Terri, just going back and reading some of the messages I've missed.
Sure sorry to hear about your husband, and hope all is going well.
Thoughts and prayers coming for you.
Gloria
On Jun 13, 2007, at 10:40 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(I want apologized if you have already seen this from other groups
I'm on)
Hello all,
I wanted to make everyone aware or least be alert of what can
happen when you get behind brush mowers whether it's up close or at
a distance.
It is very dangerous.
Yesterday, my husband was about 20 feet behind a tractor that had a
brush mower on it which was operated by his friend. My husband was
looking for items that may have been sticking out of the ground
that the mower didn't get.
Anyway, a huge rock flew out from the mower and my husband said he
seen it at the corner of his eye. By then it was too late. The rock
hit him on his right arm below the elbow and broke his arm in two
places. I had to call 911 for help he was bleeding and going into
shock. He was taken to the hospital and had x-rays done on him. The
time was around noontime that this happened.
My Dr. was on call who is a orthopedic surgeon had to do emergency
surgery on him.
I have a lot of faith in him as he done my knee replacements and
other bone surgeries.
One of the bones is shattered in my husband's arm and he said it
look like a gunshot wound. He was taken into surgery about 5 pm was
returned back to his room about 9:15 pm last night.
The Dr. told me he was bad that he could lose his arm especially
below the elbow.
He has muscle and tissue damage. Many fragments of the bone was
floating in his arm.
Did what he could do for him at this point.
Only time will tell.
Since, my husband is a Diabetic and has HEP C from tainted blood in
the 60's from a blood transfusion he is considered high risk. He
has a tube in him that they call a Vacu this is to suck all the
infection and excess blood from the area. He is also on two
different IV lines for the loss of blood and for antibiotics. He is
being monitored closely.
I did noticed his blood pressure was high.
So he will be in the hospital for at least some time.
He will be taken back into surgery tomorrow to check out more of
the damage and try to repair more of his arm.
By the way my husband is right handed this is the arm that got
injured.
Some of you already know he just had two recent right shoulder
surgeries on the same arm. He was supposed to return back to work
for light duty on the 19th of this month.
Believe it or not he was looking forward going back to work after
being off for almost a year.
Now that this has happened I don't know what we are going to do.
Please pray and hope he doesn't lose part of his arm.
That he makes full recovery.
Terrie Mohr-Forker
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