BadT’s BodyBlog

Its one o’clock in the morning, I just got home from three days in the hospital with my wife. She has many more days in there and a long road to recovery. I’m too tired to write(havent slept since saturday) but I’m asking for everybody to say a little prayer for my wife. We went out off-roading Sunday with our friends from church that have jeeps. Not more than forty five minutes into the trail we decided to stop and have a little snack and take in the scenery. My wife decided that her and our son would climb up to the top of a rock formation, no more than 40 or 50 feet high. They made it to the top. While I took some photos, my wife made sure my son remembered on the way down to be very careful where he put his hands and feet. He’s only seven but just as adventurous and brave as my wife. She warned him not to grab or put his weight on something until he was SURE  that it would support him. It gets a little sketchy here but somehow a boulder from just above them started to break off and was heading directly for my son. My wife in the blink of an eye pushed him back against the rock face and ended up taking the boulder one on one. I’m guessing it weighed 150 or so pounds. Against her 130 pounds she didnt fare well. It knocked her backwards head frst over the side of the rock face and she plummeted to the bottom. And that big boulder, it landed on top of her left arm. At first we didnt know how bad it was, one of my buddies with extensive first aid knoledge tended to her while I raced like a mountain goat up the rock face to retreive my now traumatized son who just watched his mom fall lifeless to the bottom of the wall. Anyway, to make a long long long story short, my wife ended up severing her left arm from the elbow down. there were about two inches of skin holding it on. We made it out of there and to a hospital in about forty five minutes and got into surgery to re-attach the arm within 2 hrs. We were transfered to another hospital for the second surgery which was today and where we will have the rest of the surgeries. She has handled everything with more strength than I can ever imagine having. She willingly sacraficed her life to save our sons, as all of us parents would do. We have alot more surgeries and alot of rehab and therapy ahead of us. I’m hoping that anyone that has faith like I do will stop and say a prayer for her and ask God for a full and speedy recovery for her. And to give us the strength to get through this tough time.

Thanks and God bless everybody

T

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