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Help Crash Victim, Staples Employee In His Recovery
The GoFundme.com site hoped to raise $20,000 for his recovery but the donations stalled months ago.
In October 2012, Mike Mashkevich, who lives in Marlborough and is a Senior Programmer Analyst at the Staples Corporate Office in Framingham, was in a serious car crash.
He was one of two passengers in an crash that sent three individuals to the hospital, with Mashkevich making the trip by helicopter to UMass Worcester. The other people in the car were released from the hospital shortly afterwards, but Mashkevich spent time in a coma, finally awaking weeks later.
His friends and family set up a GoFundMe.com account for him to help with the cost of his recovery, which included surgeries on his fractured wrists, elbow, pelvis, leg, hip and injured bladder. His full recovery was expected to take more than a year, as some of his bones were missing and were replaced with metal.
The GoFundme.com site hoped to raise $20,000 for his recovery but the donations stalled months ago. More than 165 people donated $11,584.
If you would like to help, click here.
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