Update on Ben Wolverton, David Farland's Son

Per Dave's 05.20.13 Kick Me Newsletter:

David Farland’s Kick in the Pants—Dealing with Mental Exhaustion

Most of you know that my son Ben had a longboarding accident recently and suffered a traumatic brain injury. I’m sitting in the hospital as I write this.

Earlier this morning, Ben’s speech therapist talked to my wife and I about dealing with “mental exhaustion.” She pointed out that Ben will tire easily after doing homework, watching television, or otherwise performing complex activities. Things that were easy for him to do two months ago may be impossible—or very difficult.

When he is exhausting himself, his face will go slack, showing little emotion, and he will literally lose the ability to focus. So he will need to take “mental breaks” frequently, perhaps every fifteen minutes or so at first. Right now, Ben can’t watch an entire movie, for example. So going out to the movies is something that we shouldn’t try for awhile.

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Stay up-to-date on Ben's condition and find out how you can help at www.HelpWolverton.com

David Farland Update

From Dave Farland's blog:

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Thank you for the outpouring of support yesterday, especially to those who spread (and will spread) the word about the Book Bomb through social media and on their blogs. I have a few update for you all.

We now have a website dedicated to Ben, thanks to James Duckett, who put it together. The site has updates about Ben's status, links to the donation page, and talks about the book bomb. The address is www.helpwolverton.com/.

For tomorrow, you should know that anything purchased through these Amazon links for Nightingale(http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006P7SEBY/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=B006P7SEBY&link_code=as3&tag=davidfarnet-20

) and Million Dollar Outlines (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00B9JYJ6W/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=B00B9JYJ6W&link_code=as3&tag=davidfarnet-20) will help Dave. He gets a small percentage of anything purchased through those links. So, if you want to buy several other books or products tomorrow, with or without Nightingale and Million Dollar Outlines, please do. Those who are doing blog posts, please update your Amazon links to the two provided here. I sent most of you the regular links.

Finally, don't forget the book bomb tomorrow! This event can really help out Ben and Dave, but only if we follow through with it. We need to work together if we want to make this successful. So, I challenge each of you to try to think of one more person or outlet that you can tell about the book bomb. Today, I'm going to put it in our local newspaper.

Don't forget you can "attend" the book bomb on facebook here.
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Denise Barker

David Farland's Family Needs Your Help

From Dave Farland’s blog:

As many of you know, Dave’s son, Ben, was in a serious long-boarding accident last week. He is 16 and suffers from severe brain trauma, a cracked skull, broken pelvis and tail bone, burnt knees, bruised lungs, broken ear drum, road rash, and is currently in a coma. His family has no insurance.

We are having a book bomb this Wednesday on behalf of Ben Wolverton to help his family out. You can view the event’s facebook page here.

For those that don’t know, a book bomb is an event where participants purchase a book on a specific day to support the author, or, in this case, a young person in serious need: Ben Wolverton.

Many of you have expressed sympathy for Dave and Ben and have asked if you could help. Now you can. We need you to help Ben get the most out of this book bomb. Right now we are focused on spreading the word and telling others about it. If you could share this event on facebook, twitter, pinterest, your blog, or through email, please do. This is a way everyone reading this can help, whatever their financial situation.

On Wednesday, we will have the book bomb. If you haven’t yet purchased Nightingale or Million Dollar Outlines, please consider doing so on Wednesday. If you have already purchased them, you can donate money to Ben and his family here.

My prayers are going up for Dave and Ben and their family.

Denise Barker