It seems that today is all about hardcore bands, after hearing that Every Time I Die will be carrying on without Ryan Leger, there is more troubling news. Evergreen Terrace‘s Brad Moxey was busy out working four days ago and suffered a fall from 25 feet. Working as a contractor the drummer fell badly, was knocked unconscious for a full twenty minutes and shattered his elbow. The full detailed account can be seen below by his wife.
Scheduled to go on tour in Australia with the band Evergreen Terrace have had to cancel their upcoming performance at Soundwave. As Moxey was already in financial trouble, now added with the financial woes of uninsured medical bills and whatever physiotherapy he might need afterwards, the man could do with a hand. Not to mention a baby on the way, Moxey‘s family have set up a GoFundMe campaign for raising $20,000. So far in the two days that it has been active they have received $4,245 (at the time of writing)
“February 6, 2015 was like any other day. Brad got up, kissed me goodbye and went off to work. Brad is a hard worker as a contractor doing home repair and remodeling. He was also getting ready for an Australian tour with his band, Evergreen Terrace, and had gigs lined up with his Nirvana tribute band. I got a phone call that Brad fell 25 ft off a ladder onto a brick sidewalk while working on a house. He was knocked unconcious for over 20 minutes and unaware of where he was once his eyes opened. After a cat scan and x rays the Dr’s moved him to a room to get him ready for surgery. His elbow (ulna) was exposed out of his skin. It could have been much much worse falling onto his back/head from such height. The Dr’s and nurses all say he is very lucky. His elbow was shattered into so many pieces they weren’t sure the extent of his injury. The surgeon estimated a 2.5 hour surgery and plates would be placed in Brads arm, also possibly an additional surgery for an implant. 4 long hours later I got a call that surgery was completed, it took much longer because there were tiny microscopic pieces of bone that had to be taken out of brads arm, reconstructed, then placed back in. Once in surgery they revealed he not only broke his ulna but his radius bone as well. He was missing a marble size piece of bone also. Brad is doing good, he was released from the hospital after a 4 day stay and in pain still which is expected. He has headaches from his fall and some trouble remembering. He will start months of physical therapy to be able to eventually return to work and return to his passion of 20 years, playing drums.“
We wish Moxey the quickest and least painful recovery so that he can get back to doing what he loves, drumming.
If you wanted to donate to the Moxey campaign you can do so here.
