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Subject: Re: [OM] (OT) Need that Positive Energy Again
From: Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:24:02 -0500
Whoa! Lucky guy. I'm so glad he's coming around. We'll have to see what we can 
do about these No. 2 sons. <g>

I'll send some positive energy down your way as well.

--Bob


On Jan 21, 2012, at 5:26 AM, Andrew Fildes wrote:

> Good luck. My experience in the last week has been positive so I hope it rubs 
> off.
> Must be a #2 son thing. 
> After nine years of riding 42km per day (26 miles) to and from work, my 
> second son Chris was hit by a delivery van on Friday afternoon 8 days ago. 
> The screen in the emergency room displayed a grim brevity - 'Cyclist vs. 
> Truck - high speed'.  The impact was a straight 80kph (50mph) from behind. He 
> was quite astonishingly lucky - four broken ribs and a punctured lung, three 
> cracked vertebrae and a lot of scrapes. Helmets are compulsory here, thank 
> goodness. But head-butting the scenery at that speed has implications - in 
> this case some contusions of the forebrain. He was agitated and confused 
> going into intensive care and lost three days memory. His post traumatic 
> amnesia is classified as severe but he seems to be coming out of it very 
> well. His level of fitness is extremely high and that may have saved him. In 
> fact he rather annoyed them in the intensive care unit by getting up and 
> going for a stroll. Being confused, he tended to get lost.
> Last weekend was possibly the worst of my life. I feel like we've dodged a 
> very large bullet indeed. I'm still a bit shaky thinking about it. He's now 
> in a rehab centre and because of his earlier tendency to wander, they've put 
> in a locked, high dependency ward for a few days at first. I hope he takes 
> time to take a close look at the others in there - the serious brain injury 
> patients. And thinks what might have been. He should be over the short term 
> memory problem quite soon. I hope.
> One of the best things I did was to take a few pix each day - #1 son in the 
> UK said he thought it was in bad taste but was seriously relieved when he saw 
> the smile on day three and promptly posted it on his Facebook wall. Small 
> gallery here -
> http://www.pbase.com/afildes/chrishospital
> 
> We live in a semi-rural area but the police were there in five, the 
> paramedics in eight and he was inside one of the best trauma units in the 
> country in 80 minutes - and it's nearly 50k away. Any further out or any 
> sicker and they'd have used a helo. Car registration here is quite expensive 
> because it includes compulsory accident insurance - all medical costs are 
> covered and they'll pay him 80% of his average pay for the forseeable future, 
> even if you're a cyclist or pedestrian. It's a decent system. There were nice 
> touches like the paramedics waiting to talk to us at the emergency bay about 
> the circumstances. They were quite surprised that he survived at all.
> 
> Oh - and yes, the driver stopped. He's has been charged. Careless driving 
> occasioning GBH. He'd driven for four hours across the state without a break 
> and didn't see him. The cop I spoke to later was a little underimpressed by 
> that.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> 
> On 21/01/2012, at 4:40 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> 
>> Well, once again the call goes out for prayers, positive energy, good 
>> thoughts, etc., for No. 2 Son, Benjamin, who will be admitted to the Maine 
>> Medical Center on Sunday, and on Monday will undergo an aerobic valve 
>> replacement.
> 
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