
Urgent Aid for Gabriel Kai's Medical Expenses
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This involves my 15-year-old son Gabriel Kai. He was a passenger in the car that got hit... the driver ran a stop sign and the oncoming car ran into the side my son was sitting on. My son's girlfriend's mother called me saying that Gabe was in a car accident and being life-lifted by helicopter to the Dallas Children's Hospital... I was asking myself, how can this be? He just gave me a hug and a kiss, telling me bye and that he loved me an hour before I received this horrifying, and a mother's worst nightmare phone call... just how? In that moment of her telling me this, I screamed and time froze. I was a wreck... I ran home to find out everything and immediately drove down to the Dallas Children's Hospital. The doctors took me into the side room, telling me that his skull was severely broken/fractured in several areas, including above and underneath his eye... he had a collapsed lung from the internal bleeding, so they had to give him a blood transfusion... his brain was/is severely swollen, so they placed/thrilled wires into his skull... to keep the brain swelling at bay. He also had seizures almost immediately after the impact at the accident scene due to the damage to his brain... The neurosurgeons said they will have to perform surgery to fix his skull in a couple of weeks because his skull is severely fractured. He's still in an induced coma, and in the ICU... it will be a long, hard road for his recovery for my sweet boy... And, of course, I found out yesterday that the driver didn't have car insurance, and that she ran the stop sign. Anyone that knows me knows that I do not like to ask anyone for anything, even when I'm in need. But this is very urgent and it leaves me with no other choice. I'm very scared. The helicopter ride alone will be financially devastating for me.
Any help is greatly appreciated, from the bottom of my heart and soul.
Thank you all for the emotional support as well.
Much love and appreciation for you all.
Tanja.
Organizer
tanja hernandez
Organizer
Lindale, TX