I don't usually ask for help but my friends teen son was in a horrible accident and she could use some support. Her name is Brandy and she is from Myrtle Point. This is her story written by her.

As most of you know, Jaxen, my boy, was in a longboarding accident on Sunday the 23rd. His friends saw it happen and called 911. Before the ambulance showed up he started having a seizure. He fought the emts so hard they had to sedate him to be able to get him to the hospital. His injuries to his head were so severe he ended up being life flighted to OHSU in Portland. I dropped everything packed a small bag of things and drove up. We came into the hospital to him in a medically induced coma. He was kept that way until he was able to be woken up on Tuesday. He was moved to a different part of the hospital out of the ICU. Everything looked to be going good. He had to be strapped to the bed to try and prevent him from taking his neck brace off and he was fighting that and managed to get it off still quite a few times. Our goals were to just get the neck brace off and for him to eat and drink and poo before we could go home. Well Wednesday night he got a really high fever and his blood pressure shot up and stayed for a couple hours. He started saying some weird things and then right in front of us he turned his head, started making wierd noises, stuff was coming out of his nose and mouth, quit breathing and went code blue. Scariest thing I've ever been through. Pretty sure I had just watched my boy die. (My parents and his little sister were there too) They rushed us out of the room while they worked to get him intubated and stable enough to move back to the ICU. Since Wednesday the 26th my boy had been back in a medically induced coma and were still not sure when he's gonna wake up. We've had alot of things happen during this time. He's had to have a bolt put it to monitor his ICPs. (inter cranial pressures) He's had an EEG on monitoring brainwaves to see if it could've been caused by a seizure but found no seizure activity still ruled that out. And we're able to remove the EEG. When his pressures kept getting too high and the medications weren't helping to lower them, he had to have a drain placed into his brain to release some fluids to hopefully help with the pressure. They found mrsa in an IV site so he had to have surgery to remove part of a blood vein where the mrsa was. He's on antibiotics for that and we've finally got some negative results. He got pneumonia and they found another strain of staph in them and is on antibiotics for that now. His meds were switched to a type that suppresses the brain so the EEG had to be placed again. They tried to do a spinal tap, because pressures kept getting high and medications seemed to not be working, but were unable to do the procedure because when they layed him flat and rolled him over he started having difficulty breathing and his pressures shot up. They were able to do a CT on his lungs though and found he had a hardened blockage so they had to put a drain tube in to drain his lungs. The first tube ended up getting plugged up so they had to put in a bigger tube.

Today, Wednesday July 3rd, was his first ok day for brain pressures holding steady. It's been a whole week now and I still don't have an answer as to what happened last Wednesday. They say they just don't know. Could've been a number of things, the medication he was on, the neck brace holding fluids up not letting them drain, along with his fever and high blood pressure. No one knows for sure. He needs to be stable for a few days and able to control pressures and breathing on his own before they even think about waking him up so we just don't know when they will be able to try.

I have been up here with things this whole time and unable to work and I'm stressed out. My friends have set up this fundraiser for me and I'm am so grateful to everyone who has donated or shared or sent prayers for us and my boy. I appreciate everyone for everything they are doing for us. Our community is amazing and I hope you all know that

!Brandy Abel were praying for you guys.