MADINA LAKE BASSIST MATTHEW LEONE

For those who don’t know, a few nights ago Matthew was severely injured while trying to stop a man who was beating his wife on the street one block away from his apartment [in Chicago]. Matthew was all alone and managed to save the girl but got beaten pretty badly in the process.

The couple then left him laying unconscious in the middle of the street. Both have been subsequently arrested. Matthew is currently in the hospital recovering from brain surgery, a fractured skull, [his jaw is] broken in two places and [he has] a broken nose. The doctors have removed a part of his skull to allow for the swelling in his brain to subside and we’re currently waiting for leakage from a haematoma to stop.

“We don’t have health insurance. It’s a horrible coincidence, because as we’ve been on tour, it’s been hard to manage bills,” Nathan said. “And then you get home, and you start writing again, and the bills just become too hard to catch up with. So, no, we don’t have insurance. But we’ll deal with that when we have to.”

I can’t even image what it would be like for your brother not to recognize you, my prayers are with you and your family.

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~Ohh! So Famous!