Hey everyone.

Some may know, I’ve recently been in an accident at the barn, where a horse I was leading from pasture spooked, kicked, and struck me in the face. I somehow got very lucky and lived.

Thankfully, someone was there to get help and call 9-1-1, and I was taken to St. Al’s by ambulance. I received the full trauma patient experience—all the IV needles, wearing a C-collar to stabilize my head, my clothes being cut away from my body so that they could check me over and place their sticky pads for their monitoring devices. I spent about 5 minutes in a CT scan for my neck and head. Not the best experience, but I could calm down a bit knowing I was in the hospital. It felt safe. I could breathe easier knowing that if anything should turn for the worse, someone knowledgeable was there.

My partner, Luke, and my best friend, Angela, were called, and they rushed to see me while I was in the ER. Both their faces tried to hide the shock, but I could see it. I was very swollen. I couldn’t even open my right eye, and my left was maybe halfway closed as well.

Eventually, a trauma doctor came in and told me my neck was fine, so I was finally free from the C-collar. And another hour later, I was told I had a broken nose, multiple facial bone fractures, a concussion, and needed stitches to the lacerations on my right eyelid and bridge of my nose.

After getting 12 stitches in my swollen face, I was then admitted to the hospital to be monitored overnight. They said ‘brain bleed’ at some point in the ER but never mentioned it again, so I assume that was what they were monitoring me for.

The next day, I was feeling better—more myself. I was in a lot of pain throughout the night, so sleep didn’t come easy, but they were talking like I could go home later that afternoon.

After all the different therapists came through—mental health, occupational therapy, physical therapy, etc.—they finally gave us our discharge papers, put me in a wheelchair, and wheeled me out the front doors to go home.

It all felt like a dream. Like I’d just wake up the next day and go right back to my normal life and routine. Still does to this day, really.

I’ve been healing well, the swelling is going down, and I’ve been needing painkillers less and less (staying as far away from the oxycodone as possible).

And I’ve been so thankful that friends and family have offered help in so many different ways.

When Luke needed to go to work, and I couldn’t really walk well enough around our apartment, Taylor came over and talked with me for hours. She helped me when I needed to get up and helped around the apartment a bit as well. Friends offered to bring food, to drive me to appointments, and urged me to start this GoFundMe.

Now, I’m an aspiring entrepreneur with a massage therapy business and an aspiring local Boise artist business. I also work as a Licensed Massage Therapist at Elements Bown Crossing near downtown Boise. Due to the nature of my jobs and the extent of my injuries…I’m not too sure when I’ll be able to go back to work. At this point, I have lost about $600 of income in one week. My boyfriend, Luke, has picked up extra shifts at his line cooking job downtown, in preparation to make up some extra funds for rent, and he is a hard worker. If you ask him, he’ll say he’s fine and not to worry, but I just worry anyway. He’s having to cover for me in expenses, take care of me, and with the looming non-insured medical bills soon to drop, I think this will take more from him than he’s bargaining for. So with the help and gentle pushing of good friends, I’m asking my local community for help.

The money raised from this GoFundMe will be used for either living expenses or medical payments. $1,600 would cover one month of our rent, $700 would cover one month of our groceries roughly.

If you can, we would very much appreciate your financial support.

It would take some of the heavy load off of Luke’s shoulders and would make healing a bit easier for me, knowing our basic needs were taken care of until I can get back to work.

Thank you for reading, and thank you, thank you, thank you for your support!

If you are interested in either of my businesses, I have art for sale on FineArtAmerica.com- Summer Marie Lindstrom, and my massage business is findable on Massagebook.com- Spirit Soma Therapy.