Help Alex through his recovery
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Hi, my name is Jessica and I'm trying to raise funds to help my brother. He was in a terrible motorcycle accident on September 16th 2021. He was driving through the mountains around Estes park with a couple friends. While going up the mountain he had lost control of the bike and would either hit a truck head on or go off the side of the mountain. Not wanting a guaranteed death he went off the mountain.
He then was thrown off the motorcycle going 50mps and ended up having his body thrown into a tree. Thankfully he was wearing a helmet and survived. Once he woke up he was surrounded by people and hardly able to breathe, it took the paramedics 30 minutes to get to him and when they did they had to straighten his leg and rush him to the hospital. Once there he had x-rays and it was discovered he had broken his femur in 2 places on his left leg, broke the right side of his pelvis/hip, also breaking his tailbone and 3 vertebrae. They needed to transport him to a larger hospital but could not stabilize him. In that time he received 3 blood transfusions before being air lifted to a larger hospital. There he had emergency surgery on the left femur to stop the bleeding and to repair the bone. They inserted a metal rod through the femur and gave him another unit of blood. On the 18th of September they performed a second surgery with a specialist and 2 surgeons to repair his pelvis while receiving another 2 units of blood.
He was told multiple times by doctors it's amazing he's still here, without that helmet he wouldn't be and that he had broken 2 of the 3 largest bones in his body. He was in the hospital a total of 22 days and in that time he had blood and plasma transfusions and had developed pneumonia which was extremly tough on his body.
During this time he has been out of work and I have been helping him with all of his needs including therapy we were shown in the hospital. He's been home a week today with no physical therapy other than what we were shown to help him walk because of insurance. He can currently put 50% of his weight on his left leg but due to nerve damage in his knee he can't do that. They're saying he may need surgery to repair the damage soon. His right leg he can't put any weight or pressure due to the fracture in his pelvis. They estimate at least 3 months before we can attempt any weight on that leg. He has been out of work since the accident and can't pay any of his monthly bills. We're trying to find a way to pay for the physical and occupational therapy as he needs that to be able to move again. We also need to buy him a new bed that isn't 10+ years old because he's having difficulty moving in and out of the old bed and it's causing him pain in all his injuries so he's been unable to sleep more than a couple hours at a time. It has been tough driving an hour one way just to get to him in the hospital and now for appointments due to the location of the accident and the pain that he's in. We don't expect anything from anyone but anything helps and is greatly appreciated.
Organizer and beneficiary
Jessica LeDoux
Organizer
Thornton, CO
Alexander LeDoux
Beneficiary