WKUanimal
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Hey everybody. I do not post regularly here but from what I've seen before you guys seem like a good group of people. This past weekend on Saturday, a friend of mine, a fellow bodybuilder, was in a very, very bad motorcycle accident. He was airlifted to Vanderbilt Hospital where they put him in critical condition. This is a donation thread to help his cause. DwightSchrute has agreed to rep those who donate.
He has had a very intricate spinal surgery that will blow his $100,000 insurance cap out of the water, on top of the fact that his family is taking time off to care for him. So needless to say his family is in dire need on financial help. Also, the money IS NOT GOING TO ME. You can donate through this national website where the money is sent directly to the family:
CaringBridge / blakeperkins / Tributes - Click Donate Today
We also have a thread running in the Bodybuilding.com forums where we have generated over $500 dollars(the thread starter, Goose102 is a friend of his since middle school):
Best Friend in critical condition - Motorcycle Wreck - Mod reps to highest donations! - Bodybuilding.com Forums
And here is his facebook support page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Support-Page-for-Blake-Perkins/193019510756235
He's a great guy, just got going as a personal trainer and has some killer willpower, but it saddens me to see bad things happen to good people like him.
Here's some parts of the posts from the caringbridge website to give you guys an idea of what hes dealing with:
Any form of donation would be immensely appreciated. Thank you all.
He has had a very intricate spinal surgery that will blow his $100,000 insurance cap out of the water, on top of the fact that his family is taking time off to care for him. So needless to say his family is in dire need on financial help. Also, the money IS NOT GOING TO ME. You can donate through this national website where the money is sent directly to the family:
CaringBridge / blakeperkins / Tributes - Click Donate Today
We also have a thread running in the Bodybuilding.com forums where we have generated over $500 dollars(the thread starter, Goose102 is a friend of his since middle school):
Best Friend in critical condition - Motorcycle Wreck - Mod reps to highest donations! - Bodybuilding.com Forums
And here is his facebook support page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Support-Page-for-Blake-Perkins/193019510756235
He's a great guy, just got going as a personal trainer and has some killer willpower, but it saddens me to see bad things happen to good people like him.
Here's some parts of the posts from the caringbridge website to give you guys an idea of what hes dealing with:
And the man himself:Upon his arrival to the hospital, both of Blake's lungs had collapsed and he had a large amount of internal bleeding. His blood pressure was incredibly low. He immediately went into surgery where the doctors found the main source of bleeding and removed his spleen. They also cleaned out his right leg and splinted it. They determined he had a broken tibia and fibula. He was given two chest tubes, which helped inflate the lungs and remove the fluid. He was placed in the trauma unit and held under critical condition.
His kidneys were not emptying, and he was losing massive amounts of blood internally. They removed his spleen to stop most of the bleeding, but they had to give him at least 14 pints of blood, and 16 plasma infusions just in those first hours. His legs were paralyzed due to a fracture in his spine and trauma swelling. They operated 8 or 9 hours that first day, just trying to get the bleeding stopped and to get his blood pressure up, which was dangerously low. There are only 10-12 pints of blood in the average male body, so you can imagine what a crucial problem this was. They could not close his abdomen for 2 days due to swelling. During his third day of surgery, they finally got it closed.
Another huge problem was his leg. Both legs were mutilated, but one had two compound fractures and was badly twisted. That was the leg that hit the guardrail he flipped off of. It took two days of operations to get bad tissue removed and get the fractures set and the holes closed. He was really close to losing his leg and will have a hard time when his rehabilitation starts. Hopefully it will remain infection free so he can heal.
Any form of donation would be immensely appreciated. Thank you all.
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