Support Stan Brosko's Road to Recovery

My name is Vickey and I am organizing a Go Fund Me Campaign looking to help a dear friend and colleague, Stan Brosko. Stan has worked as a long-haul truck driver for Armellini Express Lines for 37 years and he just received a certificate for being accident free for 36 years. Stan loves life and he sure did love his job being a trucker. You would actually hear him say often that work was like going on vacation every week while being home was more like work (his wife loved giving him her honey do list). You would also hear him say he would keep on working until he couldn’t; trucking was his life, he never wanted to retire.

Stan is one of the nicest people I know. He is always thinking of others and he is always giving something to somebody. Stan also loves to just talk to random people, he can strike up a conversation with anybody, he’s just that kind of guy. Stan was always an active guy at work as well as at home. You would always find Stan riding his bike or walking in the woods, he loved getting out in nature and he loved to travel and do things on his days off. He is a one-of-a-kind kinda guy who loves making spontaneous last-minute plans to go off on another adventure and have fun in the sun. He always hated being cooped up in the house, so to see him now laid up in a bed for almost 6 months is heartbreaking.

Stan was in a terrible motorcycle/trike accident with his wife Mari Parsons on Easter Sunday March 31st. Both were ejected from their Trike motorcycle bike. Unfortunately, Mari passed away and Stan was airlifted to the nearby trauma hospital. Stan suffered a lot of life altering injuries, including a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). It’s honestly a miracle that he is alive today with all that he sustained. He’s one tough dude!

While Stan was at Holmes Regional in Melbourne he lived on a ventilator in the ICU for 2 weeks. His left lung was collapsed, he broke his right femur, broke 3 ribs, fractured his neck, fractured his skull, fractured both his orbital bones, fractured his nose, his upper mandible came unattached in his mouth where he found his mouth wired shut for 7 weeks, he broke the tip of his tailbone, shattered his pelvis and if all that wasn’t enough, he ended up having a stroke in the ICU that first 24 hours. The stroke has left him unable to move his left side which has been hindering his progression for a speedier recovery, along with getting quite a few bouts of pneumonia.

Stan now finds himself still in a neck brace, with a trach and a feeding tube. He is in need of physical, occupational and speech therapy to regain his life back. He has been to 4 different facilities over the course of 5 months. After 5 months being at these care facilities, he has become stable enough to return close to his Sebastian home and move in with his daughter Jamie and son in law John Dunson in Vero Beach. Unfortunately, he needs 24-hour care and is unable to perform every day general life functions and skills. His daughter and son in law have done everything possible in making their home as handicapped accessible as they could by renovating a nice room for him, widening his bedroom door, adding a wheelchair ramp at the front door, clearing ways around the house so Stans wheelchair will have enough space to get around and for all the equipment he needs for daily living to keep him going. His daughter felt lead to quit her job to take care of Stan because “she didn’t want him rotting away in a nursing facility”. She has also said, “that dad took care of her during her challenging years so now it's her turn to take care of him”. This family is so independent and proud that they would never ask for help on a Go Fund Me page, therefore I am reaching out on their behalf. The need for financial donations would help assist with his hefty load of medical bills, medical equipment, wheelchair transportation fees to doctor appointments when needed, future home care assistance and all the much-needed supplies that he uses on the daily. Stan is currently receiving physical therapy twice a week for 30-40 mins and now his insurance is trying to bring that down to once a week, which is quite sad considering the situation he is in and needs more ongoing PT to get stronger so he can eventually get out of bed.

Anyone who wishes to help support the care of Stan can donate to the Go Fund Me account set up here. This will all help provide his family with assistance to support his very long road to recovery but if there is any man who can recover from this, it is our dear friend Stan. He has such a strong desire to get better, making small strides every day and thinking positive. There was a time that Stan was unable to speak due to his mouth being wired, but he can now carry on a small conversation with his Passy Muir valve. His movement is very limited but the family believes he will get through this with the help of Jesus. What the whole family (Stan Jr, his girlfriend Brooks, new baby grandson Jackson, John, Jamie, granddaughter Lily Dunson, step sons Skylar and Hayden) brings is motivation to get better, much love and encouragement for their dad to improve. He is in a much better place now where he can heal. Stan wants everyone to know that he is thankful for the cards he has received and says to keep up the prayers!!

THANK YOU FOR ANY AND ALL DONATIONS, CARDS, GIFT CARDS, YOUR SUPPORT AND/OR PRAYERS!!!