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Help Charles Holt get home and get well!

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Hey everyone, my name is Gary Holt, thrash guitarist for Exodus and formerly for Slayer. My brother on May 6 while on the first day of a solo vacation in Rome, was struck from behind by a taxi, resulting in a broken femur that is in need of surgery. The taxi driver actually put him in the taxi and dropped him off at the hosipital. We aren't even sure if we will find out the who and what of all this. He spent three days on a gurney in a hallway awaiting even a real bed, alone. Unable to truly communicate with the staff. My wife has flown out there to be with him, she is having the same issues navigating and communicating, but at least my brother is not alone. I fly out as well on Friday to be there for my brother and to help my wife Lisa who is very nervous being alone hersefl there. The costs have been enormous to the family and to Charles and he hasn't had the surgery yet, and he cannot fly home until he does. We hope sooner rather than later. I am not wealthy, unlike what the internet says, far from it, I have no more income that any blue collar worker. My brother will not be able to work for months, he has had a rough life but turned it around years ago, saves all him money working at a coffee shop and recycling, to go on these trips, to live again. This nightmare get's worse ,whenever there's a glimmer of good news, another road block. Please get him home and help him get well.
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Donations 

  • Nathan Boosinger
    • $200 
    • 9 mos
  • Erica Deitz
    • $500 
    • 10 mos
  • Masahiro Nakayama
    • $10 
    • 10 mos
  • Anonymous
    • $10 
    • 10 mos
  • Anonymous
    • $20 
    • 11 mos
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Gary Holt
Organizer
Raised $10,916 from 260 donations
Meadow Vista, CA
John Earnest
Team member
Raised $40 from 1 donation
This team raised $54,709 from 1275 other donations.

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