Brian ’s Story

Site created on February 25, 2018

Hello friends & families...on the evening of  February 21, 2018, Brian Tamburrelli was struck by a vehicle while walking home.  Brian was brought to Chandler Regional Hospital and admitted into the Trauma ICU with head trauma, facial lacerations, multiple rib fractures and other complications. Right now Brian is stable but still unconscious with the medical team working hard to keep him comfortable.  

Due to the nature of injuries, Brian's progress needs to be slow and steady...as one of his nurses said, "this is a marathon, not a sprint".  The amount of time that he will be in the ICU and post-accident rehabilitation is still unknown.  There will be extensive expenses that accompany his healing & recovery.

Although there are expenses covered by insurance, there will be gaps in which Jenna & Brian are going to need additional financial support.  On top of obvious medical expenses, and Brian being out of work, the Tamburrelli's will lose substantial income during this time. His wife Jenna is self-employed and the loss of time will greatly impact her ability to provide as well.  Right now Jenna's focus is to be by Brian's side in addition to caring for their 2 beautiful boys that greatly miss their daddy.

The goal right now is to surround this family with love and support and any small contribution will greatly help them.  Your donation will go towards alleviating the stress of medical debt and day to day expenses so that their focus can be to get Brian back home.

Brian and Jenna are incredible people and amazing parents.  Together, they possibly know the entire state of Arizona and then some, so let's rally together and make this happen!!!  Brian...you got this, the Mrs, the Deez and the Ducc need you home!!!!

We will also be putting together a sign up for meals and additional help with the kiddos.

#teamtambo

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Journal entry by rebecca lopez

As you all know on the evening of February 21, 2018, Brian was struck by a vehicle while walking home. Brian continues to be in stable condition and is still unconscious.

On March 3rd he was transferred to an acute care facility to further his rehabilitation and care.

As of today, Brian was very active this morning. There was a lot of tapping, snapping, and pulling of his hospital gown. His white blood cell count has gone down but still needs to go down more before they can get him his feeding tube. There is a noticeable reduction in the swelling in his right arm and the doctor believes it's about the positioning in bed. He is definitely responding to being stimulated, but the doctor is wanting to see more on command movements from Brian, but he is still very happy with the progress. 

The goal is to get Brian into an upright position in a chair for at least two hours a day via physical therapy. Yesterday he was able to tolerate the full two hours in the chair, this is great! 

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