the left, Olivia on the right):
(if ya can't tell, Joe and Caroline are Nascar frea.. er, fans..!)
Saturday they all went over to prepare some rental property for new tenants Caroline owns a few blocks away. Olivia finished her part and left. A few moments later there were sirens and Olivia had dropped off the shoulder, the truck demolishing rolling over many times, and she was ejected out the windshield and flew 40+ feet. Had she stayed in the truck she would have been crushed; there was nothing left that looked anything like a vehicle.
But, she suffered a broken shoulder, two broken legs, a broken arm, broke her pelvis in 5 places, 5 broken ribs, dropped her hips below her fanny, separated her spine in 2 places requiring two emergency surgeries, punctured both lungs, severe lascerations and cuts, head embedded with glass and sprained anything that wasn't broken. They suspect she had a grand mal and floored it; truck had to have been going 100+ mph when it started to roll and she had no seat belt on.
They airlifted her to Ft. Myers Lee Memorial Hospital; she has undergone numerous surgeries and is still listed as critical.
Please keep her in your thoughts if you could, she needs all the help she can get (plus has no insurance). Thanks,
My wife's sister is Caroline, her daughter is Carrie. Carrie has Alpha 1 Antitrypsin, a lung condition, that has left her with only 31% usage of her lungs. Her life partner is Olivia, who herself is epileptic, shown here on the porch with Carrie (Carrie's on the left, Olivia on the right):
(if ya can't tell, Joe and Caroline are Nascar frea.. er, fans..!)
Saturday they all went over to prepare some rental property for new tenants Caroline owns a few blocks away. Olivia finished her part and left. A few moments later there were sirens and Olivia had dropped off the shoulder, the truck demolishing rolling over many times, and she was ejected out the windshield and flew 40+ feet. Had she stayed in the truck she would have been crushed; there was nothing left that looked anything like a vehicle.
But, she suffered a broken shoulder, two broken legs, a broken arm, broke her pelvis in 5 places, 5 broken ribs, dropped her hips below her fanny, separated her spine in 2 places requiring two emergency surgeries, punctured both lungs, severe lascerations and cuts, head embedded with glass and sprained anything that wasn't broken. They suspect she had a grand mal and floored it; truck had to have been going 100+ mph when it started to roll and she had no seat belt on.
They airlifted her to Ft. Myers Lee Memorial Hospital; she has undergone numerous surgeries and is still listed as critical.
Please keep her in your thoughts if you could, she needs all the help she can get (plus has no insurance). Thanks,
