Daddy Dillon's Disaster Relief
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This is my brother Scott Dillon on Father's Day with the light of his life, his daughter Elliott. Since the day she was born, she has been the focus of his world and almost everything he does is for his daughter. The last time I spoke to him, on July 6th, he was excited because he just purchased a new car (his first in over a decade) so he would be able to travel more often to see Elliott who lives with her mother in Brooklyn. He was dreaming about car camping with her in his new Honda Element, purchasing the car tent needed to complement his package. My brother and I are both leading busy lives and per our usual, we scheduled a Zoom meet up to get caught up for the next day. He never got on the call. When he missed the meeting, I figured he may have got wrapped up in another activity. He collapsed on his front porch approximately one hour after texting me that morning.
Scott suffered a hemorrhagic stroke on July 7th. Currently, he is in a neurological critical care unit fighting to come back to us. Although he arrived to the hospital quickly after collapsing, a bleeding stroke is more severe than throwing a clot to your brain. When the clot is not bleeding, a medical team can dissolve the clot rather quickly and reverse the cerebral incident. With a brain bleed, recovery is more difficult and cumbersome. Although Scott is showing positive signs in his recovery period such as following commands, squeezing your hand, and reacting to videos of his daughter, he is still on a ventilator and has a device in his skull to help drain blood from his brain.
Like many people, Scott's ability to earn money became severely limited in this pandemic lockdown. He was self employed working on design, supplemented his income through renting rooms in his home as an Air B and B host, and worked at night serving tables in Detroit. He does have health insurance but his plan has very limited coverage. His recovery period will be long, expensive, and has a high probability of leaving him with a residual disability.
Scott has been working hard to help revitalize Detroit into a better community. He organized the Walk In Theater to show free movies in the park next to the Detroit Institute of Arts. He always had a smile for everyone he met and has the uncanny ability to make anyone feel special. He is the kind of person who would give a meal to someone who needed it before feeding himself. He has more compassion than most, keeps himself educated and active on current issues, and would be one of the first people who would organize a fundraiser for someone else in need.
This Go Fund Me page will help pay for Scott's future needs as he goes through this long term recovery process.
Please donate what you can and forward this Go Fund Me page to everyone you know. He has helped so many throughout the years. We all love Scott Dillon and we need to help him now.
Scott suffered a hemorrhagic stroke on July 7th. Currently, he is in a neurological critical care unit fighting to come back to us. Although he arrived to the hospital quickly after collapsing, a bleeding stroke is more severe than throwing a clot to your brain. When the clot is not bleeding, a medical team can dissolve the clot rather quickly and reverse the cerebral incident. With a brain bleed, recovery is more difficult and cumbersome. Although Scott is showing positive signs in his recovery period such as following commands, squeezing your hand, and reacting to videos of his daughter, he is still on a ventilator and has a device in his skull to help drain blood from his brain.
Like many people, Scott's ability to earn money became severely limited in this pandemic lockdown. He was self employed working on design, supplemented his income through renting rooms in his home as an Air B and B host, and worked at night serving tables in Detroit. He does have health insurance but his plan has very limited coverage. His recovery period will be long, expensive, and has a high probability of leaving him with a residual disability.
Scott has been working hard to help revitalize Detroit into a better community. He organized the Walk In Theater to show free movies in the park next to the Detroit Institute of Arts. He always had a smile for everyone he met and has the uncanny ability to make anyone feel special. He is the kind of person who would give a meal to someone who needed it before feeding himself. He has more compassion than most, keeps himself educated and active on current issues, and would be one of the first people who would organize a fundraiser for someone else in need.
This Go Fund Me page will help pay for Scott's future needs as he goes through this long term recovery process.
Please donate what you can and forward this Go Fund Me page to everyone you know. He has helped so many throughout the years. We all love Scott Dillon and we need to help him now.
Organizer
Cats Keen
Organizer
Columbus, OH