Things could have been alot worse.....
A Sunday afternoon joyride turns not so joyful......
We had been out on the bike not long at all. It's a pretty cheap something to do, $5 bucks to fill up we ride, (you can get in about 140 +miles on that $5 bucks) we visit with each other, see pretty country, eat a cheap bite somewhere and come home.
Since Tbird turned 16 and started driving this was something E thought we could do together to help our emptiness syndrome.
I think I'm sticking around home for awhile from now on.
It was cool out. We had stopped a few times to layer up. Doc said that in the end it helped keep from being cut to the bone.
I don't know how E managed it but he hardly has any road rash at all, just banged up, bruised, a large goose egg on his noggin and 9 stitches in that beautiful bald head. He has breaks in shoulder and will have to see a specialist to get it fixed.
About the only thing that doesn't hurt on me from head to toe are my toes! But nothing is broke. It is mainly all down my left side. I skidded on my head (the left front) across the asphalt an hit my left cheek bone, my glasses protected my eye brow bone and my eye. My left elbow, wrist, hand and one finger are very bad but they say not broke. Bruised ribs, hip, kidney, and both my knees are banged up. It hurts so bad but I know it could be worse. I have alot alot of road rash, some places worse than others.
We had many nice and wonderful people help us.
I was so afraid I'd get ran over by a car while laying in the road and started to panic because I couldn't move or breathe. At one point I recognized my Uncle holding my hand turns out he was right behind us in his truck and saw it all. I only saw E once an his head was covered in blood. He wouldn't let them put him on a back board because they'd have to transport us separate since I was on one. Once he got in the ambulance I still couldn't see him but they started messing with him cause his bp dropped. I get car sick if I can't look out the window....it was a long ride let me tell you!
I saw alot of ceiling.
I was in a room for a long time.
I was strapped down all over and couldn't move.
I finally started to cry but that made things hurt worse and I had trouble breathing, so I sucked it up and did my best not to.
The accident was somewhere around 4:30pm it was about 8:30pm or later before I got let off that horrid board and out of the neck brace. I did everything I could to be able to be released to go home.
I finally got to go see Eric, lucky dude wasn't strapped down! He refused to go to a larger hospital because we'd be separated again. (stubborn sweet man of mine)
He will need to see a neurosurgeon about his shoulder.
For many, many hours it was very crazy, and hard to deal with because I am always the one in control.
It was just like you see on tv or in blooper clips, the centrifugal force just throws you and rolls you across the asphalt like a rag doll, there's nothing you can do but wait till you stop. I heard E trying to say my name but I couldn't move or talk back, he crawled over to me but stayed behind me so I couldn't see him and not freak out. I have a amazing man who was more worried about me than himself.
The bike............. its totalled.
This 17 year old boy just turned right in front of us never slowed down or stopped. Just a few more seconds an he'd have turned into the side of us, so it could have been alot worse. It's on tape from the gas station, and it took me a month before I could watch that video.
I also think my riding days, though very short lived, are through. At least for a long long long time.
I know accidents happen and that's what it was a accident. Everyone, not just kids, has got to stop, slow down and just pay attention to bikes, cars, trucks, so many accidents could be avoided.
I know God was with us.
He blessed us with amazing caring by-standers, paramedics, doctors and nurses.
What a great God to put my Uncle D and Aunt M there with us, it kept me from breaking down an to just let people take care of us instead of me worrying about taking care of us.
I also met, while on the pavement, one of my B Battery soldiers, not how I would have preferred to introduce myself as his Family Readiness Group President but hey, whatever works right! I gave him two names, without phone numbers, and that soldier made the phone call.
I can't say enough about this....God was with us this I know!
The strangers He put around us were a comfort to me. They were caring and nice and they kept me from panicking. I knew people were with E, taking care of him and that was my main concern because I couldn't.
I hope eventually the accident will stop replaying in my head and I can find some peace.
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