After suffering a stroke while on vacation, the community has joined to show their support for Wrangellite Dani Lewis and her family.
Lewis and her family recently traveled to Florida for a family vacation with her father, according to a GoFundMe page organized by Brittani Robbins. While there, she was cleaning her sister’s oven when there was a short, and she was electrocuted. This triggered a massive stroke, according to the page.
“She has made very slow progress, and if she wakes up she will have months of rehabilitation before she can return to Alaska,” the page reads. “Dani’s only insurance is Alaska Medicaid, so while the emergency room is covered, nothing following is likely to be covered.”
As of Tuesday morning, June 23, the GoFundMe page has raised $1,965. Those interested in making a donation can find the page under “Dani’s Medical Expenses” at http://www.gofundme.com.
J&W’s, Wrangell’s burger restaurant, also hosted a special fundraiser day for the Lewis family on Monday, June 22. Josh Young, with J&W’s, said that they raised just over $2,800.
Monetary donations are not the only way that Wrangell has tried to show support for the Lewis family. Wrangellite Aleisha Mollen has organized a meal train to keep the family fed upon their return to Wrangell. Mollen said, in a brief interview with the Sentinel, that Lewis was still in the hospital in Florida.
“Kyle and the girls are coming home on Wednesday, though, because he needs to get back to work,” she wrote in a June 21 Facebook post. “One of the ways we can be a help at the moment is to fix meals for them so that he has one less thing to worry about.”
The meal train is organized to run from June 25 to the end of July. As of June 23, meals have been organized through July 16. More information about this can be found at http://www.mealtrain.com/trains/klwd60.
The Sentinel attempted to reach out to Kyle Lewis, but he could not be reached for comment as of press time.
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