Post by jean on Nov 28, 2020 15:35:59 GMT -5
Online auction to benefit injured Decatur Co. man
BILL RETHLAKE
DAILY NEWS
GREENSBURG – Friends of local resident Earl Six are sponsoring an online auction Dec. 4 to 6 to help Six and his wife Nan defray medical bills incurred while recovering from a serious motorcycle accident.
“On September 6, we were just out riding with five other motorcyclists, three in front and two behind us. I actually don’t remember a lot of it, but I do remember that it was a very sharp S curve,” Nan said in recalling the accident.
Nan believes the couple was going no faster than the speed limit, which is 35.
“I remember squealing tires and brakes locking up, and the guard rail on our left side being so close I could touch it, but I remember nothing else,” said Nan.
Nan said the next thing she remembers was lying on the pavement looking up at the sky.
“And then I remember our friend Josh holding my hand, talking to me. I kept asking, ‘What’s goin’ on?’ and wanting to get up, but Josh said I
The Greensburg community has rallied around a local couple involved in a serious motorcycle accident. To help pay the couple’s medical bills, friends are hosting an online auction Dec. 4 to 6.
couldn’t get up [because] I had just hurt my head,” she continued.
She remembers little else but looking to her side and seeing her unconscious husband face down on the pavement, bleeding from his nose.
The couple was rushed to the hospital by emergency personnel and Nan didn’t hear more about her husband until learning that he was in worse shape then her, and in need of ICU care.
“It’s really all a blur. It’s hard to remember, but I know I was afraid,” she said.
Nan suffered relatively minor injuries, but her husband’s condition was much worse. And the road ahead looked dark.
For the first four weeks, Earl remained unsconscious and they feared he had suffered major brain damage. The accident had crushed bones in his skull below his left eye socket, and he was unable to breath for himself.
Mark Carmen, Earl’s best friend for nearly 40 years and one of the auction organizers said, “After about four weeks of him being unresponsive and unconscious, they were considering turning him off. They were giving up hope at that point.”
A new physician with some different ideas on Six’s condition joined the care team during the last few days of Earl’s intubation.
“The new doctor examined him and said, ‘Wait a minute, there’s a few things we haven’t tried,’” said Carmen. “And that brought him back.”
After several weeks in rehab during a major pandemic, his visitors were severely limited.
“Nan was in the hospital for four days, but she went to be with him every day in the hospital and in the rehab,” said Carmen. “After this, he’ll be going to a local nursing facility. They are very cautious about the prognosis, but his medical bills must be astronomical, and he was just starting the paperwork for his retirement from working 30 years at Duke energy. That’s paperwork he has to physically file, so I don’t know how this story will turn out, but the GCHS Class of 1984 has been instrumental in setting up the auction, and we’re all so grateful and amazed that he’s survived.”
The benefit auction will be conducted on the Facebook page “Earl Six Strong” from 8 a.m. Dec. 4 until 6 p.m. Dec. 6.
All proceeds will got to the Sixes to help defray their medical bills.
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BILL RETHLAKE
DAILY NEWS
GREENSBURG – Friends of local resident Earl Six are sponsoring an online auction Dec. 4 to 6 to help Six and his wife Nan defray medical bills incurred while recovering from a serious motorcycle accident.
“On September 6, we were just out riding with five other motorcyclists, three in front and two behind us. I actually don’t remember a lot of it, but I do remember that it was a very sharp S curve,” Nan said in recalling the accident.
Nan believes the couple was going no faster than the speed limit, which is 35.
“I remember squealing tires and brakes locking up, and the guard rail on our left side being so close I could touch it, but I remember nothing else,” said Nan.
Nan said the next thing she remembers was lying on the pavement looking up at the sky.
“And then I remember our friend Josh holding my hand, talking to me. I kept asking, ‘What’s goin’ on?’ and wanting to get up, but Josh said I
The Greensburg community has rallied around a local couple involved in a serious motorcycle accident. To help pay the couple’s medical bills, friends are hosting an online auction Dec. 4 to 6.
couldn’t get up [because] I had just hurt my head,” she continued.
She remembers little else but looking to her side and seeing her unconscious husband face down on the pavement, bleeding from his nose.
The couple was rushed to the hospital by emergency personnel and Nan didn’t hear more about her husband until learning that he was in worse shape then her, and in need of ICU care.
“It’s really all a blur. It’s hard to remember, but I know I was afraid,” she said.
Nan suffered relatively minor injuries, but her husband’s condition was much worse. And the road ahead looked dark.
For the first four weeks, Earl remained unsconscious and they feared he had suffered major brain damage. The accident had crushed bones in his skull below his left eye socket, and he was unable to breath for himself.
Mark Carmen, Earl’s best friend for nearly 40 years and one of the auction organizers said, “After about four weeks of him being unresponsive and unconscious, they were considering turning him off. They were giving up hope at that point.”
A new physician with some different ideas on Six’s condition joined the care team during the last few days of Earl’s intubation.
“The new doctor examined him and said, ‘Wait a minute, there’s a few things we haven’t tried,’” said Carmen. “And that brought him back.”
After several weeks in rehab during a major pandemic, his visitors were severely limited.
“Nan was in the hospital for four days, but she went to be with him every day in the hospital and in the rehab,” said Carmen. “After this, he’ll be going to a local nursing facility. They are very cautious about the prognosis, but his medical bills must be astronomical, and he was just starting the paperwork for his retirement from working 30 years at Duke energy. That’s paperwork he has to physically file, so I don’t know how this story will turn out, but the GCHS Class of 1984 has been instrumental in setting up the auction, and we’re all so grateful and amazed that he’s survived.”
The benefit auction will be conducted on the Facebook page “Earl Six Strong” from 8 a.m. Dec. 4 until 6 p.m. Dec. 6.
All proceeds will got to the Sixes to help defray their medical bills.
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