About a month ago, my sister brought her Rhino down and left it with us. She lives in a highly populated area and wasn't able to use it very often and thought it would be fun for us to use and then it would be here (in the 'country') when she came to visit.
Here he is the next morning. Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City is the most amazing hospital on the planet! The best nurses and doctors work there and we are so grateful!
Last Monday for Family Night we went up in the mountains to roast hot dogs and make s'mores with my husband's family. My 14 year old took the Rhino for a ride with his cousin and he tipped it over. He was wearing a seat belt and helmet, but stuck his hand out intinctively to 'catch' himself and ended up losing part of his ring finger and breaking two other fingers (compound fractures) and a couple bones in his hand. His cousin was unharmed and ran over a mile back to tell us what had happened.
After waiting 8 hours for surgery, this is what his hand looked like... (my husband took photos of the injury for A to see later, but like S says- it looks like a zombie movie, so I won't share those with you).
Orange arrow shows his missing ring finger. Green arrow is his pinned index finger and blue arrow is his pinned middle finger (the bone got twisted and they had to do surgery to fix it too). Initially they were worried about the ring finger not having enough skin to keep the whole thing, but with lots of fasting and prayer and a Priesthood blessing, the skin looks really good and he's going to keep half of it. If you remember, he is my guitarist and pianist, so he is VERY thankful. Just another testimony to me that Heavenly Father is aware of us and hears and answers our prayers.
Here he is the next morning. Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City is the most amazing hospital on the planet! The best nurses and doctors work there and we are so grateful!
He is doing really well and has to have one more surgery for a skin graph on Wednesday and then he'll be good to go. Needless to say, my hatred of ATV's has doubled.
5 comments:
That's so crazy. I'm glad it's just his hand though and that it will mostly be okay. I feel the same way about ATV's. Does this bump back Sam's surgery? :)
oh Kim, I had no idea...so glad he is relatively okay and that things werent worse.....fasting and prayer are amazing things.....we also have a "No ATV" rule at our house...one of Haydens friends had a really serious accident on one and ended up in the hospital for weeks....we simply wont even chance it.
I swear, those [bleep] Rhino's must be the work of the Devil! I sure hope he will heal quickly and that he AND you will be blessed during the emotional and physical recovery. If you need anything that I can do -- please call me!
I just heard, I'm so sorry, but SO glad that it wasn't any worse! That's great that they were able to keep most of this finger, that would have been devistating. (Fasting and Prayer can work miracles, what would be do without the Gospel!!??)
wow... I leave "blog-land" for a few days and lose track of what has been going on. SO SORRY to hear about your little "adventure". I'm forwarding it to my in-laws, because they have a mule as well. Keep us posted on his progress.
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