fraf update
my ex-editor 'n' i visited fraf thursday night and heard some good news from his mom: he's breathing on his own and has a gag reflex! he's in room 2205 in the bloxom tower at harris methodist downtown. visiting hours are 11am-12noon, 2-3pm, 5-6pm, 8-9pm, and 11pm-12midnight. go see him and talk to him, and give his family members some ups, too. there are a lot of cards and pictures there that friends have left.
btw, i found out his full name is chad morgan percy. (sorry, fraf.)
here's some info his friend linc posted on myspace a coupla days ago:
Tuesday they did some reflex testing which Fraf responded to. You know, little rubber mallet just under the knee caps? He did well and everything worked as it should and apparently that means there isn't any damage to the brain stem (or if there is it's very minimal). That's great because from what I read of the posturing he was doing they were related to injury of the brain stem.
Wednesday they remove his feeding tube and respirator from his mouth and give him a tracheostomy to reduce his chance of infection and pneumonia. They will also do another round of brain scans and tests.
His brain is still swelling a bit but the swelling in his face and hands has gone down a ton.
Keep reaching out to him and drop by to see him!
**DONATION INFORMATION**
As you can imagine, Fraf has no health insurance. His mom is working with social security and the hospital, but ultimately Chad's gonna have some mammoth medical bill. All of that will pay for the hospital, but anything we can do to help him get any top-notch rehab he needs to just help with rent and what-not after the fact will be welcome.
There are now collection containers at many "Fraf-friendly" places around Fort Worth. You can go to Lola's on 6th street, the Chat Room, the Spiral Diner or the Fairmont which are all on Magnolia, as well as Liberty Electric Tattooing on 7th street. I think Kat is setting all of those up and may end up putting more of them out.
There should also be a donation pool set up on Scooter-relief.org in the next few days so that folks can donate online and from out of town. Dave from the Chat Room is setting that up.
Last, I have set up a fund via PayPal. To contribute simply send a donation via PayPal to cadillac.fraf.fund@gmail.com - all money will go to his mom to help with him. If Fraf actually gets the money the hospital will be able to attach it to his medical bill so we want to keep it out of his hands for now.
Also everyone needs to thank Diana when you see her and his roommate Kelly. She is doing a ton of work to get Chad's scooter out of impound and paying the expenses. Typical sweetheart Diana! Kelly has been digging up all kinds of important docs the hospital needed for social security claims and whatnot.
I know there are a lot of other folks helping out, and thanks to you all!
Don't forget to check his website.
This is probably the last blast message I'll send and keep the rest at caringbridge.org/visit/fraf.
btw, i found out his full name is chad morgan percy. (sorry, fraf.)
here's some info his friend linc posted on myspace a coupla days ago:
Tuesday they did some reflex testing which Fraf responded to. You know, little rubber mallet just under the knee caps? He did well and everything worked as it should and apparently that means there isn't any damage to the brain stem (or if there is it's very minimal). That's great because from what I read of the posturing he was doing they were related to injury of the brain stem.
Wednesday they remove his feeding tube and respirator from his mouth and give him a tracheostomy to reduce his chance of infection and pneumonia. They will also do another round of brain scans and tests.
His brain is still swelling a bit but the swelling in his face and hands has gone down a ton.
Keep reaching out to him and drop by to see him!
**DONATION INFORMATION**
As you can imagine, Fraf has no health insurance. His mom is working with social security and the hospital, but ultimately Chad's gonna have some mammoth medical bill. All of that will pay for the hospital, but anything we can do to help him get any top-notch rehab he needs to just help with rent and what-not after the fact will be welcome.
There are now collection containers at many "Fraf-friendly" places around Fort Worth. You can go to Lola's on 6th street, the Chat Room, the Spiral Diner or the Fairmont which are all on Magnolia, as well as Liberty Electric Tattooing on 7th street. I think Kat is setting all of those up and may end up putting more of them out.
There should also be a donation pool set up on Scooter-relief.org in the next few days so that folks can donate online and from out of town. Dave from the Chat Room is setting that up.
Last, I have set up a fund via PayPal. To contribute simply send a donation via PayPal to cadillac.fraf.fund@gmail.com - all money will go to his mom to help with him. If Fraf actually gets the money the hospital will be able to attach it to his medical bill so we want to keep it out of his hands for now.
Also everyone needs to thank Diana when you see her and his roommate Kelly. She is doing a ton of work to get Chad's scooter out of impound and paying the expenses. Typical sweetheart Diana! Kelly has been digging up all kinds of important docs the hospital needed for social security claims and whatnot.
I know there are a lot of other folks helping out, and thanks to you all!
Don't forget to check his website.
This is probably the last blast message I'll send and keep the rest at caringbridge.org/visit/fraf.
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