Bushway’s family insists that the attack was entirely random and is trying to do what they can to support him as he works through extensive physical and psychological recovery.
Last week’s surgeries helped him recover some of his eyesight, but doctors expect that he “will have substantial visual impairment for the rest of his life,” his family wrote in a GoFundMe page.
He will require additional surgeries — forcing him away from his job as a tractor-trailer driver, which requires him to have optimal eyesight to operate the heavy machinery.
“I’m lost for words, actually. This is just a bad thing that happened,” Bushway’s father told the outlet.
His father added that the family is trying to find special programs to help him recuperate so he can, hopefully, still retain his job once he recovers.
Bushway’s sister-in-law organized a GoFundMe for the family, pledging to put every penny towards his mounting medical expenses. As of Monday evening, more than 140 people had donated a total of roughly $27,000.
In April, another case of road rage ended in a man’s death. An irate grandpa driving on the Long Island Expressway swerved and purposefully crushed a motorcyclist against the guardrail.
The slain motorcyclist’s family described him as a “gentle spirit” who wouldn’t hurt a fly.
Last week, a Louisiana teenager and expectant mother was shot in the head by a man brake-checking her vehicle. She was rushed to a nearby hospital and delivered her premature baby girl via an emergency C-section.
The mother, 17-year-old Katelynn Strate, is not expected to survive. Her family plans to take her off life support on Tuesday. The newborn, weighing just over 3 pounds, is doing well.
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