Fundraiser to aid young mother’s desperate plight

Kim Whittley put a hand to her left cheek: “Every morning when I wake up, the weight of the world’s right here. The pain never stops.”

Her face and mouth were extensively injured in a frightful fall from the bed of a utility bucket truck following Thayer’s Sept. 1 homecoming parade.

One second, Kim was sitting in the truck. The next, she was on the street writhing in pain. “I don’t know how it happened. I was waiting for traffic before getting down, then I was on the ground spitting out teeth and rocks.”