UPDATE: August 5, 2006
Asia has given birth to Don's son 11 days early, on July 31, 2006. It seems fitting that she gave birth to him at home, alone, unassisted by humans.
Asia's bulletin page shows this picture of the little fella....
Any assistance you can pass along to Asia and family is still appreciated.
UPDATE: June 20, 2006
Please check out our new podcast, The Healthy Living Radio Show as I attempt to carry on the torch....
UPDATE: June 15, 2006
Asia provided a link to the Review Journal obituary for Don. Gives a sense of finality to this whole nightmare week.
UPDATE: June 13, 2006
Here's all we know from Asia at this time:
i really don't know much more than you all do, but i will try to explain the best i can.i don't have any details to give you guys, really. don went to vegas for business meetings on friday and saturday. he went without me because i didn't want to sit in the car for so long almost 8 months pregnant (it's almost a 2 hour drive each way) and then sit around in vegas with catty surrounded by strangers for two long days. so don went without me. it was the longest we'd ever been apart since we got married, and i cried many times in the weeks before because i didn't want him to be away from me for so long. i actually begged him on my hands and knees not to leave me for so many days, and he compromised by cancelling sunday (it was supposed to be three days of meetings)
anyway, don was driving home from vegas saturday night, it's a very long hour and a half straightaway down boring desert highway. he was doing it for the 4th time in two days. i'm sure he was doing 90 or more because people do speed there. it's straight and boring for 100+ miles.
he swerved to miss something and overcorrected and the jeep rolled across many lanes of highway. he was alone, he didn't hit anyone. he promised me he'd be home by 5 or 6 at the latest, but he didn't actually leave vegas til several hours later, so i know he was rushing to get home ASAP.
that's all there is. an accident, nothing more.
bud (my ex-hubby) went to get stuff from the car yesterday and i asked if he got the papers from the glove compartment, and he said there WAS no glove compartment left. bud brought back don's wedding ring and little matching turtle necklace which we both wore every day since we bought them in hawaii. i put the ring on my turtle necklace, and i put don's necklace on catty. she smiled when i put it on her.
my mother is flying into town today. i haven't seen her in over 15 years. i'm not thrilled about having her here, but it's better than being alone. anything is better than being alone. i wish i could sleep, i wish i could eat, i wish i could have my husband back.
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The saddest day of my life....
Please, allow me a little catharsis....
Most of you know how the last year has been an utter roller coaster. How I went through two hospitalizations, the sickest I've ever been in my life, and how thanks to a wonderful cyber-friend and her husband, I dropped a hundred pounds and 16 inches off my waist.
That was thanks to Don Lemmon and his wife Asia Carrera. They made it possible. Never charged me a penny.
In exchange I worked for Don, promoted Don's program, lived the program, did three radio shows that aired in Tampa on a station that had more people working for the station than listening to it, and plans to voice his fitness DVD that was to shoot this past weekend in Vegas. Plans for that fell through, but Don did have work to do this weekend, and he drove in Friday and Saturday for meetings with potential investors. Don planned to meet with me this afternoon before work at the Riviera briefly before going bowling with friends at the Orleans.
That will never happen now.
Right before I went to bed last night, about 2am, I logged onto Don's message board and found the following post from Asia:
The police just left here an hour or so ago. Don was driving home from Las Vegas and he got in a car accident. He rolled the Jeep. He's dead.That's all I know. Well, that and I have a one year old daughter who won't remember her father, and I'm almost 8 months pregnant with a son who will never see his father.
I don't know how I'm going to get through this, I really don't. I should be planning the birth of my son, and I'm planning the funeral of my husband.
I can't believe this is my life. I'm never going to see my husband again. My other half, my soulmate, my partner for life.
I don't know what else to say. My life went from being a dream come true to hell on earth in an instant.
Well I just thought I should let you guys know, so there it is... don't know what else to say.
I need to ask for your help for his wife, whose life now is shattered. If you can help, email me and I'll come up with a mail address or paypal address. I don't wanna post them here, for fear that the @$#@ papparazzi will descend on them.
Right now, your prayers for Asia, Catalina, and unborn Devon, are truly needed.
Don Lemmon - 9/4/68 - 6/11/06
Aileen, Don, Randy and I at our Vegas gathering November 2005.
The whole bunch of us at our parting toast.
Farewell, Don. We'll miss you, dammit!
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