Please help Ian! [Not spam, just a plea for help.]
From here:
It’s definitely been a trying few days. On the night of Saturday October 17th, while riding his bike home, a car hit Ian Mcdougall, guitarist of our band Riverboat Gamblers. He sustained some pretty heavy injuries including a broken hip, a broken wrist and hemmoraging under the skull along with many lacerations, torn ligaments, bruises and and scrapes.
He was rushed by ambulance to Brackenridge hospital in Austin and stayed in the ICU for 2 days before being moved into his own room where he is undergoing physical therapy while awaiting the results on X-rays and MRIs as well as a deluge of other various tests.
That being said, the prognosis is better than we had first thought. We are happy that he is going to be ok and that he is alive and with us. Unfortunately, not only is he in for a long recovery and is in a lot of pain, but he will be celebrating his birthday in bed with hospital food.
On another unfortunate note, there are a pile of bills currently gaining a Mt. Everest-like summit from all his hospital expenses. We set up a PayPal account for our band mate and friend to try and help him get on top of the debt and focus on his recovery. His PayPal account email is ian.gambler@gmail.com. Anything you can afford to give will be greatly appreciated by Ian and his family. Thank you all for your support and we wish Ian the speediest of recoveries.
If you click on the link, there's also a picture of him in his hospital bed. He's pretty beat-up, so it's nice to see that thumbs-up from him, even though he's in so much pain.
The Riverboat Gamblers are actually a really fun band; Rachael and I were lucky enough to see them not too long ago, when they were touring with Rise Against and Rancid, and came to our city. Ian is a very talented guitar player, and he really added a little something to that show.
I don't know if any of you like the band at all, or have even heard of them, but if you have and you want to help out, there's his PayPal information right there. Even if you can only give very little, it's still something, and I know that he and his family, and his bandmates, would really appreciate it. Please, and thank you.
It’s definitely been a trying few days. On the night of Saturday October 17th, while riding his bike home, a car hit Ian Mcdougall, guitarist of our band Riverboat Gamblers. He sustained some pretty heavy injuries including a broken hip, a broken wrist and hemmoraging under the skull along with many lacerations, torn ligaments, bruises and and scrapes.
He was rushed by ambulance to Brackenridge hospital in Austin and stayed in the ICU for 2 days before being moved into his own room where he is undergoing physical therapy while awaiting the results on X-rays and MRIs as well as a deluge of other various tests.
That being said, the prognosis is better than we had first thought. We are happy that he is going to be ok and that he is alive and with us. Unfortunately, not only is he in for a long recovery and is in a lot of pain, but he will be celebrating his birthday in bed with hospital food.
On another unfortunate note, there are a pile of bills currently gaining a Mt. Everest-like summit from all his hospital expenses. We set up a PayPal account for our band mate and friend to try and help him get on top of the debt and focus on his recovery. His PayPal account email is ian.gambler@gmail.com. Anything you can afford to give will be greatly appreciated by Ian and his family. Thank you all for your support and we wish Ian the speediest of recoveries.
If you click on the link, there's also a picture of him in his hospital bed. He's pretty beat-up, so it's nice to see that thumbs-up from him, even though he's in so much pain.
The Riverboat Gamblers are actually a really fun band; Rachael and I were lucky enough to see them not too long ago, when they were touring with Rise Against and Rancid, and came to our city. Ian is a very talented guitar player, and he really added a little something to that show.
I don't know if any of you like the band at all, or have even heard of them, but if you have and you want to help out, there's his PayPal information right there. Even if you can only give very little, it's still something, and I know that he and his family, and his bandmates, would really appreciate it. Please, and thank you.
Posted on October 22nd, 2009 at 11:42pm
The poor man! I'll see what I can find to help.
TheFountainhead, October 23rd, 2009 at 06:17:43am
If I get some spare cash I'll send it their way
I hope he recovers well (:
vince noir., October 23rd, 2009 at 06:17:23am
v Thank you.
Jinxeh, October 23rd, 2009 at 05:35:56am
If my paycheck ever gets here I'll send them something.
druscilla zanzibar., October 23rd, 2009 at 05:30:03am
Aw, I love the Riverboat Gamblers. They come from around where I live. =/
Beatrix Kiddo., October 22nd, 2009 at 11:48:41pm