Yesterday was not a happy day!

I decided to post here for things so I don't have to keep typing to let people know how Michael is or have to keep calling people to update them.

Yesterday morning started out as any morning. I left the house at 7 to get to work by 7:30. I was very early as we didn't have patients until 9:00, but I had forgotten this fact. Around 8:15 I got a phone call and I couldn't understand what the person was saying. Then I realized it was Michael, but I still couldn't understand him. I asked him to say what he said again and then all I heard was "Michael. Bad Accident." I asked him if there was someone around that I could speak to and he handed the phone to someone. That person told me that he was in a bad car accident and tried to tell me where he was located. I was drawing a blank on where the position was (it was very close to home). After he told me he must have thought that he hung up the phone. Well, he didn't and the phone called me back. I was unable to hang up the phone since his phone was off the hook. Needless to say I was able to hear everything that was happening. I had to listen to Michaels screams of pain. I heard him tell someone that his left leg was all twisted and under his right leg. Then I heard him say that he was bleeding very badly on his leg and he was trying to hold pressure to get it to stop.

I kept yelling into the phone trying to see if they could hear something, but there was too much going on to hear me. In the mean time I am freaking out trying to find my boss' number to tell him I was at the office and what was going on. After I did that I called my dad to find numbers for Michael's parents because they aren't stored in my head or my phone. I was finally able to get ahold of his mother and eventually his dad called me back. I listened to the phone and what was happening for about 45 minutes until they hung up the phone. I was listening to see if I could hear where they might be taking him. After awhile it sounded like they were in a helicopter...and indeed they were. He and the other driver were lifeflighted to some downtown hospitals. They were taken to different ones and neither hospital knew who they were receiving so it was another long haul to find out where my husband was going.

After I found out for sure where he was at, one of my co-workers drove me to the hospital and stayed with me while I tried to find out what was going on. The social worker told me that both of his legs were pretty damaged and that he was going in for a cat scan and I could see him in about 45 minutes. I was pretty worried about his right leg since he hurt that pretty badly almost 4 years ago. However, she was wrong and it turned out to be his left leg only. He ended up breaking the left hip, left femur and right arm (the ulna).

Let me say that the picture above looks much worse than it probably was...they had to cut the roof off the car to get him out. The driver of the other car also broke his femur. It was the other guy's fault, but he hit a patch of black ice and over-corrected causing him to hit Michael pretty much head on. The police officer said that there were no skid marks so Michael had no time to respond to what was happening.

He went in for surgery around 3:20 and was out around 6:15. The doctor came and showed me his xrays. They are giving his hip 50% chance of surviving. They need the blood supply to be restored. It will be about 3-4 months before we know what is going on with it. If it does in fact die he will need a hip replacement.

They didn't fix his arm yet. The reason was there were way too many trauma cases brought in from terrible accidents that they fixed what was critical on him and are planning on fixing his arm tomorrow.

Michael's mom flew in last night and got to the hospital just as the doctor was explaining the surgery to me. Michael's co-worker Gary was with me most of the day and he is dealing with the insurance and everything for me. Fortunately this is most likely going to be work related and taken care of by Worker's Comp and the other guys insurance.

Today we went up and saw him and he looked a lot better and was more alert. The pain meds he is on isn't helping too much. He really wants his arm fixed soon as that is what is causing him the most pain right now.

Cameron has been staying with a wonderful friend of mine, Shannon. He really wants to see Michael, but I am not ready for that just yet. I told him that I would try to take him up on Friday. He told me that he just wants to give him a hug and a kiss to make him feel better. If that doesn't make you cry I don't know what will.

On a side note, Michael lost his glasses in the accident so I ran to the eye doctor today to order the same pair that he had lost. They are going to try to have it ready by Friday. This would be nice since by Friday he may be sitting up enough to want to watch tv or something. I wasn't sure how to take care of paying for it since I don't have workers comp case number yet, but his co-worker told me to use Michael's company credit card and get them that way.

His company has been awesome. The presidents son called Gary and told him that they are going to do everything that they can for me and for Michael. Everyone has been a Godsend!

I want to thank all of you for your support and prayers through this rough time!