Emily and Christian RR2
Stephanie
Does anyone know how Emily and Christian from RR2 are doing? I read on the
MTV page that they had been involved in a serious car accident. I never
heard about the accident on the news, so does anyone have any details about
what happened?
Thanks.
David Tripp
here are 2 articles about the accident:
An auto accident turns a young woman's vacation into a tangle of medical and
travel logistics - including $16,000 in air fare - and the surgery hasn't
even begun.
Emily Bailey figures she's had a bummer of a summer. The former Flora, Ill.,
resident broke her back in three places in an automobile accident June 28
while vacationing on the French Riviera. Then she and her family had to
spend almost $16,000 for air fare to get her back to St. Louis for quick
surgery.
Bailey, 20, arrived Friday afternoon at Lambert Field on a Trans World
Airlines flight from Paris. With her were her mother, Shirley Bailey, who is
a registered nurse, and her sister, Danielle Birch, 22, who flew to Paris to
bring her home.
An Abbott ambulance was waiting on the tarmac to rush her to Barnes-Jewish
Hospital. There, a trauma surgeon, Dr. Perren Cobb, was waiting to assess
her condition and decide whether to operate to repair her spinal fractures
and several facial fractures.
Donald Bailey, who farms in Flora, was relieved to see his daughter able to
walk down the gangplank with a back brace. He ran over to hug her lightly
before she let herself down on the ambulance stretcher. "I'm fine now,
Daddy," she told him.
The $12,000 TWA air fare was the cost of the nine-seat space the Bailey
party required on the fully loaded, 190-passenger Boeing 767. Emily Bailey
could not sit up and was required to lie supine on the stretcher during the
flight. The family also had to pay nearly $4,000 more for a similar
arrangement on a French plane to Paris from Nice.
Donald Bailey borrowed the money from family members to bring his daughter
home.
He said TWA was the only airline that would talk with him about getting his
daughter flown back. He said another U.S. airline referred him to its
ambulance air service, which would have cost five times more.
Donn Walker, a TWA spokesman, said Bailey was flying at the peak of the
summer tourist season, and that her direct flight to St. Louis from Paris
was fully booked. He said TWA had to bump nine passengers to accommodate the
three women and the stretcher. The airline sold the tickets at the fair
market price of $1,337 apiece, or a total of $12,033.
"We bent over backward to help them. But when we have a full flight, we
don't and can't afford to give away tickets free . . . . I do sympathize
with the family."
The logistics in getting Emily Bailey home began inauspiciously with a call
to the Baileys' family doctor in Flora, Bradley Reynolds. Shirley Bailey
called from the trauma hospital in Nice, after she ran into a language
barrier with French doctors and what she described as their zero-bedside
manner and less-than-sterile hospital conditions.
Reynolds knew Emily Bailey would need specialized, extensive surgery,
preferably in an American hospital. He advised Shirley Bailey to bring her
daughter home as soon as possible.
Reynolds took advantage of Barnes-Jewish Hospital's year-old Doctors Access,
a 24-hour physician-to-physician consulting hot line, and talked with Dr.
Tim Buchman, head of the trauma service. After talking with the French
doctors through an AT&T interpreter, Buchman seconded Reynolds' suggestion.
Emily Bailey, who had lived the past year in Los Angeles, was touring Europe
on a three-month youth Eurailpass. The accident occurred when she and three
Norwegian friends were returning to Nice from the Italian Riviera. Their
Volkswagen convertible collided with a tractor-trailer on a rain-slick
coastal road. All four were hospitalized.
Late Friday, after initial screening by Dr. Cobb and other trauma
specialists, Emily Bailey was chipper and resting comfortably at
Barnes-Jewish, clutching a stuffed animal she had brought earlier for her
sister, Elizabeth, 9.
"I want to get well and travel again. My goal now is Norway in September,"
she said with a smile. She said the "Magnificent Four" survivors planned a
reunion there then.
The driver of the car, Christian Brevik, had worked with her at a film
production company in Los Angeles that packaged an MTV cable travel show
called "Road Rules." On the program, the two were among five 20-somethings
who tooled around the U.S. in a Winnebago seeking out unbeaten paths.
Cobb said his patient might make her September deadline. "We're not sure yet
whether we'll have to operate on the spinal fractures, but they appear not
to be too serious," he said. Plastic surgery is scheduled for Wednesday to
repair facial fractures in the right cheek and forehead and a possible
broken jaw.
"She's young and should heal quickly. I expect a full recovery," the doctor
added.
Donald Bailey said he had no regrets about spending the $16,000 to bring his
daughter home. "It was a bargain. . . . To see her walk down off that plane
today was worth the week and a half of turmoil dealing with this nightmare."
And here is one just about emily and the accident:
Emily Bailey hopes the third time is a charm later this year when she heads
back to Europe.
Her childhood dream of seeing Paris was thwarted twice this summer.
"I missed it the first time when my train ticket was stolen. The second time
I went there, I was on my back on a stretcher. I got to see the sky," said
Bailey, 20, of Flora, Ill.
Bailey's streak of bad luck began early last month when she fell asleep on a
Eurorail train speeding through France.
"The thieves used ether to knock me out," she said. "They took my CDs, my CD
player, my Eurorail pass, everything."
It was bad enough to wake up and realize all her things had been stolen,
Bailey said. Worse was when she was booted off the train for not having her
ticket before she got to Paris.
A few weeks later - after a 14-course meal in Italy - she and three
Norwegian friends were headed back to their apartment in the French Riviera.
Bailey does not remember the car accident the rainy night of June 29. She
was riding in a Volkswagen convertible that was struck by a tractor-trailer
only about five minutes from her apartment in Nice, France. Nearly 20
firefighters worked to pull her and her three friends from the wreckage.
"I was asleep in the back seat," she said, adding, "The only time I don't
wear a seat belt, and we get into an accident."
Doctors in France found several fractures in her back. When she returned to
St. Louis on Friday after a trans-Atlantic flight on a stretcher, doctors at
Barnes-Jewish Hospital found more fractures in her back, and they discovered
a broken jaw.
She said she was glad to be under the care of English-speaking doctors. "In
the hospital in France, it was weird not understanding the doctors," she
said.
Bailey will have plastic surgery Wednesday to fix the jaw and part of her
cheekbone crushed in the accident. She hopes to return to Europe for a
reunion of sorts with her friends.
Stephanie wrote in message <68evlq$lb7$1...@winter.news.erols.com>...
NoraG1
That was awhile ago. I heard that Emily broke her back from the accident. I
hope she is getting better.
Barbara MacRae
In article <68h020$2...@news.mcn.net> "David Tripp" <gat...@mcn.net> writes:
>here are 2 articles about the accident:
>An auto accident turns a young woman's vacation into a tangle of medical and
>travel logistics - including $16,000 in air fare - and the surgery hasn't
>even begun.
>Emily Bailey figures she's had a bummer of a summer. The former Flora, Ill.,
>resident broke her back in three places in an automobile accident June 28
>while vacationing on the French Riviera. Then she and her family had to
>spend almost $16,000 for air fare to get her back to St. Louis for quick
>surgery.
>The logistics in getting Emily Bailey home began inauspiciously with a call
>to the Baileys' family doctor in Flora, Bradley Reynolds. Shirley Bailey
>called from the trauma hospital in Nice, after she ran into a language
>barrier with French doctors and what she described as their zero-bedside
>manner and less-than-sterile hospital conditions.
>Reynolds knew Emily Bailey would need specialized, extensive surgery,
>preferably in an American hospital. He advised Shirley Bailey to bring her
>daughter home as soon as possible.
Okay. Now, I'm not personally familiar with the hospital in Nice, but
I'm having a hard time buying this. This whole area of the Riviera is
super duper wealthy, AND it caters to rich people. Lots of OLD rich
people, in my experience. And when you have an area that caters to
old rich people, you almost always have - good hospitals. For example,
you get sick in the caribbean, don't fly home! Fly to Bermuda! Old
rich people = state of the art hospitals! I just don't believe that
the hospitals in Nice (unless she was at some youth clinic, but
even then) have "less-than-sterile" conditions.
SECOND - some of the best hospitals in the WORLD are in Paris!
Why on earth would they take her home when it's not unlikely that
the procedures that were done on her were pioneered in France!
Are we supposed to feel sorry for this family that they allowed
their xenophobia to make a stupid decision for them? I pity them,
yeah, but not for the money they spent, but because they're lame.
They could have flown her to Paris for a fraction of the cost, she
would have gotten world class medical care, and they could have
kept themselves out of debt.
-Barb, mystified
Brian Fischer
IM SERIUOS, while vacationing in colorado she died in an avalanche!!
Honey50922
>t is totally officaial EMILY DIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>IM SERIUOS, while vacationing in colorado she died in an avalanche
this cannot be true!! if so, when did it happen?
NoraG1
>t is totally officaial EMILY DIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>IM SERIUOS, while vacationing in colorado she died in an >avalanche
What a liar! She did not die. This is just a asshole looking for attention.
Don't believe this crap. This person doesn't even know how to spell serious.
Sean Harding
Brian Fischer (Polar...@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
[ridiculous amount of crap snipped]
> It is totally officaial EMILY DIED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> IM SERIUOS, while vacationing in colorado she died in an avalanche!!
Say whatever the hell you want, but there is *NO REASON* to quote the
entire damn post just to add two lines. Learn to snip or don't reply
at all.
Thanks.
sean