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Just trying to put a little something aside for my brother’s kids. He didn’t have much to give or leave them. My Mother came home to find my father waiting in the driveway, we have to go to Salt Lake, something has happened to David.
I got a txt at 12:55, to call my father immediately. “Something has happened to David and it doesn’t look good.”
With the help of the airlines (you don’t hear that too often), my Mother and Father traveled from Kentucky. My wife and I traveled from Virginia. By midnight, all of us were at David’s side at Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was being kept alive with the use of a breathing machine. We were informed that David had suffered a traumatic brain injury and it was irreversible.
Our Mother sat with David until the next morning when the doctors came in to administer one last “brain function” test. At 11:47 a.m., Friday 7 September 2018, David was considered brain dead.
Knowing my brother’s wishes, we immediately, began the process of organ donation. We will probably never know who or where, but we do know late Saturday 8 September, someone got the call they had been waiting for. “We have a heart”, for you. Whoever you maybe, you now have a heart and it was a “big” heart. As our Mother would say, “David never knew a stranger.” With his organ donation, this will never be so true.
Now, we as a family, have begun the one day at a time process of moving on. My Mother, is still in a state of shock and so I am the one putting this request together.
We always talk about making sure we provide for our children while at the same time forgetting that we truly never know what tomorrow holds for us. David, didn’t have a lot to give or leave to his children so I am hoping with your help, I can put a little something aside for them and to help my Mother with the final expenses.
I respectfully and humbly ask for your help.