Support Gabriel's Fight for Recovery

This is Gabriel, an amazingly sweet, caring, strong, and wonderful person. A peer amongst friends, a light in our little family that consists of his mom, his big brother, and his cat Mr. Dooms, and a beautiful soul all around. About five weeks ago, Gabe was in an accident while riding his bike on his way to work. A garbage truck he thought was going to turn into traffic had cut across the street at just the wrong moment. Gabriel couldn't brake in time and ended up going under the truck. His left leg and right foot were squished, and his left ankle fractured. We were incredibly lucky it wasn't worse, unfortunately, our luck turned when his left leg became infected with a flesh-eating bacteria called "Necrotizing Fasciitis".

In a matter of hours, the infection caused a large patch of skin and tissue on his left leg to die. He was sent from an instacare (with a mild fever) to the ER and from the ER, life flighted to Children's Primary Hospital into surgery in attempts to save his leg and his life. Since then, Gabe has undergone 5 surgeries, lost approximately 12x12 inches of skin and tissue and at this point, we are waiting, one surgery at a time, one moment at a time, to see where this terrible journey is going to end. The teams at Primary Children's are working diligently to save as much of his leg as possible and until we can get to a point of wound closures, there is still the possibility of leg or life loss.

Our world has been overturned and we are reaching out for monetary support for help taking some of the stresses off him, his care needs, his family, and our lives.