Handicapped accessible van for Chris!

Hello im Debra Weber and Chris is my big brother! We would like to raise money inorder to purchase a handicapped accessible van for him. After this accident my fun loving brother is completely changed but still manages to keep a smile on his face while he fights every single day! For those who don't know this is my brothers story!

July 23, 2021 my brother was reported missing in virgina where he was living at the time. He was last seen on his bike July 22 around 11:30pm and he told his girlfriend he was heading home.. he never made it. With the help of pinging his cell phone, police and search parties on foot, as well as a helicopter he was found over 40 hours later. He was lying in a tree line with his bike on one side of him. He was unconscious but breathing! He was flown flight for life to Duke University hospital in North Carolina. The extent of his injuries were grave and they told us to prepare for the worst. After what seemed like years they were finally able to assess all of his injuries. At this time my brother was still in a coma. His kidneys were starting to shut down and dialysis had been started to try and save them. Doctors said that he had suffered a diffused anonxial brain injury and compared the damage to that of shaken baby syndrome. He also suffered the following:

1. a bilateral SAH with ventricular blood ( bleeding between the brain and surrounding membranes)

2. Right frontal IPH ( bleeding within the brain itself)

3.Rhabdodomyolyisis ( muscle breakdown that caused his kidneys to fail)

4. Sepsis

5. 3 blood clots in his right leg

6. Left side pneumothorax ( collapsed lung)

7. Left maxillary fracture ( his sinuses)

8. Right clavicle fracture

9. Compression fractures of t9 and t12 (back fractures)

10. T1 fracture (back)

11. L4 spinious process fracture (back)

Chris has gone through at least 15 surgeries and 5 blood transfusions. Most of the surgeries were to remove Narcotic tissue from his side and to have a tube inserted on the top of his head to relieve pressure. The doctors were 99% sure that Chris wasn't going to make it or even awaken from his a coma. They told us that if he did wake up that he would be In a vegetative state for the remainder of his life. However, my brother is a fighter. He has beaten all odds. He did wake up after 3 weeks. He endured brain storming and extreme sensitivity to lights, loud noises, and too much going on around him. But that never stopped him from continuing to fight!

Chris's hospital stay was a very long 12 weeks. Our mother never left his side and had to make the most difficult of decisions. Her support aided my brother to keep fighting. She always reminded him how much he was l0ved by his siblings, parents, and how much his baby girl needed him. After his hospital stay he was then transfered to a rehab facility for 4 weeks. finally, a medical helicopter was able to fly him and our mom back home to Colorado from north Carolina. He now is bound to a wheel chair, requires 24 hour care and has to wear oxygen. He has come such a long way ! He is laughing, joking, telling stories, and remembering more and more things about his life. He has good days and bad days where sometimes the hallucinations over take him. He is a one and a million survivor. In fact, he's the only known case to have the extent of his injuries and still be here with us talking, laughing, and continuing to get stronger.

We are needing a wheelchair accessible van for doctors appointments and so that my brother can get out and see the world again. He has hardly been able to get out of the house and it's starting to wear on him and my mother who is his full time caregiver. We would be unbelievably grateful to give them a chance at having a better "normal".