{"id":68182,"date":"2024-07-18T06:38:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T10:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=68182"},"modified":"2024-08-13T07:05:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T11:05:51","slug":"wawa-youth-flown-to-london-gofundme-launched-for-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/18\/wawa-youth-flown-to-london-gofundme-launched-for-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Wawa Youth Flown to London &#8211; GoFundMe launched for support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2024-07-18-at-1.45.39-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-68183\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2024-07-18-at-1.45.39-PM-300x163.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2024-07-18-at-1.45.39-PM-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2024-07-18-at-1.45.39-PM-600x325.png 600w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2024-07-18-at-1.45.39-PM-768x416.png 768w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screen-Shot-2024-07-18-at-1.45.39-PM.png 1296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A Wawa resident is currently in London hospital after a life-threatening accident yesterday, July 17th. Chance Smedts was flown to London with his stepmom, Kari. Chance has a severely broken leg, a broken pelvis and broken jaw (in two places)\u2026 He has already had one surgery and will be having more.<\/p>\n<div class=\"campaign-description_campaignDescription__6P_RU\">\n<div class=\"campaign-description_content__C1C_5 hrt-mt-3 campaign-description_isOpen__4cQeG\">\n<div>Family friend, Debbie Banks is hoping to raise some funds as it is going to be extremely expensive to stay there, rooms, food, parking costs, etc.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"\">His mom, explains what happened yesterday, &#8220;On July 17th at approximately 11:30 am, Chance was riding his dirt bike and was in an accident with another vehicle. He was immediately brought to the LDHC and lost a lot of blood. He was sedated and intubated to protect his broken jaw and secure an airway. Chance\u2019s jaw is broken in 2 places, and his leg is broken in several locations and bleeding. We were flown to London&#8217;s Victoria hospital that afternoon. In the wee hours of July 18 at 12 a.m. Chance was whisked away for his first surgery. He had a rod put into his thigh and had two facsiotomis to relieve pressure in his lower leg. This happens when the tourniquets have been left on for a long time. He remains sedated and intubated until his jaw surgery which will happen in the next 36 hours. Thank you all for your love and support.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to support Chance click the link (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/chance-smedts-medical-fundraiser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/chance-smedts-medical-fundraiser<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Wawa resident is currently in London hospital after a life-threatening accident yesterday, July 17th. Chance Smedts was flown to London with his stepmom, Kari. Chance has a severely broken leg, a broken pelvis and broken jaw (in two places)\u2026 He has already had one surgery and will be having more. Family friend, Debbie Banks &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 14:05:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68186,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68182\/revisions\/68186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}