Helping Kari with conservatorship
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Hello everyone,
First and foremost I want to thank everyone for all of the love and support we have received since day one of Kenton's accident. Your love is truly overwhelming and I can't express what it means to Brooklyn, Trenton and myself. It's been a very long journey since October 5, 2016. A piece of all of us died that day.
Since that day, we not only find ourselves mourning and grieving over this tragedy without Kenton home and apart of our lives daily, but we also find ourselves in a nightmare- hellish legal battle with Kenton's mother. Since the accident, we opened our home to his mother and sisters. They were provided for and our daughter even gave up her own room where we made his mother comfortable by putting a new bed together for her as well as offered Kenton's car to drive for transportation, and we never asked for any type of compensation as she was looking to stay long term pending Kenton's condition and the outcome of his health. "A mothers love" as they call it- and for that I was understanding and compassionate. Little did I know what was going on in my own home and transpiring behind my back while I was at my husbands bedside in the ICU.
Janet had ulterior motives and pre meditated plans with the help of her daughters the entire few weeks she stayed with me took it upon herself and went to the Riverside courts and filed for conservatorship over MY husband where she lied and under complete false pretense was temporarily granted rights to decisions in his medical care and location. I was not only not notified of this hearing that was held on a Friday but I wasn't even given the chance to petition it before she was granted any rights being that she was granted a hearing that very day. She also attempted to gain rights over our "estate" and financials. The judge could immediately see right through her motives and ill intentions and denied her that access... although while in my home she attempted to go to one of Kenton's banks and close out his account which left a bank account blocked enabling our children and I from having access to any money to be provided for.
Kenton has always been the sole provider for us. Per our agreement, Kenton would pursue his schooling in IT technology and was 2 months away from finishing his masters degree while I cared for our kids and home as a stay at home mother/wife. In late August I got a wonderful job that I truly enjoyed to keep myself busy as an optometrist technician. It was great since both of the kids were in school. At the time of the accident I did not qualify for FMLA and I needed to be there for our children as we did not know what the outcome of Kenton's accident would be and I made the hard but selfless decision to leave my job to cater to Kenton's medical needs, the insane amounts of paperwork that came with this and our children's emotional needs. I am now looking to go back to work as well as school to provide for my kids.
Kenton's accident was beyond tragic and a shock to us all. Kenton suffered from 2 skull fractures, 3 brain bleeds, fractured ribs, a punctured lung, a broken neck (C1-C-2 hangman break) a fractured lumbar and broken back (L-11/L-12) his brain completely detached from his skull during the accident. Kenton also suffered a stroke which left him with hemiplegia of his left side. A once very healthy man who weighed in at 185lbs is now roughly 125lbs. Kenton now suffers from atrophy of the lung, stage 3 kidney disease, severe traumatic brain injury that's now been diagnosed as "diffuse axonal injury." It's almost unbearable and beyond painful for our children and I to see him like this.
Kenton and I have raised our children in Riverside county for the last 7 years. During Kenton's stay at a hospital in Riverside county they decided that there was no more they could do for him in ICU and that we would have to move him to a skilled nursing home. Without many options available- Janet chose to move him to El Cajon San Diego with a false promise of trying to move him closer to our home and back in Riverside county pending a bed becoming available. She has made it very difficult for our children and I to visit with "dad" as it's become a stressful 3 hour round trip drive, and she very rarely grants us any privacy. Not to mention the quality of care (or lack of) at his current nursing home. During Kenton's stay at this particular nursing home since November, Kenton has suffered from the following:
* 12-15 ER visits
* 10 (minimum) UTIs
* Countless ER trips for dehydration
* Bedsores
* Boils
* A blood pressure that dropped to 75 (critical)
* Falling out of bed causing excessive bleeding and bruising
* MRSA
* Pneumonia
* C-Diff
* Sepsis
.... this is just to name a few...
My sole mission of creating this account is to kindly ask for help. I'm seeking any help with our attorney fees So I can continue to fight for Kenton. My sole goal is to move Kenton back to Riverside County where he would be closer to his family and where he'd be receiving better care. Kenton would absolutely NOT condone this sickening, selfish, narcissistic, and betrayal behavior from his mother or sisters. They've selfishly disregarded our children and myself as Kenton's wife. I have been under a microscope and I will never do enough for be enough in their eyes. However- I am certain that Kenton would be proud of the mother I am and making sure they are taken care of financially, spiritually, and emotionally during this time. I can't begin to explain the innocent grief that my poor kids have had the endure over the last 6 months at such a young age and the countless nights I lay with our daughter as she cries and aches for her daddy who is absent from our life. It's overwhelming and painful and it's a void that I can't fill myself. He's not replaceable.
Kenton was a special forces marine veteran and is also entitled to his VA health benefits. I have done all of the work to get things lined up for him and into the VA healthcare system and his mother insists on keeping him in a facility that he will inevitably die in if I don't get him out. Kenton is without a doubt suffering and in pain. These girls have used VERY private pictures of Kenton in a vegetative state and videos of him- humiliating him all over the Internet to make a dime off of him- as if he is a puppet for money and a free hand out. A marine veteran should go through this with dignity and respect and our children deserve to be respected as well. They've used pictures of our children to gain sympathy and money that is being used to further HURT our children and keep their father away. A tragedy that should have brought a family closer... didn't. Selfishly, they chose to let it divide us. His mother has not only lied and manipulated the entire story to the courts and anyone that's been kind enough to listen from a place of empathy, but she has also written off both of our children (her grandchildren) and abandoned them when they were seeking much needed love, attention, and affection.
I wish I could go into more detail with what these "women" have done to our children and myself but this has now become a serious legal matter and is pending a trial and this has become a HUGE burden that can cost up to $15,000 for us. Our next court hearing will be in June which will be a discovery hearing with evidence to support our case and our voice will be heard and further more what I know to be Kenton's wishes will hopefully be granted. As a mother I felt as though I was making the right decision to be with our children who've not only excelled in school since the accident, but I also made sure they're both in sports Brooke will start piano and voice lessons and we are also going to be starting a grief counseling program to help us all navigate through this emotional rollercoaster.
The fact of the matter: Kenton has a family who all loves him and is missing him immensely. Including a mother, his father, his sisters, he has two step parents and most importantly myself and our children. Court is so far from necessary during this time of grief and despair, for all of us. There is no "winner" here and this will not change the outcome of Kenton's medical condition. But I am fighting for my husband. Fighting to get him closer and fighting to protect our children from someone who is attempting to take everything we have. I'm fighting for better care and for him to be respected and go through this with dignity and privacy. If you find it in your heart to help us, even with a small donation or sharing of our campaign to spread the word for the rights I deserve as Kenton's wife... these donations will be going towards our attorney fees. We have an attorney who is fighting for us and for Kenton out of Riverside county. The court fees, filing fees and attorney fees are astronomical. The children and I (and Kenton) would be forever grateful for any help. Thank you again for your time and support and reading our story and carrying us through this nightmare. No words could hold true to our sincere gratitude.
Much love,
Kenton, Kari, Brooklyn, and Trenton
If you would like to donate directly without a % of your donation taken out from us, you can do so via PayPal as a gift. My email
Address is: [e-mail editado]
Please allow me to introduce my amazing and beautiful family to you before we were torn apart:
https://vimeo.com/19192994
First and foremost I want to thank everyone for all of the love and support we have received since day one of Kenton's accident. Your love is truly overwhelming and I can't express what it means to Brooklyn, Trenton and myself. It's been a very long journey since October 5, 2016. A piece of all of us died that day.
Since that day, we not only find ourselves mourning and grieving over this tragedy without Kenton home and apart of our lives daily, but we also find ourselves in a nightmare- hellish legal battle with Kenton's mother. Since the accident, we opened our home to his mother and sisters. They were provided for and our daughter even gave up her own room where we made his mother comfortable by putting a new bed together for her as well as offered Kenton's car to drive for transportation, and we never asked for any type of compensation as she was looking to stay long term pending Kenton's condition and the outcome of his health. "A mothers love" as they call it- and for that I was understanding and compassionate. Little did I know what was going on in my own home and transpiring behind my back while I was at my husbands bedside in the ICU.
Janet had ulterior motives and pre meditated plans with the help of her daughters the entire few weeks she stayed with me took it upon herself and went to the Riverside courts and filed for conservatorship over MY husband where she lied and under complete false pretense was temporarily granted rights to decisions in his medical care and location. I was not only not notified of this hearing that was held on a Friday but I wasn't even given the chance to petition it before she was granted any rights being that she was granted a hearing that very day. She also attempted to gain rights over our "estate" and financials. The judge could immediately see right through her motives and ill intentions and denied her that access... although while in my home she attempted to go to one of Kenton's banks and close out his account which left a bank account blocked enabling our children and I from having access to any money to be provided for.
Kenton has always been the sole provider for us. Per our agreement, Kenton would pursue his schooling in IT technology and was 2 months away from finishing his masters degree while I cared for our kids and home as a stay at home mother/wife. In late August I got a wonderful job that I truly enjoyed to keep myself busy as an optometrist technician. It was great since both of the kids were in school. At the time of the accident I did not qualify for FMLA and I needed to be there for our children as we did not know what the outcome of Kenton's accident would be and I made the hard but selfless decision to leave my job to cater to Kenton's medical needs, the insane amounts of paperwork that came with this and our children's emotional needs. I am now looking to go back to work as well as school to provide for my kids.
Kenton's accident was beyond tragic and a shock to us all. Kenton suffered from 2 skull fractures, 3 brain bleeds, fractured ribs, a punctured lung, a broken neck (C1-C-2 hangman break) a fractured lumbar and broken back (L-11/L-12) his brain completely detached from his skull during the accident. Kenton also suffered a stroke which left him with hemiplegia of his left side. A once very healthy man who weighed in at 185lbs is now roughly 125lbs. Kenton now suffers from atrophy of the lung, stage 3 kidney disease, severe traumatic brain injury that's now been diagnosed as "diffuse axonal injury." It's almost unbearable and beyond painful for our children and I to see him like this.
Kenton and I have raised our children in Riverside county for the last 7 years. During Kenton's stay at a hospital in Riverside county they decided that there was no more they could do for him in ICU and that we would have to move him to a skilled nursing home. Without many options available- Janet chose to move him to El Cajon San Diego with a false promise of trying to move him closer to our home and back in Riverside county pending a bed becoming available. She has made it very difficult for our children and I to visit with "dad" as it's become a stressful 3 hour round trip drive, and she very rarely grants us any privacy. Not to mention the quality of care (or lack of) at his current nursing home. During Kenton's stay at this particular nursing home since November, Kenton has suffered from the following:
* 12-15 ER visits
* 10 (minimum) UTIs
* Countless ER trips for dehydration
* Bedsores
* Boils
* A blood pressure that dropped to 75 (critical)
* Falling out of bed causing excessive bleeding and bruising
* MRSA
* Pneumonia
* C-Diff
* Sepsis
.... this is just to name a few...
My sole mission of creating this account is to kindly ask for help. I'm seeking any help with our attorney fees So I can continue to fight for Kenton. My sole goal is to move Kenton back to Riverside County where he would be closer to his family and where he'd be receiving better care. Kenton would absolutely NOT condone this sickening, selfish, narcissistic, and betrayal behavior from his mother or sisters. They've selfishly disregarded our children and myself as Kenton's wife. I have been under a microscope and I will never do enough for be enough in their eyes. However- I am certain that Kenton would be proud of the mother I am and making sure they are taken care of financially, spiritually, and emotionally during this time. I can't begin to explain the innocent grief that my poor kids have had the endure over the last 6 months at such a young age and the countless nights I lay with our daughter as she cries and aches for her daddy who is absent from our life. It's overwhelming and painful and it's a void that I can't fill myself. He's not replaceable.
Kenton was a special forces marine veteran and is also entitled to his VA health benefits. I have done all of the work to get things lined up for him and into the VA healthcare system and his mother insists on keeping him in a facility that he will inevitably die in if I don't get him out. Kenton is without a doubt suffering and in pain. These girls have used VERY private pictures of Kenton in a vegetative state and videos of him- humiliating him all over the Internet to make a dime off of him- as if he is a puppet for money and a free hand out. A marine veteran should go through this with dignity and respect and our children deserve to be respected as well. They've used pictures of our children to gain sympathy and money that is being used to further HURT our children and keep their father away. A tragedy that should have brought a family closer... didn't. Selfishly, they chose to let it divide us. His mother has not only lied and manipulated the entire story to the courts and anyone that's been kind enough to listen from a place of empathy, but she has also written off both of our children (her grandchildren) and abandoned them when they were seeking much needed love, attention, and affection.
I wish I could go into more detail with what these "women" have done to our children and myself but this has now become a serious legal matter and is pending a trial and this has become a HUGE burden that can cost up to $15,000 for us. Our next court hearing will be in June which will be a discovery hearing with evidence to support our case and our voice will be heard and further more what I know to be Kenton's wishes will hopefully be granted. As a mother I felt as though I was making the right decision to be with our children who've not only excelled in school since the accident, but I also made sure they're both in sports Brooke will start piano and voice lessons and we are also going to be starting a grief counseling program to help us all navigate through this emotional rollercoaster.
The fact of the matter: Kenton has a family who all loves him and is missing him immensely. Including a mother, his father, his sisters, he has two step parents and most importantly myself and our children. Court is so far from necessary during this time of grief and despair, for all of us. There is no "winner" here and this will not change the outcome of Kenton's medical condition. But I am fighting for my husband. Fighting to get him closer and fighting to protect our children from someone who is attempting to take everything we have. I'm fighting for better care and for him to be respected and go through this with dignity and privacy. If you find it in your heart to help us, even with a small donation or sharing of our campaign to spread the word for the rights I deserve as Kenton's wife... these donations will be going towards our attorney fees. We have an attorney who is fighting for us and for Kenton out of Riverside county. The court fees, filing fees and attorney fees are astronomical. The children and I (and Kenton) would be forever grateful for any help. Thank you again for your time and support and reading our story and carrying us through this nightmare. No words could hold true to our sincere gratitude.
Much love,
Kenton, Kari, Brooklyn, and Trenton
If you would like to donate directly without a % of your donation taken out from us, you can do so via PayPal as a gift. My email
Address is: [e-mail editado]
Please allow me to introduce my amazing and beautiful family to you before we were torn apart:
https://vimeo.com/19192994
Organizadora
Kari Leigh
Organizadora
Lake Elsinore, CA
