Make our home wheelchair accessible for Jerod.
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On February 24, 2020, my husband, Jerod, blacked out at work shortly after the daily safety meeting. He hit his head on the cement, fracturing the bone above his right eye and part of his sinus. Jerod had gone into cardiac arrest twice, once in the ambulance and once in the ER. He was brought back twice, the second time after several minutes. He was diagnosed with an acute pulmonary embolism (blood clots in his lungs), an acute cranial hemorrhage (from the skull fracture), and two heart attacks. The doctors didn't have much hope that he would wake up, or if he did, what state he would be in.
After more than five weeks in intensive care, he started to wake up. He went from the hospital, to a nursing home, into inpatient rehab. He is confined to a wheelchair, blind and has limited use of his hands. The separation has been mentally and emotionally devastating to a man already struggling with a traumatic brain injury. He just wants to come home, but we can’t bring him into our house without ADA modifications.
Our home is not wheelchair accessible at all. We need to widen doorways, put in hard floors, raise a sunken living room, completely remodel one bathroom and put a ramp on our front entry.
After 27 years of marriage and almost 2 years of separation under pandemic quarantine conditions, we just want Jerod to come home.
I miss my husband, but more than that, he needs to get out of institutions and back with his family.
Organizer
Summerlyn Clausen
Organizer
Tacoma, WA