If You Go
What: Benefit for family of Brian Lamont
When: 11 a.m. Sunday, March 24
Where: Monroe Moose Lodge, 639 3rd Ave.
• For more info on how to help the Lamonts, contact Pastor Randy Booth at Monroe United Methodist Church, 608-325-6700.
• Donations are also being accepted at First National Bank, Att: Brian Lamont Benefit, 1625 10th St., Monroe, WI 53566.
MONROE - A benefit is planned later this month to help the family of a Monroe man seriously injured in a semi crash.
Brian Lamont, 33, has been in the trauma unit at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison since Feb. 15. He's undergone 13 or 14 surgeries since then to repair spinal fractures and a severe leg injury, estimates his wife Hailey.
"One was about seven hours long," she said.
The benefit for the Lamont family is at 11 a.m. Sunday, March 24, and will be at the Monroe Moose Lodge. It includes a silent auction, 50/50 raffle and a $5 meal. Zuber's in Monroe has donated brats for the luncheon.
The community has already rallied around the Lamonts and their five children, who range in age from 19 months to 16 years. Lamont is the sole provider for his family and is not expected to be able to work for at least several months.
Friends have coordinated an ongoing meal drive to help the family in the meantime. A link to sign up through the mealtrain.com website is available online at the Monroe United Methodist Church's website at monroeumc.com.
Hailey Lamont says the outpouring of support has been helping her and her family through a stressful time.
"We are unbelievably grateful. We've had complete strangers put food on our porch," she said.
Her husband was driving a semi on Wisconsin 81 early Friday, Feb. 15, when he lost control on a curve west of Beloit. The semi left the road, became airborne and then overturned and slid about 100 yards.
It took emergency crews more than an hour to extricate Lamont from the cab of the semi, according to the Rock County Sheriff's Department.
A former football player for the Cheesemakers and then the Badgers, Lamont's size has been a challenge in his recovery. At 6-foot-8 and 425 pounds, he didn't fit into an MRI machine at the first hospital he was taken to, in Janesville, his wife said.
At the UW Hospital, doctors were able to check Lamont for brain injuries and they've since ruled out any cognitive brain injury, she said.
Brian Lamont, 33, has been in the trauma unit at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison since Feb. 15. He's undergone 13 or 14 surgeries since then to repair spinal fractures and a severe leg injury, estimates his wife Hailey.
"One was about seven hours long," she said.
The benefit for the Lamont family is at 11 a.m. Sunday, March 24, and will be at the Monroe Moose Lodge. It includes a silent auction, 50/50 raffle and a $5 meal. Zuber's in Monroe has donated brats for the luncheon.
The community has already rallied around the Lamonts and their five children, who range in age from 19 months to 16 years. Lamont is the sole provider for his family and is not expected to be able to work for at least several months.
Friends have coordinated an ongoing meal drive to help the family in the meantime. A link to sign up through the mealtrain.com website is available online at the Monroe United Methodist Church's website at monroeumc.com.
Hailey Lamont says the outpouring of support has been helping her and her family through a stressful time.
"We are unbelievably grateful. We've had complete strangers put food on our porch," she said.
Her husband was driving a semi on Wisconsin 81 early Friday, Feb. 15, when he lost control on a curve west of Beloit. The semi left the road, became airborne and then overturned and slid about 100 yards.
It took emergency crews more than an hour to extricate Lamont from the cab of the semi, according to the Rock County Sheriff's Department.
A former football player for the Cheesemakers and then the Badgers, Lamont's size has been a challenge in his recovery. At 6-foot-8 and 425 pounds, he didn't fit into an MRI machine at the first hospital he was taken to, in Janesville, his wife said.
At the UW Hospital, doctors were able to check Lamont for brain injuries and they've since ruled out any cognitive brain injury, she said.