
Help me stay with my son after our car accident
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My name is Amber and I am reaching out to anyone who will at least listen to my story. My heart is heavy and my soul hurts with so much pain and guilt. I left the house last Sunday night with the intentions of going to the corner store to get hot chips for my son as well as my other kids and their cousins. I get about a mile and a half down the road while going into a really deep curve to the left, a deer jumps out at my car from my driver side and I jerk my steering wheel to the right to avoid the deer. The next thing I know my car is just going by itself and I couldn't get control and then everything just goes completely white. I couldn't hear or see anything until I hear my nephew yelling my name and telling me my son kiondre needs my help. All I could see was smoke taking over the inside of my car until I look in the back seat and see blood is everywhere. My heart immediately stopped when I see my son slumped over in the backseat covered in blood. I told my nephew to get my 4 year old daughter out of her car seat and get to the nearest street for help. The next thing I know I'm in the backseat trying to wake my son up yelling and screaming at him to please wake up. I get him to wake up but he just keeps trying to fall asleep and all he kept saying was "I love you momma" "I can't feel my legs", "I love you mama, I can't feel my legs." For what seemed like forever, I was sitting in the backseat of my car fighting for my son to keep his eyes open and convince him that he wanted to live. I remember my nephew bringing me a cell phone to talk to the 911 operator and they kept telling me to lay my son flat on his back, but when I attempted to lay him down, his breathing stopped and his eyes rolled back into his head, so I just threw the phone and kept talking to my son as I held his head in the palms of my hands with my thumbs rubbing his cheeks. The paramedics finally came and took my son to the hospital where they finally found his neck was broke from vertebrae C2 all the way down to c8, as well into his upper back to position T2. In the midst of all of those injuries his spinal cord was smashed completely flat causing his body to be paralyzed from the chest down. He went into emergency surgery Monday morning around 3am to fuse together his vertebrae in several places and to release all the pressure and bleeding off of his spinal cord. At this point he is unable to keep his body temperature regulated, he had a trachea placed in his throat, a feeding tube placed in his belly, his right side of his body has no movement at all, and the left side of his body he can now slightly move his left leg and his left foot. The main goal for him right now is for his body to stay stable enough so he can be transferred to a rehabilitation place to start getting his body some help. I'm trying so hard to be right by his side every minute of this journey and that is why I'm reaching out for help. I no longer have a vehicle to get back and forth to the hospital but I still manage to make it up there 2 or 3 times a day, I even get to spend the night with him every other night because my mom drove from Texas to come help me. She left her job to come help me and my son the best she could. The hardest part of this journey is going to be in the coming weeks when they send my son out of state to Atlanta Georgia to go to the rehabilitation center. I have no idea how I'm even going to get there, much less get to and from the center once im there. The place is called the Shepard Center and they offer up to 30 days of free shelter for families of newly admitted patients. After those 30 days, I'll have no way of getting to my son. That is why I'm asking for help along the way and help getting to my son. Words of encouragement, prayer, advice, donations, I will accept anything to help me get to my son.
Organizer and beneficiary
Amber Davis
Organizer
Nashville-Davidson, TN
Terence Gray
Beneficiary