Lisa’s Story

Site created on December 24, 2018

Welcome to our CaringBridge website.  Lisa Beaudoin was in a major car accident on Wednesday December 19th.  She was driving home from a board meeting when a reportedly distracted driver reaching for his cell phone swerved into her lane and hit her car in a head on collision.  She was removed from the crash with the Jaws of Life and helicoptered to UMass Memorial on Lake Avenue, in Worcester, MA. They saved her life.   

 

Lisa and her family are extremely grateful to all the first responders and amazing medical staff at UMass.  She has a distal compound left femur fracture, left femoral neck fracture, right distal femur fracture, left tibial plateau fracture, left arm fracture, left metacarpal fractures, broken clavicle and scapula and multiple fractured ribs.  She has had 5 surgeries and is hopefully in her final surgery today, December 26th. 


 

Prayers and healing sentiments are filling her with love.  She is incredibly grateful to be alive. We are using this page to keep family and friends updated in one place. We appreciate your support and words of hope and encouragement.  She will need lots of additional support once she is released from the hospital and we will use this page to help meet her needs around food, transportation, PT, fundraising, etc.   Thank you for visiting.

Newest Update

Journal entry by Lisa Beaudoin

Good morning,
Today is just another beautiful day in paradise despite that my life currently depends 100% on the support of others to survive.  I am so happy to be home after a month and a day.  This is so fascinating an experience (other than the excruciating pain) in that I'm a parent of a person with the label of disability; I work in the field of disability justice; and NOW I am temporarily experiencing the label of disability-soul growing and professional development wrapped up tightly.  There may be a book.  But there is definitely a law to be passed next legislative session to make more severe the consequences for distracted driving.
I am physically incapacitated for the next TEN weeks and currently require 24/7 care.  I have three broken limbs-NONE of which can have any weight bearing for 10 weeks.  My legs currently are extended out which requires a wheel chair for transportation.  At home, I am able to independently transfer to wheelchair and commode, however, my doctor strictly commands that there must be "eyes one" and a body leaning against the wheelchair and commode.  I am a "fall risk," a fall could damage my carefully repaired legs which sustained substantial, complicated fractures.  
I am so happy to be alive!  And, if you are able to spend some time with me, please sign into Caring Bridge, go to the "Planner" page and sign up.  If you can cook a gluten-free meal, please go to the "Planner" page as well.  
I love you all and am soooo grateful for your prayers and well wishes.  Your Positive Love energy is buoying me!  This is going yo be a long ten weeks then relearning how to walk then an enormous CELEBRATION!  A million thanks!
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