[Noisebridge-discuss] Fwd: Hollis Hawthorne and Harrison need you...

[Praveen Sinha]

Hey guys,

Sorry for forwarding this partially off-topic email... But there may
be people at noisebridge that have more medical hookups than I do and
may be able to help out.

Let me know if you can put me in touch....

Cheers,
Praveen


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: jen colasuonno <idancewithfire at yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:28 PM
Subject: Fwd: Hollis Hawthorne and Harrison need you...


Hey friends,

Longer story below and on friendsofhollis.blogspot.com---> Short story follows:

Our friend Hollis has been in a horrible motorcycle accident in India
and is in a coma with a severe brain stem injury. We are trying to get
her on an Air Ambulance from  Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, India to
Stanford Hospital here in California.

If you know anyone in the Air Ambulance industry or a doctor who could
volunteer their time to come and get her and fly her to Stanford -
PLEASE CONTACT US!

We also need to raise $150,000 dollars for the Air Ambulance. Go to
friendsofhollis.blogspot.com and it has a donate button on it.

Thank you for your help!!!

love,
jen


www.jencolasuonno.com
www.lunfan.com
www.foufouha.com

"Don't ask what the world needs,
Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
- Howard Thurman



Forward this along everybody...Go team.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Harrison Wild <harrisonisalive at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Subject: Hollis Hawthorne and Harrison need you...



       Hello friends and family,
   So as many of you know, and many of you don't as I have not even
talked to you in a while.  I am in the midst of a crazy tragedy here
in southern India.  I was travelling with my sweetheart Hollis by
motorcycle and the worst possible scenario has unfolded.  She was in
an accident that took a freak turn and I will spare you the gory
details (and they are gory) but end result, she is in a coma with the
most serious injury one can sustain.  She has a serious brain stem
injury.  This is the part of the brain that controls and is connected
to everything.  The accident happened at 11:30 am on Tuesday Feb.
24th, it is now 5:30 am on Monday March 2nd as I am writing this (I
don't sleep).  This is what's going on...  The treatment she is
receiving is okay, for India.  There are however huge rats scurrying
about on the floor.  I am sleeping on the ant covered floor outside
her room as I am not allowed in and the water they have used for many
procedures is not even purified.  Today as the final straw they would
not allow her own mother who has just flown here from Tennessee with
emergency support from the US consulate to see her own daughter when
she inquired.  She has been allowed some of the time but they sort of
shame you/ are mean to you to make you not ask for visitation.  They
are not observing her brain pressure and have done nothing to
alleviate the swelling in her brain.  These are things that can make
of break her early on in her recovery and healing process.  Her
chances are slim.  Her chances are slimmer here in Puducherry, Tamil
Nadu, India.  So we miraculously got her accepted to Stanford which is
one of the best hospitals in the world.  Also, as a charity case which
is very rare, since she has no insurance.  So what we need now is to
get her there.  I am reaching out to everyone I know to help us get an
ICU Plane (a.k.a. air ambulance) to fly her back to California.  If
anyone knows anyone with a plane we could rent or has anybody in the
Air Ambulance industry or a doctor who could volunteer their time to
come and get her and fly her to Stanford and reduce the cost... those
things would be amazing.  The reality of the situation is that we need
to raise $150,000 dollars, now for the quote we have.  There is a blog
that Hollis's best bud Eliza (from her bicycle dance troupe the SF
Derailleurs) started: friendsofhollis.blogspot.com and it has a donate
button on it.  I would like to urge everyone to give something to this
button even if it is 5 dollars and then pass it on to everyone they
know.  Hopefully we can all figure out a way to give $1,000 whether it
be by sheer generosity or organizing a fundraiser where ever this
reaches you.  Send it to people who know her and send it to anyone who
is a compassionate person and knows what its like to lose a bright
brilliant star of a person.  She is an amazing performer, heart,
bicycle and food activist and so much more, in San Francisco (and
everywhere) and we need to do everything we can while we have the
possibility, to bring her back.  It was crazy to go through my
contacts to select everyone to send this to and see the amount of
amazing people who are no longer alive on it and how badly I don't
want to add her to this group.  Please help however you can even if
its just keeping her in your thoughts and sending healing energies and
magic.  You can write me with any questions or support or call/text
anytime, day or night.
Thank you more than anyone can be thanked, for everything you have all
done so far, you have kept me going in my darkest hour. Please forward
this on.  Put it on myspace, facebook, your blog, craigslist, tribe,
tell everyone.
love and teary thanks,
Harrison
1-415-987-6576
--
Life is precious, Never waste it.


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