Help Bring Makayla Home: Recovery After a Devastating Accident in Italy

Hello everyone,

I am creating this GoFundMe for two dear friends who are in urgent need of support from their community.

While celebrating Corey and Makenzie Miller's wedding on the Amalfi Coast, four friends were traveling down to their rooms to get ready for the wedding later that evening when tragedy struck. The golf cart they were riding in suffered a mechanical failure, and the brakes stopped working. In a split-second act of courage, Parker was able to steer the cart away from a cliff edge, likely saving multiple lives in the process.

Despite his heroic actions, his wife, Makayla, sustained severe injuries in the crash.

Makayla was transported by ambulance to a local hospital, where a team of medical professionals, including an obstetrician, as she is approximately 16 weeks pregnant with their first child was waiting to care for her. Due to the severity of her injuries, she was later airlifted to another medical facility. Unfortunately, the region has limited access to major trauma centers, and she requires a higher level of specialized care than is currently available.

At this time, Makayla cannot travel home on a commercial flight because of the extent of her injuries. Her injuries include multiple pelvic fractures involving the entire pelvic ring, a tailbone fracture, a hip fracture, an L5 vertebral fracture, significant facial bruising, and extensive road rash to her leg.

For our medical friends and family, her injuries include:

- Diastasis of the pubic symphysis

- Right pubic rami fracture

- Left sacral and coccyx fractures

- L5 transverse process fracture with a fracture involving the vertebral body

- Acetabular fracture

Parker and Makayla remain in a foreign country, navigating a complex medical situation while facing language barriers and uncertainty. While they are grateful for the care they have received, we all know there is no place like home, surrounded by family, friends, and a trusted medical team.

The financial burden of this accident extends far beyond the immediate emergency. Medical transportation, ongoing treatment, rehabilitation, lost income, and the long road to recovery ahead will create significant challenges. Our hope is to ease some of that burden so they can focus entirely on healing.

To our medical community: Makayla is an incredible nurse with a heart of gold. She has dedicated her career to caring for others during some of the most difficult moments of their lives. We know how frightening and overwhelming serious injuries can be. Now, one of our own needs our support. While we may not be able to provide her hands-on care, we can help ensure she receives the resources she needs to get home and continue her recovery.

To our education community: Parker is a dedicated educator who pours his heart into caring for and guiding his students every day. Right now, however, his focus needs to be on caring for his wife and their unborn baby. While much of this support is for Makayla's medical recovery, we also hope to ease the financial strain on Parker so he can be by her side every step of the way.

To our animal-loving community: Parker and Makayla are preparing to become first-time parents, but they are already devoted parents to their three beloved Alaskan Malamutes Mallow, Max, and Maya. In one of the first conversations we had with Makayla after the accident, she said, "I miss my babies." She deserves to be home with the people and animals she loves most.

Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to read their story. Whether you are able to donate, share this fundraiser, or simply keep Parker, Makayla, and their baby in your thoughts and prayers, your support means more than you know.

Please share this far and wide. This Spokane-area family needs their community right now, and I know we can come together to help bring Makayla home.