Saturday, July 5, 2008

This post will be long or short. I'm not sure. It depends on how "it" flows today.

On Thursday July 3rd I received a call that my father had been in a horrible car accident and was in critical condition at Mercy Medical. As it turns out he wasn't in critical condition when he arrived, just broken in several places and in need of a really good set of surgeons to put him together again. Then they decided to do an exploratory surgery on his stomach and when they intubated them he aspirated. Badly. That sent him into Critical, might not make it through the night, stage. So, my aunt and uncle and my family hopped in cars are went flying for the hospital 3 hours away. We arrived at midnight and went in to see him. He looked rough. He's in traction from both ends, on a ventilator, and has sever chemical burns on his rear end from sitting in the gas. He's going to have a hell of a shiner too.
So at this point the injuries are;
broken neck at C4
shattered femur at the hip
chemical burns of the backside
aspiration
kidney shut down

So I guess what I'm telling you; my 4 faithful readers; is I may not be around much.
I will be running over there for every surgery, but much to my aunts disdain I am not dropping everything and moving there to be with my drug induced coma father. I think she final got it last night. If I kill myself now trying to run back and forth all the time I won't be able to be here when he needs us the most, when he's awake and "up".
As it is we pulled an all nighter to drive there, to see him, and drive back. I spent all day yesterday getting my dads truck out of impound.

On man I forgot to publish this and today was a real ring dinger.

I don't have the energy to update about it.

I'll be back Monday. Maybe.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

wishing you and your family the best. Sounds like some hard times.
For some reason I had been thinking about you today wondering how you were doing.

Jen said...

Sending lots of prayers and positive thoughts your way. I hope your dad has a speedy recover.

HUGS

Anonymous said...

Wow, Hope everything turns out well

Anonymous said...

Sending lots of love and prayers your way....