First let me say that this is the last thing that I would ever want to do. Those who know me know that I give 110% and never ask for help. I'm just not built that way. But I have to humble myself and ask this time. I need help.

This past Saturday I was at my Church volunteering and installing microphone cable in the drop ceiling. My loving wife was helping and holding the ladder for me. I needed a bit more light so she walked 4 feet away and opened the blinds on a window. 

I was reaching for a ceiling tile and the ladder flew out from under me. I nosedived into the carpet/concrete, I woke up with me head in her lap and her crying telling me she was sorry and didn't know what to do.

She called several friends who rushed over and took one look and said I needed to go to the Hospital. 911 was called and after a traumatizing 45 minute ride with them having to stop and roll me on my side 8 times to vomit we arrived at ER.

I suffered a  severe concussion and I crushed and dislocated both wrists. Broken blood vessels in my right eye and a laceration needing 4 stitches above my right eye. No swelling or bleeding in the head thankfully.

They released me without putting my wrists back in place because they were to damaged. But Tuesday they performed a 4 hour surgery in which they put my wrists in place, took out all bone and cartilage that was broke off, and ground everything smooth.  They put a 4" plate in each wrists and 8 pins to hold them.

The estimate is no doing anything for 3-6 months. I take dents out of cars for a living and it is all wrists. So I may never work again. Well I'll face that when the time comes.

Everyone who knows me knows I won't take this laying down. I will fight this with my last breath. I won't go quietly into the light

But I do need help. $5000 deductibles and no income for 3-6 months. I just can't handle that by myself.

So please consider helping if you can.  Any little bit will help.

And your prayers and love and well wishes are always welcome.

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Un fortunately I recently sold everything to pay off debts and get my house ready to sell. I have no way to raise cash other than credit cards. I am of course going to do that and then try to pay them off later. But with ow bad my wrists are the doctor says there is a good chance I won't be able to do the Paintless Dent Repair again.

I'm a fighter, I'll be able to do something, but it may be a while.

When I hit I thought I was about to die. I have never been hit that hard in my life. The doctor estimates a 35 mph impact from how bad the ulna's were shattered.

You're telling me. I thank God I'm alive an able to drive my family insane for a few months

Thanks so much Chip! I hope so. I already miss Pinball. LOL

They have been in touch and are very supportive. but it is a volunteer organization with no-one being paid. So I am trying to handle it with my insurance and friends support the best I can. I promise though if somehow they can cover it I will stop the Go Fund Me and reimburse everyone who donates. I have never and will never take a penny fro anyone dishonestly.

And thanks to all that have donated. May god bless you all.

I don't know why my wrists weren't put back in place. I was shown my Xrays when I left the ER. The 2 arm bones were facing up, the wrists were facing down. I was told that in surgery they were going to clean up the cartilage and bone fragments and place everything back where it was supposed to be. Then the plates on each ulnar with 4 pegs in each. I had no fractures. The ends of both ulnars and one radius were described as "crushed".

And my bad I thought the doctor said detached retina but after asking my wife they said the reason I couldn't see was burst blood vessels in the eye, the determined the retina was fine.

I know hundreds of members on here and on KLOV. I 've volunteered at the SFGE Expo for years. Anyone who knows me will vouch that I've never taken a penny from anyone for anything. In fact I did most of my restores for others for free. I would never lie nor embellish the truth. I was raised better. If I did not describe something properly I am sorry but I can only repeat what I heard from doctors.

Thanks to everyone that has donated and helped.

The picture was when I left to go to the Surgery. My mother said she wanted a last pic in case I didn't wake up.

I just got up and had my wife take a pic of me now. I get my wounds checked friday and will take pics of my arms and show the scars.

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Yes you are right. I am happy to answer any questions. And if you're not comfortable please don't donate.

If any of you listen to the Broken Token Podcast , Whitney and Brent said they are going to talk about me on this months upcoming podcast. I flew to Kentucky and helped Whitney with his SkySkipper cabinet a couple of years ago and we became good friends.

Thanks I will look into these options. I appreciate the help.

Once again I want to thank everyone that has donated. I appreciate the prayers and advice. I am not trying to take advantage of anyone and as promised if this gets paid for in the future I will return everyones donations. I would never try to profit from this.

Thanks guys!

Thank you so much. Your words mean a lot to me. It was incredibly hard for me to ask. I take care of my wife, my mother, my handicap sister and a son with problems. They had to convince me to humble myself and ask for help.

And after seeing the outpouring of support I am glad I did. When times get tough it helps to know that other people think you are a good person and a good friend and are willing to give you all the support you could ask for.

Thanks again for the encouraging words.

It wasn't electrical. It was merely microphone cable in the drop ceiling. A simple job that I messed up. I have been trained in ladder safety. I didn't maintain 3 points of contact and my helper left the ladder. I made a poor decision and I have paid for it. Hopefully I can learn a lesson and be safer in the future.

Yes I am looking into it. If they can help, they will I am sure.

I never changed it. It was $15k from the start.

No it was not.

You were awesome. Thanks for all your insight. I appreciate it. I had to go to the Doctor today, work up a sermon and I'm on serious meds. I've missed some posts and messed some stuff up. I'm truly sorry and do not wish to deceive anyone. Thanks for your help. Truly I mean it.

The house is not mine alone. When my dad died of cancer I went in with my mother in buying the house. We got it for $20 a square foot on foreclosure. We then sold our houses which had mortgages also to move in together. I moved in my Mom, my grandmother, my handicap sister and my wife and 2 kids. It took 5 years to sell one of the other houses and I lost $120,000 in bank payments because I am a man of my word and would not just let it go back to the bank.

In the last 2 years my grandmother died of a stroke and my 2 kids moved out. So we decided to fix the house up and sell it and downsize as we cannot afford the home. I sold everything I had in the way of games and toys and tools and hobby stuff to pay off debts and fix the house up.

Most of the contents came from consolidating three homes and three debts.

"Sell off the contents" I looked into it and was told that you get pennies on the dollar for furniture. The pinball and air hockey table might get a few hundred. Other than that there's not much to sell.

It is a nice home but it is in a repressed area and I was told it might not sell at all. I got a good deal and did a ton of work and was hoping that after years of debt I might be able to sell it and maybe recoup some loss. But I have not had one interested person yet. The realtor said we will just keep dropping the price and maybe somebody will bite in the next year or two.

I am not rich, I have no extra money, I live month to month in a home I paid $260,000 for to fit in 3 families. I do great remodeling work, did it all myself. But it's just a home. It won't pay the bills.

I did the GoFundMe because I have a lot of friends, a lot of people that I have done a lot for. If I do not get help then in 3-6 months I will be around $40k in debt and may not even have a job. I knew that my true friends would be there for me. And as can be seen they have. There are good, loving, kind beautiful people still on this earth and they have been a light in this dark time for me. And I thank them with all my heart!

As mentioned, if you have an issue or problem do not donate, I am not asking anything from you, I am asking my true friends for help, and they lovingly are responding.

I truly understand. I am sitting here with tears running down my face telling my family I should have never asked for help. I wish now I wouldn't have. I have never done a single person wrong or hurt a soul. I'm sorry I have caused problems here on Pinside. I just was hoping for a little help. I hate sitting still and not working and not helping people.

I'm sorry. Who did this to you?

We were in a rush trying to get the house ready for pictures and the bird watching camera was in the way. I told my wife to move it and that happened. Embarrassing to say the least.

Just got back from having the surgery wounds checked. Doc said they look great. He wants me to start finger and wrist stretching and slight rotating. Pics for those who want to see such things. Ughhh.

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Thank you so much!

I can't thank you enough. God bless you.

I understand peoples skepticism and fears. That's why I really was just asking for help from those I have helped. But it is people like yourself and others on Pinside and elsewhere that have restored much of my faith that there is still a lot of goodness in the world despite all the bad things happening.

It's alright. He was going with the information he had and was trying to protect this community. No hard feelings here.

Thanks!

I am supposed to be mentioned on 2 pinball podcasts on the 1st. Hopefully that will reach some more kind people.

Thanks again to all who have helped.

Yes indeed. I am so thankful to everyone here that gave. The love and support shown was tremendous. What I received will cover the medical bills. With family help I should be able to make it the next 3 months without going into severe debt. I will still go into some debt but with Gods help I will pay it off in the next year or so.

This has been a real faith restorer for me. You guys are awesome!

It reached 50%. Thanks everyone!

Thanks also too-many-pins , Ive been 100% transparent and tried to answer all questions. And yes I still do need some help, but I am not complaining because this is way more than I expected. With this help and God and Family I will make it!

Thank you all from the bottom to the top of my heart!

The Fundraiser just hit $9000.

Thanks everyone!

I've been slowly weaning myself off the painkillers. I went 24 hours without one but then caved so I could sleep.

Thought I could give myself a shower but after 4 hours of pain I decided I was moving a bit fast.

Thus afternoon is my eye exam to make sure my eye is healing. Still have broken blood vessels but the blurriness is gone most of the time.

Thanks again you guys

The stitches and staples were removed today. One stitch was infected and tied to tight so it had to be dug out. Not fun!

The xrays were good. Everything was fine. You can see on the left wrist that the end of the radius is still broken off. I was told they do not fix that.
Things are going good. 4 more weeks until next appointment and then I can start trying to strengthen things to get back to work.
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Hey guys. Just a little update.

I'm doing better. Still no range of motion in my wrists and they hurt like Heck, but I am doing better every day. Once again thanks so much for all the prayers, well wishes and donations!

I want to give back, even if in just a small way. I have some pinball items I would like to give to any who helped. My wife has some money from selling some clothes and said she could afford to ship a few items. So the following items are free to anyone who donated. One item each please

1: Whirlwind Translite......Used but in fairly good condition.

2: Pinwrench - Perfect for pinball leg and backbox bolts.

3: Logic Probe

4: Button Nut Remover/ CRT adjustmen tools / IC chip remover

5: Spoken For/Gone ......... Circuit Breakers - From 1/2A - 20A - Perfect for when you have a fuse blowing and don't want to keep blowing $2 fuses.

6: Hulk - Gottlieb Backglass - It is flaking but makes a great wall hanger. Can't ship this one but if someone close donated they can come get it anytime.

7: Snes Classic. Hacked for adding games
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The PinWrench is Spoken For!

Whirlwind Translite is on it's way to a new owner!

The Circuit Breakers are spoken for and shipped!

The Logic Probe is Spoken for and on it's way to it's new home!

The Snes Classic is headed to it's new home!

I found them sitting in a box. I am so grateful for what everyone has done and they aren't worth much. I just wanted to give a little back. When you're sitting around feeling bad , doing something for others makes you feel better.

Thank you so much! May God bless you.

Thank you so much. God bless.

The Circuit Breakers are on their way to a new owner!

The PinWrench is on it's way to a new owner!

The Whirlwind Translite is in the mail to it's new owner!

The Logic Probe has a new owner!

Thanks everyone for your donations and prayers. I'm doing much better, well until I saw the bills start coming in

But with your help and the help of God and Family I'll make it

The Snes Classic is headed to it's new home!

The GoFundMe just reached 75% and I am so thankful to everyone here, all my Facebook friends, my IRL friends and my family. What a blessing everyone has been! I still have people bringing over food and driving me places I need to go. It's been faith strengthening and awesome!

Even without hitting 100% I am now confident I can make it without going backwards to far. And with Gods help I should be back to work in less than a month and by 2 months hopefully back to almost normal. And if not , well I'll make it somehow. If this has taught me anything its taught me to see the positive in everything.

Thanks again for all the help!

Once again, thanks so much for the kind words and support. It seems like everytime you post I get a bit more

Thanks for your donation. I added it on the GoFundMe as an anonymous donation.

Thanks so much Dennis!

My first AlphaNumeric was a Dr. Dude. I loved it! Your pins are some of the best I've ever played. I also love listening to you on Charlie's Podcast. You guys crack me up.

I remember hearing about your accident. Glad you recovered from it. I'm sure I will look back and tell everyone one day about my "stupid" accident. LOL

Went to the doctor today. I was in a bit of pain. Turns out I displaced the fracture in my right radius. I had a major pipe burst and tried to dig down to it with a pick axe and a shovel. I didn't do much before my neighbor saw me and took over. But apparently I hurt myself.

I'm in braces with doctor's orders to do nothing for 2 weeks. Stinks but it is my fault. I hate asking for help but I should have sooner. God bless the kindness of my neighbor.

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