My name is Chris, I'm a 911 dispatcher and unfortunately my brother's story is all too familiar. When I got the call about my little brother Grant, who was involved in a motorcycle accident on Monday 9/16/24 I thought that I was getting the call that my brother, the absolute fighter had died.

Thankfully the news wasn't quite so bad, he only was in the ICU with 15 broken ribs, 3 broken vertebrae, both ankles, cuts on his liver and spleen and right kidney, and road rash. Thankfully he always wears a helmet and it probably saved his life. Grant was rear ended on his way home by a reckless uninsured motorist. The officer I later spoke to told me that when the calls came in that nobody knew where he was and that it looked like the bike had "exploded" into pieces and that my brother had vanished in the "explosion".

Grant's always been a fighter, but he's never the reason he's been in the ring. As long as I've ever known him, it has never been his fault. Grant's had personal tragedy befall him after personal tragedy. I don't want to air his major tragedies, but I will tell you that he's a type 1 diabetic and that his normal everyday life is a fight. A matter of willpower and determination to live right enough to survive. Something that I'm sure we all take for granted.

I've never known how to help him, and he's usually too stubborn to let anyone try. I don't know what he'll end up needing, but I do know that there's very little chance he'll be made whole by the uninsured driver that hit him. I don't know what expenses he's incurring, or what long term effects this will have on him, but I do know that he will eventually need something and I just want him to know that when he's laying there in pain that he doesn't have to worry about anything other than getting better.

Grant is once again fighting, fighting for every breath he takes, for every sip of water he's allowed, for every half spoonful of applesauce he's allowed to eat, for every grimace of pain as he counts the seconds until being better. Will you help him fight?