A message from Aushua’s Nathan Gammill

In case you didn’t read about it, Aushua frontman Nathan Gammill was severly beaten two weeks ago in a street attack (details here). Yesterday, via the band’s Myspace blog, Gammill had this to say:

“Hey everyone, I thought I would take a second to update everybody on what’s going on. First off, I don’t think I can articulate how thankful I am for all this support I’ve received and continue to receive. It’s astounding, really. All the cards, gifts, donations, just the notes even, and just the idea that people are wishing me well and hoping I get better quickly is just too much. So, thank you so much, it means the world to me. As far as my health goes, I’m alive and pretty okay.

My skull is cracked up, and it hurts something pretty. I think there was a total of four fractures including one sustained to my ocular cavity and these are probably gonna take the longest to heal all the way. What happened to my ear is a little different. My jaw bone unhinged and broke my left ear canal and as for right now I still can’t hear out of it, leaving me to play the “Where’s that sound coming from?” game while I hear out of mainly one damaged ear. The doctors say that a little hearing will come back, but, both ear drums are perforated and I will need surgery to fix them and hear at 100%. I just have to wait until I find out if I have qualified for emergency medical insurance, hopefully, and then I’ll be able to move ahead with that. My eye is somewhat peculiar as well. There was a rupture in the Choroid part of my eye. The doctors seem to think I’m pretty lucky due to the fact that if my eyeball decided to rupture a few millimeters over it would have been in my Macula and I would have no vision in that eye at all, instead, when looking out my right eye now it just looks like everyone is melting or pretending to be in a Salvidor Dali painting, straight lines become wavy and it kinda feels like I’m in a fun house, and, I just found out today that this is permanent. One worry, and this sounds totally medieval and superstitious to me, but one worry the doctors have is that “blood vessels” can now “grow through the rupture” into my eyeball and mess with my Macula. This apparently could happen, but it makes no sense to me. That’s about it for all thee hoighty toighty medical stuff. Truth is I feel okay most of the day, I have plenty of company, tons of awesome food and I’m not too worried about any of this stuff. I have taken up painting water-colored-thank-you-postcards, they are going well. I know it will be a while before I’m back to “normal,” I’m doing everything I can to get there as fast as possible. In the mean time, my friends, acquaintances, community, and pretty much everybody, you never cease to suprise me or make me feel good. I doubt there is anyone else that feels as comforted as I do, and for this I’m endlessly grateful and I thank you all so much. I’ll let you know more as it comes.”

Nathan Gammill

September 23, 2008 | Filed Under Music News 

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