Phelps Family Fight For The Future
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My son Devon and his wife Jill Phelps were out for a morning jog when they were run over by a car going over 40 mph. The driver had a suspended license. He was uninsured. The driver hit a pole immediately after the Phelps family with such force that the telephone pole broke in half. While these good kids were lying on the ground, unconscious in critical condition with broken bones while their two children wait unaware in daycare, the uninsured driver tried to flee from the scene.
A couple of months ago, Devon left the military after eight years of service. The family left North Carolina where they had been stationed and moved to Atlanta. While Jill passed the exam for teaching certification in Georgia, Devon applied to Georgia Tech. With his military engineering experience and great college grades, he was confident he'd be accepted and continue his education. Money was now tight but, together with Jill and Devon working now, they had managed to save enough to make it over the hump without help until he finished college and began his career.
All this ended on a sunny morning in the middle of March, when an ex-felon without a valid license or insurance hit them with his vehicle. Jill fractured her skull, broke her cheekbone, crushed facial nerves that prevent her from moving her face, and had a hole in her cheek sewed up with more than two dozen stitches.
Jill also had multiple leg fractures, a collapsed lung, liver damage, and a laundry list of smaller injuries. Witnesses say after the speeding car collided with her, she flew forward against the telephone pole which caused additional harm. Devon was thrown 75 feet from the accident and landed in a thorn bush. While he avoided the multiple head injuries, his leg broke in three places and tendons were nearly ripped clean apart below the knee. Devon and Jill each were hospitalized for a week. Devon uses a walker. He can't bend his knee for two months. It will be a minimum of four months before he can walk unassisted, and sadly there is a chance he may never be able to a jog again. With good fortune, Jill can walk unassisted in under two months. The crushed nerves in her face may never recover. She may have another operation in a few months to try and regain movement for the left side of her face.
Please help this deserving couple right now by donating whatever you can spare. They have two sons, two and four years old who rely on them. They can't work, can't pay their bills, and their entire future is on hold. Thank you so much for reading this story. From everyone in their family, we thank you with all our hearts.
Here is some background. Devon and Jill are in their mid-20s. They met in high school and got married two years later. Jill went to college full time while Devon supported her with his Marine pay. They lived together outside the Marine base and a little over a year after the marriage their first son was born. Two years later, as she was nearing the end of her degree, Jill was pregnant with their second child. During the pregnancy, the military called Devon overseas for nine months.
Jill continued to care for their oldest son while pregnant and still in school. She gave birth to their second son shortly before graduating Magna cum laude. Devon watched his second son being born while on a ship overseas near Bahrain. Soon after, he made it home from his Marine assignment to meet his second son for the first time. Now that Jill had graduated with a teaching degree, she went to work teaching the 3rd grade while Devon worked full time and began college full time in the evenings. Between all this work and school they continued to raise their toddlers.
A couple of months ago, Devon left the military after eight years of service. The family left North Carolina where they had been stationed and moved to Atlanta. While Jill passed the exam for teaching certification in Georgia, Devon applied to Georgia Tech. With his military engineering experience and great college grades, he was confident he'd be accepted and continue his education. Money was now tight but, together with Jill and Devon working now, they had managed to save enough to make it over the hump without help until he finished college and began his career.
All this ended on a sunny morning in the middle of March, when an ex-felon without a valid license or insurance hit them with his vehicle. Jill fractured her skull, broke her cheekbone, crushed facial nerves that prevent her from moving her face, and had a hole in her cheek sewed up with more than two dozen stitches.
Jill also had multiple leg fractures, a collapsed lung, liver damage, and a laundry list of smaller injuries. Witnesses say after the speeding car collided with her, she flew forward against the telephone pole which caused additional harm. Devon was thrown 75 feet from the accident and landed in a thorn bush. While he avoided the multiple head injuries, his leg broke in three places and tendons were nearly ripped clean apart below the knee. Devon and Jill each were hospitalized for a week. Devon uses a walker. He can't bend his knee for two months. It will be a minimum of four months before he can walk unassisted, and sadly there is a chance he may never be able to a jog again. With good fortune, Jill can walk unassisted in under two months. The crushed nerves in her face may never recover. She may have another operation in a few months to try and regain movement for the left side of her face.
Please help this deserving couple right now by donating whatever you can spare. They have two sons, two and four years old who rely on them. They can't work, can't pay their bills, and their entire future is on hold. Thank you so much for reading this story. From everyone in their family, we thank you with all our hearts.
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Mike Kenneavy
Organizer
Sandy Springs, GA
