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Original letter from Lane

News of son Kabir’s wreck of a leased Ford Excursion on November 19, 2002 near Wickenburg Arizona, will be news to some of you.  He is grateful to be alive, although substantially paralyzed from a severe subluxationat of the C5-C6 vertebrae.  Two people lost their lives when a Firestone tire blew and the vehicle left the highway.  He spent two weeks in ICU at St. Joe’s Hospital in Phoenix, 3 months in a short-term rehab hospital, Rancho Los Amigos in Los Angeles. He was released from Rancho on March 7, moved to Carlsbad, CA,  independent apartment living with his brother Ira.  Their telephone is 760-434-6407. He started his recovery therapy at Project Walk on March 10. 

I have become painfully aware of the 24-hour care requirement for his daily needs and body function.  Like you, I wonder how we will ever be able to afford that level of care without insurance.  His gifts of care by Friends have already been generous beyond imagination, both at his bedside in ICU, at Rancho and now in Carlsbad.

Kabir will receive nominal disability payments from Social Security and likely will be eligible for some state disability assistance from California. MediCal is picking up the rehabilitation care at Rancho since Kabir does not have health insurance.  His stay at St. Joe’s Trauma/ICU in Phoenix is a bill which will have to wait in anticipation of an award resulting from a successful suit arising from the tire blow-out on the leased Ford Excursion in Arizona.

We all acknowledged that there is a large gap between two years of "recovery" therapy at Project Walk and the possibility of a settlement from the suit, perhaps years.  We will keep him in a therapeutic program to regain muscle control and strength lost with the spinal cord injury.   My early concern is for the loss of muscle mass and muscle memory depleted during the hospital stay.

Planned gifts may be made to the Kabir Moumanie Kadre Irrevocable Trust for bequests and gifts designated in your Will.

Contact Lane Coulston ( ) to forward gifts to his account used to pay Kabir’s therapy bills and nursing expenses.  Call Kabir's father, Lane,  at 800-775-3356.