On February 20, 1009, I was sitting in Jan Chafey's living room talking with her about a job interview I had scheduled for the next week. Jay reached me on my cell phone and told me in a shaken voice told me that Scott had been in an accident with a horse and that he was being taken to the emergency room. In the final moments of training a horse, the animal rared up and lost his balance. Scott managed to get out of the way of the saddle horn, but he was caught under the animal. A girl and two boy scouts were able to robe the legs of the horse because it was in shock. Then the boys lifted the legs while the girl dragged Scott out. He thought he had just really strained his back.I wish...
I met them at Deaconess and it was awful to see my son on his hands and knees to try to relieve the pain. Since he didn't go in an ambulance, he had to wait in the waiting room for 2 hours. I will never return to Deaconess. Once he was taken back, the crew realized the severity of his injuries. X-rays indicated that he had a broken back and punctured lung and damaged nerves in his leg. They made me leave his side when they inserted the chest tube because of his screams.
I held together strong until that moment when they put him in the ambulance to take him to OU Trauma Center. The siren screeched on and I let out a sob and could not stop crying. He reached his right hand over his head and with his eyes closed told me he was going to be okay. It was 2 a.m. He had barely escaped with his life. Two days later he would have back surgery that included 6 rods and 12 screws.
No comments:
Post a Comment