A friend in need: Hollis Hawthorne in critical condition
From: Molly <missmollydiane@gmail.com>
Hello friends, family, acquaintances, co-workers, etc.,
I¹m writing because a dear friend of mine (and, in many cases, ours) is in
trouble and needs help. Hollis Hawthorne, the vibrant, beautiful, brilliant
friend who helped me found the Cheese Puffs (http://www.myspace.com/cheesepuffssf) and co-founded the Derailleurs
bicycle dance troupe (http://www.myspace.com/bayareaderailleurs), was in a serious motorcycle accident in India and is
now in a coma with severe head injuries and an unknown prognosis.
If you want to know the whole story and/or the newest updates, check out the
blog her best friend Eliza and her sweetheart Harrison are maintaining at
www.friendsofhollis.blogspot.com <http://www.friendsofhollis.blogspot.com> .
As it stands now, Hollis has been unconscious and on a breathing machine
since last Wednesday. She has no health insurance. The U.S. Consulate is
helping her get care in Pondicherry (near Chennai), and Stanford has offered
to care for her for free, but her friends and family are trying to raise
money to cover the cost of flying her back to the States (recent estimate is
$150,000) and of sending her mother and aunt to India.
Why am I telling all this? What can you do?
1. Send positive energy, prayers, good vibes, new age voodoo, WHATEVER you
believe in to our girl, whether you know her or not
2. Donate money, even $5, via the paypal link on the blog, to help cover her costs.
3. Help us throw a FUNdraiser, or throw one of your own. We need a venue,
performers, DJs, bands, items for a silent auction, or anything else you can
think of that might support a good party. (Food? Promo materials? Etc.) If you're willing to help but don't know how, let me know - we definitely need foot soldiers.
4. 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 go get her and fly with her to Stanford - PLEASE CONTACT ME.
Also, below is an email that Hollis' partner Harrison who is with her in India sent out:
Feel free to forward this on to everybody... Go team.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Harrison Wild <harrisonisalive@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Subject: Hollis Hawthorne and Harrison need you...
Hello friends and family,
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 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 or break her early on in her recovery and healing process. Her chances are slim. Her chances are slimmer here in Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, India.
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 whether it be by sheer generosity or organizing a fundraiser wherever 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. Hollis is an amazing performer, 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
H O L L I S !
Hello friends, family, acquaintances, co-workers, etc.,
I¹m writing because a dear friend of mine (and, in many cases, ours) is in
trouble and needs help. Hollis Hawthorne, the vibrant, beautiful, brilliant
friend who helped me found the Cheese Puffs (http://www.myspace.com/cheesepuffssf) and co-founded the Derailleurs
bicycle dance troupe (http://www.myspace.com/bayareaderailleurs), was in a serious motorcycle accident in India and is
now in a coma with severe head injuries and an unknown prognosis.
If you want to know the whole story and/or the newest updates, check out the
blog her best friend Eliza and her sweetheart Harrison are maintaining at
www.friendsofhollis.blogspot.com <http://www.friendsofhollis.blogspot.com> .
As it stands now, Hollis has been unconscious and on a breathing machine
since last Wednesday. She has no health insurance. The U.S. Consulate is
helping her get care in Pondicherry (near Chennai), and Stanford has offered
to care for her for free, but her friends and family are trying to raise
money to cover the cost of flying her back to the States (recent estimate is
$150,000) and of sending her mother and aunt to India.
Why am I telling all this? What can you do?
1. Send positive energy, prayers, good vibes, new age voodoo, WHATEVER you
believe in to our girl, whether you know her or not
2. Donate money, even $5, via the paypal link on the blog, to help cover her costs.
3. Help us throw a FUNdraiser, or throw one of your own. We need a venue,
performers, DJs, bands, items for a silent auction, or anything else you can
think of that might support a good party. (Food? Promo materials? Etc.) If you're willing to help but don't know how, let me know - we definitely need foot soldiers.
4. 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 go get her and fly with her to Stanford - PLEASE CONTACT ME.
Also, below is an email that Hollis' partner Harrison who is with her in India sent out:
Feel free to forward this on to everybody... Go team.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Harrison Wild <harrisonisalive@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Subject: Hollis Hawthorne and Harrison need you...
Hello friends and family,
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 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 or break her early on in her recovery and healing process. Her chances are slim. Her chances are slimmer here in Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, India.
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 whether it be by sheer generosity or organizing a fundraiser wherever 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. Hollis is an amazing performer, 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
H O L L I S !