ST. PAUL, Minn. - Amanda Stombaugh knows when a child's life hangs in the balance, every moment is crucial. A crash in 2015 injured three of her family members.
Her son, Noah, sprained his ankle and had a concussion. Her husband, Luke, suffered a broken arm, seven broken ribs, a partially collapsed lung, and a concussion. Her daughter, then three, was critically injured.
“She had a severe traumatic brain injury with skull fractures, from ear to ear and bleeding on the brain. A fractured jaw, pelvis and ribs,” Stombaugh said. “She was in a coma the first 11 days she was at Gillette. From everything I heard of what happened, it doesn’t make sense that they are still with us. It was an absolute miracle.”
In an effort to give back, the family is doing 50 days of fundraising for Gillette. Their campaign, which they’ve named #ashlyns50daysforgillette, runs until June 5.
The money raised will help the hospital purchase a mobile CT Scan.
Turns out, Gillette has been selected by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation to receive an extraordinary challenge grant. If Gillette can raise $600,000 by August 1, 2018, the foundation will match it with another $600,000. This would allow them to purchase a mobile CT scanner.
In a trauma setting, a mobile CT scanner can be transported right to a patient’s bedside.