3 posts tagged “broken”

David is improving so much! =D
I'm so happy he is recovering so quickly, although full recovery will be a long road at least he's on his way!

look at this blog for pictures of him and where he fell from :/  and updates on his status.

http://david0concrete1.blogspot.com

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Oh goodness, I don't even know where to begin.

maybe here is a good place: http://www.azcentral.com/community/phoenix/articles/0404phx-pvhigh404Z3.html

Anyway, they said that when he fell his brain hit his eye sockets and twisted, which bruised//injured the front left section of his brain and broke some connections. Damage to this area of his brain is not a good thing. It's the area that controls what they call "executive functions." Which includes, decision making and judgment. The area also controls personality traits. So when he recovers, he may never be fully functional again, and he may not be "David" anymore, or ever again. :(
It's so heart-breaking. He has done so much, like football and wrestling every year since middle school, and he plays the piano very well. I can't imagine him not doing those things anymore. Since his judgment may be impaired he may never drive or do many other things like that.
He also has pneumonia in one lung, probably caused by his immune system being down due to his head injury. The doctors said he'll probably experience the most recovery over the next 2 years, but after that he probably won't recover anymore, and he may have recurring infections [more cases of pneumonia] because of it.
He managed not to actually break any bones, probably because he's pretty muscular and that both cushioned and held his bones together, but his body is like a giant bruise. His muscles are bruised, and so is his brain. He's in a medically/chemically induced coma right now. They wake him up every hour to check on him but he usually wakes up frantic and thrashing cause his body is going crazy and so they have to put him back under because they don't want him to move too much and make things worse.
So many people are praying for him and his family. He needs all the help he can get.

Friday at school, for the first time ever, I broke a bone.

My leg? My arm? My...
no.

it was my toe.

ya- who does that?

haha, well I guess I do.
Anyway, here's what happened...
It was third hour and Emiley and I were just leaving the StuGo room to go look at the benches we had put in for the Senior gift. I was walking behind Emiley and for whatever reason, she decided to stop walking. So her heel and my foot collided so hard that my middle toe on my left foot was smashed so hard to the left side that it was practically perpendicular to my "ring" toe [if you will] rather than parallel to them all like it should be. In extreme pain, I put my hands on my knees and then when I looked down I think I had a moment of shock because I just calmly, though in pain, reached down and cracked my toe back to where it should be. I looked up and said "Emiley, you broke my toe."
"What?"
"You broke my toe. My foot smashed into your heel and my toe was all the way over here. I just moved it back." She proceeds to laugh hysterically, not fully believing me, so I too break into laughter, still slightly in shock, not fully understanding the "breaking" idea. We proceeded to walk [Emiley walked, I limped] out the the benches, me still being in a lot of pain. We were waiting for another one of the seniors to come meet us so we could take a picture and I decided I was going to go to the nurse to get some ice. The nurse tells me it probably isn't broken because it isn't bruised or swollen. Little does she know I already re-aligned it myself and that it was still hugging to the left of where it normally sits. She said if it gets worse that night to tape it to the toe next to it to let it heal. So I left limping back to class.
Over the weekend, it has turned black and blue and continued to be swollen. It hurts approximately all the time, and even more so when pressure of just about any measure is applied.
So I broke my first bone ever, and while it may seem minuscule, evidently your toes are quite important. You use them to balance [a lot] and other such things. So even though it's small, it's having some large consequences, ie: causing me to limp around work, home, school, and ever where else, like a retard, lol.
and that's my story for the weekend.
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