I just found out that a friend of mine was in a bad motorcycle accident last night. She’s been a big part of many amazing underground art events, communities and she’s always been there with energy and wickedly playful enthusiasm (and her camera) throughout many years of SRL shows, Burning Man events and more.
If you have any extra good thoughts, candles, meditations, prayers, good deeds or even a scratch behind a cat’s ear, think of my pal Amacker for a second when you do it. Her community — we — love her very much. She’s in the ICU right now and will be for a while, with more surgeries to come.
Her
condition is described as critical, but the lead trauma surgeon informed
us clearly that her injuries, while life threatening, are all
survivable. The surgeon stressed this word ‘survivable’. She had an
amazing team of surgeons working on her for several hours into this
morning. Her list of injuries include all ribs broken on one side,
nicked aorta, a nick to her liver, broken left shin, left kidney
removed, spleen removed, and a fracture around the base of her skull.
Despite all that she was lucid and (as described by the paramedics) “a
bit combative” going into surgery.
That’s our girl.
Updates after the jump.
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Sunday 9:12 pm: New news —
Okay, we just got back from the hospital. Amacker was in surgery this
morning from 6am til about 11am to re-attach her head to her neck.
“Amacker lose her head? Say it isn’t so!” They had determined early this
morning that her C1 vertebra was a full centimeter from her skull, so
they got her in, flushed up them bones and made with the metal. She has
pins and a metal plate now. She and airport security are now going to
have that much MORE fun.In case you were holding your breath, the surgey was a _complete_
success. They expect to rouse her to conciousness in a couple of hours
to ask her a few questions, to again assess her cognitive abilities.
My friend Kevin adds that she’ll be in the hospital for the next 6 weeks (no visitors yet, tho) and that he “(…) stopped by [redacted] and got these dets while dropping off a get
well card at the hospital. Over 70 people signed the card last night
at the Lost Wages event at Ace.”
