Nikki
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My husband, Steve, was in an accident Sunday morning coming home from work (he works 3rd). I got the call a little after 8am that morning. When I got there, he was in the CT scan and still kind of out of it. He lost a chunk of skin and tissue about the size of a baseball from his elbow. His entire elbow bone was exposed and there was one large vein laying right on top of the vein that miraculously didn't get severed. They said he was extremely lucky that it didn't sever it.
He was on one highway. He was getting ON to the ramp that connects to another highway. An ambulance was on the right side of the ramp responding to another accident. Steve didn't see the ambulance until he turned that corner and by then it was too late. It was raining and when he locked his brakes, he skid right into the ambulance. He blacked out as soon as he hit and he woke up when they were taking him out of his truck (another ambulance had responded by this time). Thankfully nobody else on the scene was hurt. Nobody was in the ambulance or anything.
The cop said that he should have been able to see the ambulance, but Steve said he didn't until it was too late because of the curve. There was no cop at the bottom of the ramp, no flares, nothing. The doctor told us that someone was killed from the exact same thing happening recently. Steve's work called and said that four other guys almost wrecked in the same spot that morning. One came very close to plowing right into the cops car. They said there was NO WAY to see the accident until it was too late.
We're lucky that the worst injury was his elbow. Not sure if there is permanent nerve damage or not. His ring finger and pinky are numb and he can't move them correctly. He may have to have skin grafting done on the future. He also had a big knot on his head and lots of cuts and bruises. Today his leg has started bothering him also.
I'm pretty put out with the hospital and how they handled things. His bone was left completely exposed from 8am until 6pm. They attempted stitching it up twice before calling plastic surgery down to do it. They stictched it, unstitched it. Stitched it again, unstitched it again. Finally they called Plastic Surgery down to fix it. I plan on sending a letter letting them know how dissapointed I am with the care he received.
His truck is totaled. We didn't have full coverage on it because of how old it was. Just liability. We called some places and the most they quoted was $55. Our neighbor that towed it home for us drove it around town today and someone offered him $200 for it. We took it.
Please include him in your prayers. I had to take him back to the Plastic Surgeon yesterday because he had bled through the bandaging. They changed it at 11am and it was soaked through again by 4pm yesterday. Then last night he started running a fever. Of course I immediately thought infection. It broke in the middle of the night. I changed the dressings and so far, there is no bleeding...just oozing. At least the bleeding has stopped.
He thought he was going to go back to work tomorrow, but since he was running a fever and all, the doctor called me a little bit ago and he won't be going back until sometime after July 5th.
Please keep us in your prayers.
Oh, here are pictures of his truck and one of his arm:
http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welc ... ZM¬ag=1
After seeing his truck, I don't know how he didn't end up with more injuries. God was obviously watching out for him.
He was on one highway. He was getting ON to the ramp that connects to another highway. An ambulance was on the right side of the ramp responding to another accident. Steve didn't see the ambulance until he turned that corner and by then it was too late. It was raining and when he locked his brakes, he skid right into the ambulance. He blacked out as soon as he hit and he woke up when they were taking him out of his truck (another ambulance had responded by this time). Thankfully nobody else on the scene was hurt. Nobody was in the ambulance or anything.
The cop said that he should have been able to see the ambulance, but Steve said he didn't until it was too late because of the curve. There was no cop at the bottom of the ramp, no flares, nothing. The doctor told us that someone was killed from the exact same thing happening recently. Steve's work called and said that four other guys almost wrecked in the same spot that morning. One came very close to plowing right into the cops car. They said there was NO WAY to see the accident until it was too late.
We're lucky that the worst injury was his elbow. Not sure if there is permanent nerve damage or not. His ring finger and pinky are numb and he can't move them correctly. He may have to have skin grafting done on the future. He also had a big knot on his head and lots of cuts and bruises. Today his leg has started bothering him also.
I'm pretty put out with the hospital and how they handled things. His bone was left completely exposed from 8am until 6pm. They attempted stitching it up twice before calling plastic surgery down to do it. They stictched it, unstitched it. Stitched it again, unstitched it again. Finally they called Plastic Surgery down to fix it. I plan on sending a letter letting them know how dissapointed I am with the care he received.
His truck is totaled. We didn't have full coverage on it because of how old it was. Just liability. We called some places and the most they quoted was $55. Our neighbor that towed it home for us drove it around town today and someone offered him $200 for it. We took it.
Please include him in your prayers. I had to take him back to the Plastic Surgeon yesterday because he had bled through the bandaging. They changed it at 11am and it was soaked through again by 4pm yesterday. Then last night he started running a fever. Of course I immediately thought infection. It broke in the middle of the night. I changed the dressings and so far, there is no bleeding...just oozing. At least the bleeding has stopped.
He thought he was going to go back to work tomorrow, but since he was running a fever and all, the doctor called me a little bit ago and he won't be going back until sometime after July 5th.
Please keep us in your prayers.
Oh, here are pictures of his truck and one of his arm:
http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welc ... ZM¬ag=1
After seeing his truck, I don't know how he didn't end up with more injuries. God was obviously watching out for him.
