Help Luke Driscoll
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Luke Driscoll is an avid snowboarder, rock climber, and dog lover. He lives in Denver Colorado where he works as a full time bartender. He spends his free time with his two dogs, Zeke and Bear, hiking the Rockies of Colorado, snowboarding in the winter and rock climbing in the summer. He is also very supportive of his step brother, who recently had identical twin boys, and looks forward to Luke's help and companionship.
On Friday, December 13, 2019, Luke was snowboarding at Keystone Mountain, where he also works, when he had a bad fall resulting in multiple fractures of his spine. He landed face down and his legs came up over his back, compressing his vertebrae. The mechanism of injury is referred to as a "Scorpion" because it looks similar to a scorpion's tail over it's head. The resulting injury completely compressed his L1 vertebrae, and caused other fractures at T7, T8, T12 and L2. Miraculously, he escaped any significant spinal cord damage.
Initially he was unable to be med-evaced from the mountain due to a snowstorm that had the interstate closed and grounded the helicopter. After the storm subsided, he was transferred to St Anthony Hospital in Lakewood, Colorado where he underwent a 10 hour spinal surgery to fuse his vertebrae, insert pins and screws, and decompress an epidural hematoma. Currently, he is in the ICU, wearing a spinal brace, and will be in Physical and Occupational Therapy for weeks to come.
Unfortunately, Luke has no health insurance and struggles on a monthly basis simply to pay for the insulin to treat his type 1 diabetes. His medical bills will be staggering, and he has no ability to earn a living at this time. This time of year, working as a bartender at a Vail ski resort would have been his greatest opportunity to earn and save. I am asking for donations to help him pay his hospital expenses, and his cost of living over the next few months as he rehabilitates and learns to live with his injuries, returns to work and hopefully to the climbing and snowboarding he loves.
On Friday, December 13, 2019, Luke was snowboarding at Keystone Mountain, where he also works, when he had a bad fall resulting in multiple fractures of his spine. He landed face down and his legs came up over his back, compressing his vertebrae. The mechanism of injury is referred to as a "Scorpion" because it looks similar to a scorpion's tail over it's head. The resulting injury completely compressed his L1 vertebrae, and caused other fractures at T7, T8, T12 and L2. Miraculously, he escaped any significant spinal cord damage.
Initially he was unable to be med-evaced from the mountain due to a snowstorm that had the interstate closed and grounded the helicopter. After the storm subsided, he was transferred to St Anthony Hospital in Lakewood, Colorado where he underwent a 10 hour spinal surgery to fuse his vertebrae, insert pins and screws, and decompress an epidural hematoma. Currently, he is in the ICU, wearing a spinal brace, and will be in Physical and Occupational Therapy for weeks to come.
Unfortunately, Luke has no health insurance and struggles on a monthly basis simply to pay for the insulin to treat his type 1 diabetes. His medical bills will be staggering, and he has no ability to earn a living at this time. This time of year, working as a bartender at a Vail ski resort would have been his greatest opportunity to earn and save. I am asking for donations to help him pay his hospital expenses, and his cost of living over the next few months as he rehabilitates and learns to live with his injuries, returns to work and hopefully to the climbing and snowboarding he loves.
Organizer
Jerry Driscoll
Organizer
Warminster Township, PA
