Update on my brother
Oct. 15th, 2008 08:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kukla_redWell, I just got a call back from Bob, the guy who called me a couple of years ago to tell me about Alex being in a car accident back then. The news is not good. Evidently earlier this year someone broke into his apartment, stole money and drugs and beat him up and cracked his skull open. Of course, it was someone he knew.
He was recovering from that when his pickup truck rolled over him - how, I do not know - and broke his back in 2 places, his neck and 15 ribs. Probably some other stuff too. The end result is that he will never walk again, his brain is pretty messed up, he has no friends other than this guy Bob who started out as his caretaker when he needed assistance getting to doctor appointments about 4 years ago. Bob makes a 2 and a half hour drive and spends the night so he can see Alex, who is in an adult care facility in Stockton, CA.
Am I sorry this happened to him? Well, it's a lousy thing to happen to anyone. Am I going to call him? No. I have nothing to say to him and there would be no point.
I don't know how to feel. Except sad.
He was recovering from that when his pickup truck rolled over him - how, I do not know - and broke his back in 2 places, his neck and 15 ribs. Probably some other stuff too. The end result is that he will never walk again, his brain is pretty messed up, he has no friends other than this guy Bob who started out as his caretaker when he needed assistance getting to doctor appointments about 4 years ago. Bob makes a 2 and a half hour drive and spends the night so he can see Alex, who is in an adult care facility in Stockton, CA.
Am I sorry this happened to him? Well, it's a lousy thing to happen to anyone. Am I going to call him? No. I have nothing to say to him and there would be no point.
I don't know how to feel. Except sad.
