6/1/2023- We were on our way to the red woods national forest (with our friend from the east coast) when an accident occurred. Our injuries have resulted in myself having an emergency c-section, daddy potentially having an exploratory abdominal surgery, and Lil’ Mc intubated and receiving constant blood transfusions due to his brain bleed and additional trauma from the accident. He is on the edge of needing neuro-surgery and could be transferred from Asante in Medford to OHSU in Portland. Time will tell. If you are able to donate to our small family in any way we would be forever grateful. Prayers, sharing our post, or just checking in.

Thank you all in advance for your kind words and support through this tragic time.

UPDATE 6/2/2023.

Our son, baby John’s brain bleed became worse overnight. Starting out as a level 2 brain bleed then rapidly a level 4. There was no chance a surgery could fix the bleed. His quality of life would essentially would be nonexistent if we continued medical treatment. He was dwindling quickly around 0715. We made the ultimate decision to pull him off of all medical measures in order to hold him and provide as much to him as he left our world. Asantes NICU team worked tremendously hard for our fighter, baby John. He really wanted to be with us, but was too hurt from the accident. He never stopped trying his entire 16 hours he was earthside, he is resilient and the most beautiful boy. We miss him dearly.

6/5/2023

It is so hard to find the right words to say, but I know “thank yous” are a must. Thank you to everyone who has shared our story in order to raise money in our desperate time of need. Thank you to people who came out of the woodwork and donated. Thank you for every kind word and gesture John and I have received over the past 5 days. We have been overwhelmed with emotions and have found it so hard to respond to everyone individually without mentally breaking down. I will 100% say if we had not have been safe and used our seatbelts…. things would’ve turned out very differently. Please take this very heavily and always tell the ones you love, just that, that you love them. ANY thing can happen in the blink of an eye and in just one single second. It’s very cliche, but until you experience an accident that causes this much destruction, this much despair… it just seems like something that’s not important. We miss baby John and long for him every moment of the day, we have cried for the man that lost his life more than once, but one major fact is, we are still alive. Whether that be due solely to the fact we wore seatbelts responsibly or past loved ones somehow in someway ensured our safety that day, we are still alive and that is what we have woke up and told ourselves every day.

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