I work nights, so I sleep during the day. Tuesday March 15th around 230pm I was aroused by my phone ringing. I looked and saw it was my mom and thought "I'm not ready to get up I'll call her back." As soon as it stopped ringing it started again, immediately my heart began to race, she never calls back to back. I answer to hear my mother, in a fairly calm voice telling me my grandmother had been in a wreck and was on the way to the hospital. I just said which one, she answered and I said I'm coming. I jump out of bed and immediately the worst thoughts come to my head, I could feel the adrenaline in my body and felt like I needed to get there as soon as possible. My thoughts only turned worse when my mom called back to say she was going to a different hospital. This let me know she was a level one trauma. I got to the hospital to find my entire family already in the waiting room of the ED. I was told we weren't allowed to see her because she was going straight to surgery. I didn't know what was wrong at this time. I learned that her major injury was her right leg and they were doing scans to see if there was internal injuries that needed to be addressed. They allowed us to visit two at a time. When I went back her leg was exposed as the doctors were looking at it and placing a new dressing. I don't want to describe it on here I'll simple state it was bad. Shortly we were told all her scans came back ok and they said "there are no life threatening injuries." The following two days she had two surgeries. The first was to have a rod placed from her knee to her ankle. The second was plastic surgery who did a flap and a skin graft to replace missing tissue. We are so blessed to still have her with us. You would be amazed if u saw her van that anyone had survived. (I will try to post pictures.) She was almost home when she tried to dodge a dog in the road and lost control. She hit a guardrail. The guardrail came in through the headlight on her side and went out the back passenger window. It had barely turned in time to miss her. It took nearly an hr to cut her out of the car.
Want to be amazingly disappointed?!? She was alert after the wreck, she saw the car was smoking and knew she was trapped. She sat there believing her car was going to catch fire and she would not be able to do anything. As these thoughts are going through her head she watched as not one but two cars drove by without stopping to help. I am constantly amazed by people in the worst ways.
As I write this I'm taking my turn staying the night with her. She is doing fairly well, it has been one week exactly. Of course she is in pain. But this morning the doctors came around to say that physical therapy would try to get her up today. This is the 1st time since the wreck, because plastic surgery just released her to do so yesterday. The dr also stated that she possibly may be able to go home tomorrow depending on how today goes.
I know I have an amazing family, but at times like this you can really see how true it is. For a week straight, my grandmother has never been alone. I absolutely love my family.
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