Hard Times

The last wo days have been very hard. One of my good friends was hurt at work (oil field) very seriously. I got a call around noon on Monday from my friends’ twins’ girlfried (that im also friends with, if thats not confusing).
She told me that her and his brother were on there way to wichita and that all they knew was that he had gotten hurt real bad, possibly run over by the truck. The truck is a huge great big truck that weighs tons and carries machinery. They were only getting bits and peices of the story, but they heard he had broken legs, pelvis, groin, and major internal bleeding. They were trying to get him stable enough to airlift him to a wichita hospital. Hours later they finally got him stable and were able to fly him here and get him into surgery. Hours went by, I was so scared. I felt so helpless. Ive never experienced anything bad like this. I was fine and then Id cry and then Id be fine, etc.
I took pizza to the hospital that evening for his family, and so many of our friends had driven 2 hours to wichita to just be here for him. That day they took his leg up to his knee, they had given him 3 blood tranfusions, thats how much blood he lost. Two days have passed, there has been more bad news and unfortuantly probably will continue to be. But I am just thanking god he is alive. The doctors said he will prob have surgery everyday for two weeks if not twice a day. Today they had to take more of his leg, up to the ball of his hip and he will have to wear a colostomy bag permanently attached. His pelvic is completely shattered, the right side is literally sitting above the other side. That is going to take many surgeries. There is so much to worry about. But he has good friends and we are all here for him and praying for him constantly.
You never think things can happen to you or someone you know, and then they do, and it jolts you into the reality that….. well that your not untouchable, that bad things can happen to anybody,anywhere, anytime.
He is only 25 years old. I am praying that he will be able to handle all of this. He hasnt even woken up. They will not let him wake up, it would be far to much.

XoXo
Deja