PSA: Pay Attention at all times.

[boyst]

2 hours ago, boater said:

Ouch. That's going to be a lifelong condition to reckon with.

 

And broken rib... those suck. You can't breathe, and God forbid you attempt to laugh.

 

I hope for an uneventful recovery.

It's been one week.. it feels like a month.

 

He's pretty doped up, but he's able to walk, stand, and doing well considering. He's very lucky.

[Beck Water]

On 6/10/2023 at 7:46 PM, boyst said:

In any situation which could ever be dangerous, difficult, or suspect pay attention. Don't use your phone. Check your surroundings.

 

I don't need or want sympathy. I don't need the well wishes. I need people to be safe...

 

 

That being said. We were felling trees and a tree fell on my brother.  He is ok, concussed and broken bones. It could have been much worse. In literally the time it took for him to pull his phone out and answer a call the tree came down.

 

He was far enough away and the tree should have never fallen like it did. He was not paying full attention. That .01% of the thousands of trees I fell wasn't worth it.

 

I'm glad he's OK. 

 

On 6/10/2023 at 11:46 PM, boyst said:

Head laceration, concussion, missing a square inch of flash on the top of his head, bilateral collapsed lungs, only one broken rib, but a broken sacrum, a broken foot, and several broken vertebrates, and completely crushed T9. No surgery needed, thankfully.

 

Or relatively OK.  "completely crushed T9" sounds potentially life altering.  Has he movement in his legs?

[boyst]

2 hours ago, Beck Water said:

 

I'm glad he's OK. 

 

 

Or relatively OK.  "completely crushed T9" sounds potentially life altering.  Has he movement in his legs?

Yes, miraculously. The fracture split it diagonally with the bone breaking into smaller pieces; luckily it did not shift because the ER was scared of they moved him it could severe his spinal cord. They did a full body CT as soon as he arrived and stunned he sustained that much damage. 

 

I asked why the discs didn't burst with shards of bone breaking throughout his back. They said the spine is there to take the force and it did it's job

 

It won't let attach a layer of his CT scan; it's... Jacked.

 

Edit: as far as the nerves. I crushed my disc L5-S1 just a few days shy of 2 years ago from today. I couldn't feel my right leg. I didn't even have an issue until almost 8 hours after the workout I was doing for him, a trauma doctor kept checking all sorts of points. They put him in some contraption to help blood flow, everything. Baptist is a good hospital, luckily we got him to level 1 trauma. 

Edited June 19, 2023 by boyst

[Beck Water]

8 minutes ago, boyst said:

Yes, miraculously. The fracture split it diagonally with the bone breaking into smaller pieces; luckily it did not shift because the ER was scared of they moved him it could severe his spinal cord. They did a full body CT as soon as he arrived and stunned he sustained that much damage. 

 

I asked why the discs didn't burst with shards of bone breaking throughout his back. They said the spine is there to take the force and it did it's job

 

It won't let attach a layer of his CT scan; it's... Jacked.

 

Edit: as far as the nerves. I crushed my disc L5-S1 just a few days shy of 2 years ago from today. I couldn't feel my right leg. I didn't even have an issue until almost 8 hours after the workout I was doing for him, a trauma doctor kept checking all sorts of points. They put him in some contraption to help blood flow, everything. Baptist is a good hospital, luckily we got him to level 1 trauma. 

 

That’s tremendous.  Best wishes to your brother for an uncomplicated and full recovery

[CowgirlsFan]

Best wishes for continued improvement 🎊🎈🎉