Babydude watch

Pretty exciting day, everyone agrees that he's looking better by the day!

Sammy is still on sedatives, pretty heavily at that. Over the next couple of days we should see him being taken off of sedatives though, the nurse told me that's usually when the body starts responding to things like breathing tubes and IV's so we're very excited for the next couple of days!

Sammy's amazing mother had this update to facebook earlier today;

Update on Day 5: Samuel had an uneventful night. He is still heavily sedated. Today is the last day to expect any possible brain swelling from his accident (which is constantly monitored & reduced by meds). The ICP probe will probably come out today. Sam will remain sedated for the time being. The Medical staff & Neurology Doctors are making their rounds now - I will post if there is any additional info. I hope you're all doing well. <3 

Until further notice we would like to keep visiting to 9am-9pm, 2 people at a time and no music. Check with the nurse on duty for up to date visiting protocol.

The Samuel Yager fund.

Shane Artsy is currently finishing the last touches on our non profit organization. With any luck we'll have it running in the next couple of days and can start accepting donations! In the meantime if you need to make a donation and can not wait please contact me at Saunders.M.Sean@Gmail.com.

Benefits.
    
SARATOGA SPRINGS 
To help set up or play in Saratoga Springs please contact; 

Shane Fraiser at acquiredtastebooking@Gmail.com
  
BROOKLYN
This Saturday was a planned show featuring birthdays. Andi Wilson has graciously offered to donate all profit. Check the show out here!

Also the lovely people from Silent Barn are arranging another benefit for September. If you would like to play or help in any way please get a hold of;

Nina Mashurova at nmashurova@Gmail.com 
or Lauren Piper at superpip@Gmail.com

BOSTON
The amazing people behind FMLY have already started a benefit, and can be reached here!

There is still talk of other exciting fundraisers, benefits and shows including an etsy page to sell art for profit!

***UPDATE*** ALBANY ***UPDATE***
To help setup or play in Albany please contact;

Rana Fayez at ranafayez@gmail.com

Compilations.

Our last note tonight is that we are officially looking to put together one compilation to sell for Sammy as well. We are asking for Birthdays covers but also accepting original tracks to/for Sammy specifically and remixes. There will be tracks added to the blog to use for remixes as soon as I receive the rest of them!

In the mean time please send all track to Shane Artsy ay ShaneArtsy@Gmail.com

Again a million thanks to everyone. So much love!

 

☼♡☼ SAMMYFEST ☼♡☼

dreamhaus + fmly are hosting a very special night in boston to honor our babydude! we'll be accepting donations to put towards his medical expenses, as well as cards & gifts that we'll deliver to him upon our next visit. 

to make our evening extra special, truman peyote + philip seymour hoffman (the now retired musical projects of caleb johannes + noah klein) will be coming back for one night only! mutual benefit, yohuna and i will also play our sets :)

email me for our address ~~~ emily at the fmly dot com

rsvp here

<3

Organizing and hopeful thoughts.

Visiting with Sammy and Co. today was inspiring. I may have incorrectly told people before now that Sammy was not sedated. He is. That's good news for a few reasons. 

First off it allows his body to heal without being under too much strain.

Second, we wouldn't have been able to see much response from him in the past couple of days because of this, if nothing else...

The nurse also told me they'll be taking him off of sedatives over the next couple of days, with any luck we'll be seeing some response from him shortly after.

This also counts as news in terms of visiting. It's important to keep stimulus low in the meantime, so please no music, loud noise and no more than 2 people visiting at a time!

There's been much talk of fundraiser a and shows today as well as progress for a donation fund and non profit.

We're looking forward to all of the exciting updates coming over the next few days!

In the mean time, so much love!

Babydude Watch

I'm so overwhelmed with positive energy, thoughts and prayers that it's been hard to feel anything short of awe these past few days.

Thank you to everyone that's called, messaged, texted or posted anything at all. We all appreciate it so much!

I have personally been a bit overwhelmed with how much work there is to do, and how many people want to do it, so while our favorite little babydude is sleeping we're going to keep everyone informed here.

STATUS:

First thing is Sammy's condition. For those of you that are wondering what's happening Samuel "Babydude" Yager fell off of his bike on his way home, late Thursday night. He wasn't wearing his helmet and took a nasty spill. He was found around 3am in Saratoga Springs, close to his home and rushed to the hospital. He was responsive and seemed to be self aware still. Sometime after things got worse, he was rushed to Albany Medical Center. He had to have a piece of his skull removed and surgery for clotting. Currently Samuel is in a coma with signs of brain damage. 

Everyday seems to be looking a little better though, and Sammy is no adversary to the easy way out, he will be putting up the fight that we have all seen from him!

We will keep this blog posted with any news that we get as often and as quickly as possible. 

VISITING:

Everybody is very eager to visit Sammy and share their love. Due to all of the interest we're trying to keeping visiting limited. Please contact Albany Medical Center before visiting. Hours  are 9am through 9pm currently. Only two people can visit Sammy at a time, due to space and stimulation. We're asking that each visit be 20 minutes in time or less, this way everybody can visit and most importantly the amazing staff can do their work. You are allowed to play light or quiet music and hold his hands. There will be times where he won't be able to be seen. If you come please know that we'll do our best to let you see him but you may have to wait for hours at a time or longer, this is why we ask for people to call ahead. Preference will be given to those traveling as often as possible. 

We ask to keep gifts to cards and kisses. Sammy has a journal in his room, with many cards in it, that we would love for everyone to write a little bit in, if you need to bring anything else again check with the hospital or one of us first please.

There are plenty of places to visit in the area if you would like to, wonderful establishments to support and provide both food and entertainment and if anyone needs any recommendations, don't hesitate to ask! 

We're also offering accommodations all through out the area. Here, in Saratoga Springs, at Sammy's apartment we have been hosting visitors. Feel free to contact me at 518-879-4537 if you need somewhere to stay.

DONATIONS:

Currently we're in the planning phases of putting together a Non-Profit, this will allow us to accept donations tax free to help out with medical bills and any other help that his family/he will need. I'll have this posted as soon as I can!

FUNDRAISERS:

We have so many talented people to support Sammy, and so much talent from Sammy himself. There are currently shows being put together for Boston and Saratoga in support. Brooklyn would be another easy destination, if there isn't one already. As details come out about these shows I'll post them here as well as their respective origins.

We're also looking to put together some music to purchase, which all proceeds will go straight to his bills. Anyone looking to contribute an original song, a cover of Birthdays or that has any other contribution can reach me at Saunders.M.Sean@Gmail.com, or on Facebook. We'll be reaching out to many of you over the next couple of days.

On top of everything there's talk of fundraisers, Etsy sites and many other sales/fundraisers. If you have anything you would like to sell for Sammy, or if you plan on raising any money for him please contact us first!

THANKS

Again we all can't begin to thank you enough. So much love!