Donald “Jay” Scantling, is a 34 year old man who is also a husband and father of 3 beautiful daughters, was involved in a horrific 1 vehicle accident on September 27, 2023. The entire bottom front axel of his car completely fell off his car while driving, causing his car to flip 4 to 5 times and ejecting Jay from his vehicle through the driver side window. The accident resulted in a Segmented Spinal Cord and a traumatic brain injury. As of today, he is still in the hospital, with tracheotomy
and paraplegic. The doctor’s just recently took him off of the ventilator. With these kinds of injuries, it will definitely be a very long journey with numerous out-of-pocket costs. My husband has had 2 different back surgeries and has been unable to work for most of his life. Diagnosed with Degenerative Disc Disease that is hereditary, there were many days that he couldn’t function at all. Unfortunately, He has been denied disability for all of these years. While we were at UAMS in Little Rock, the nurse told me that he would automatically qualify for disability…..he was denied. The inability to work for most of his life, caused him to not qualify.

December 31, 2023

AS 2023 COMES TO AN END, PLEASE REMEMBER DONALD SCANTLING (ALSO GOES BY JAY) AND HELP HOPE LIVE FOR YOUR END-OF-YEAR CHARITABLE GIVING THAT IS ALSO TAX DEDUCTIBLE!!!

Here is a way to get involved:

*Show your support for Help Hope Live by making an end-of-year tax deductible gift at www.helphopelive.org and search for Donald Scantling in the Find A Campaign box.

No gift is too big or too small and every dollar is very much needed for Jay to begin a new way of life with his wife and 3 little daughters and to regain some independence and his change of daily life.

December 29, 2023

AS 2023 COMES TO AN END, PLEASE REMEMBER DONALD SCANTLING (ALSO GOES BY JAY) AND HELP HOPE LIVE FOR YOUR END-OF-YEAR CHARITABLE GIVING THAT IS ALSO TAX DEDUCTIBLE!!!

Here is a way to get involved:

*Show your support for Help Hope Live by making an end-of-year tax deductible gift at www.helphopelive.org and search for Donald Scantling in the Find A Campaign box.

No gift is too big or too small and every dollar is very much needed for Jay to begin a new way of life with his wife and 3 little daughters and to regain some independence and his change of daily life.

December 29, 2023

December 29, 2023

12/22/2023 Praise God, the doctors went down from an 8 to a 6 on Jay's tracheotomy; next will be a 4. This means an actual downsizing of the actual tracheotomy. The purpose of downsizing is to allow Jay to be able to do more of the breathing around the tube, rather than through the tube. When the initial problem that initiated placement of the trach is resolved, downsizing may begin. For example, when the tube was placed because of prolonged mechanical ventilation, downsizing can begin as soon as the patient has been weaned from the ventilator. Please pray that after they bring his tracheotomy down to a 4 that not long afterwards, he can have the tracheotomy completely out.

12/19/2023 Praise God, we are finally approved to move Jay back to Select Specialty Hospital and will be moving him back today. Jay, our daughters and myself feel so much better. Once he is strong enough he will be moved back to the rehabilitation facility for rehab for a few weeks and then he will go home. Please continue to pray for a full recovery and healing of my loving husband. Our oldest daughter, mentioned to Jay today, that she can't wait for him to come home so that she can cut her birthday cake and we all, as a family, can enjoy eating her birthday cake, since we couldn't do this on her 13th birthday, which was on September 27, 2023, the same day that Jay was involved in the car accident.

12/12/2023 Talk about a very scary night. After we got settled in the new rehabilitation facility and things were a bit calmer. Jay was having a hard time breathing all night and they sent him to the ER at Mercy Hospital. In mine as well as Jay's opinion, they medications that Jay is currently taking was not readily available and so it took a good while for Jay to get his medications. The medical staff did not want to suction him a lot because they did not want to irritate his throat but I really do feel that this is what he was really needing. I believe he was moved too soon to the rehabilitation facility and still needed to be at Select Specialty Hospital a bit longer before he gets moved to rehab. I have emailed the case manager at Select Specialty Hospital to inform her of my thoughts in hopes that they move Jay back to their hospital. The case manager's email response is that we need to wait and get approval before he can be moved back. Jay and our girls and myself have been praying that he gets moved fairly quick.

12/10/2023 Jay was informed today that he will be moved to a rehabilitation facility tomorrow, where he will have more physical therapy. He will be at this facility for anywhere from 2 to 4 weeks and then he will be going home. As much as we want nothing more to have him home, I am very concerned at what I am going to do. Our home is not handicap accessible. I am not able to find anyone that can donate their time and supplies to modify our home like our bathroom, bathroom sink, bathtub/shower, ramp, etc... I don't know how I will get him home since we do not have funds to buy a handicap accessible vehicle either. It is a bit overwhelming for us but I know God will get us through it all.