Purrs please

"GraceCat" wrote in message
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A dear family friend was involved in an accident last night about two
am. He fell asleep at the wheel of his truck and hit a tree. He was
thrown out of the truck, through his back glass and into the truck
bed, it's horrible. A few hours ago they were unsure if he'd make it.
His parents understandably are basketcases. He broke his pelvis, has
internal bleeding that won't clot, he severed the main artery (I
think, pretty sure) in his thigh, skinned and ripped muscles and skin
tissue (already several grafts in the unforeseeable future), he was
punctured by debris and they're not sure if this colostomy bag will be
permanent and a family friend (gf's stepfather actually but not family
so I dunno) mentioned they might if they must, amputate the leg. I
dunno on that last.. but it's rough.

He's 22, sweet as pie and cute as hell. I babysat his girlfriend and
his sister is my sister's best friend. Kinda extended family ya know.

Anyway, the local hospital worked for ten hours trying to get the
hemmoraging to stop and they couldn't. So they transported him to New
Orleans, four hours south via ambulance. The weather is so bad they
couldn't use the helicopter that they really needed to use because
it's a long drive. But thankfully the internal bleeding had slowed
somewhat, he's breathing on his own above the respirator (I think
they're removing life support if he continues breathing) but he's not
out of the woods by far and he might make the drive down south. Four
hours ago, a four hour drive was an impossibility because they've been
giving him blood since 3am this morning. As fast as they're pumping it
in, he's losing it. He's still bleeding excessively and the local
hospital doesn't have the technology needed. They finally stopped
surgery around 11, closed him up and said all they could do is place
him in ICU, wait until a larger hospital had space (Shreveport LSU
medical center did not, Tulane at New Orleans did) and hope. I'm not
sure what further resources a different hospital has in way of
hemmoraging but that's the way it's been today.

The doctor said the single most and only reason he's alive and did not
die at the scene was his age and his health. He's very active,
athletic and young. As he put it, a forty year old man would have died
at impact or shortly after.

Matt had been at his girlfriend/intended's house studying because
they're taking a huge amount of difficult classes this semester. I saw
him on the 4th at the coffee shop and they were both hard at it. From
what she's saying, and his family is saying, he has been operating on
little to no sleep for the last several days. He wasn't speeding
(55-65ish) and the stretch of road was just a few minutes from both
mine and his house. A fairly safe stretch. He just dozed off.

We'd appreciate purrs and prayers for everyone.

absolutely - sending lots of purrs.
Brenda

GraceCat wrote:

A dear family friend was involved in an accident last night about two
am.

Healing purrs and meatloaf meditations on the way Grace. I hope your
friend gets the care he needs and recovers quickly.

Julie, Hobbes, Selena and Lacey

How very tragic. Purrs enroute.
--
Britta
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"GraceCat" wrote in message
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A dear family friend was involved in an accident last night about two
am.
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Many strong healing purrs for your friend and his family.
Sam, Smokey, and Mistletoe

"GraceCat" wrote
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We'd appreciate purrs and prayers for everyone.

Many purrs coming over for Matt, his family and friends.

--
Marina, Frank and Nikki
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On 17 Nov 2003 13:50:53 -0800, (GraceCat) wrote:

A dear family friend was involved in an accident last night about two
am. He fell asleep at the wheel of his truck and hit a tree. He was
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I thought about giving you a call Julie. LSU's teaching hospital didn't have
room, they weren't sure about Tulane, they were considering Houston and running
out of options.

I was gonna tap an Emory source and ask what in the hell gives with all of
these hospitals not having room for a critical patient. Do they have that many
requests each day, they can't keep up?

They did have a minor set back earlier. The jet is a special service, commonly
reserved for transporting transplant patients to their new organ or vice versa.
For a four hour trip, it's $4000 up front in hand and on the table before they
would have considered. The family had the money, no problem, it was coming but
it was a needless worry. It wasn't even a delay but the plane opened hope, and
then whoops! sorry, maybe not, we need money first. *That* ****ed all of us
(non immediate family) off and as you can imagine, set off a round of health
care b*tchin'. But it's not truly the hospital's fault there. They contract out
to Acadiana Amubulatory Service, and it was their police regardless if the
hospital could tell them or not what the insurance looked like (good btw) blah
blah blah. The USA'ers knows the drill, general healthcare policy and bs.


Julie, I'm sorry, I rattled on. Purrs for Lacey.

Marina purrs for Nikki.

Hazel, purrs and good luck with the next few weeks.

i haven't read any other posts so prayers for anyone that needs them.

GraceCat wrote:
A dear family friend was involved in an accident last night about two
am. He fell asleep at the wheel of his truck and hit a tree. He was
thrown out of the truck, through his back glass and into the truck
bed, it's horrible. A few hours ago they were unsure if he'd make it.
His parents understandably are basketcases. He broke his pelvis, has
internal bleeding that won't clot, he severed the main artery (I
think, pretty sure) in his thigh, skinned and ripped muscles and skin
tissue (already several grafts in the unforeseeable future), he was
punctured by debris and they're not sure if this colostomy bag will be
permanent and a family friend (gf's stepfather actually but not family
so I dunno) mentioned they might if they must, amputate the leg. I
dunno on that last.. but it's rough.

SNIP sad story
We'd appreciate purrs and prayers for everyone.

Of course, will keep Snoopy purring until he's home.
--
Adrian
54º 10' 59" N 0º 19' 35" W

(GracecatOnl) wrote:

I thought about giving you a call Julie. LSU's teaching hospital didn't have
room, they weren't sure about Tulane, they were considering Houston and running
out of options.

I was gonna tap an Emory source and ask what in the hell gives with all of
these hospitals not having room for a critical patient. Do they have that many
requests each day, they can't keep up?

We're sending purrs here, and hoping that he gets care at the best
available hospital.

That's terrible! And so young! I do hope the bleeding stops.
Lots of purrs and best wishes for him and hugs for the rest of his family
and friends,
--
Polonca & Soncek

"GraceCat" wrote in message
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A dear family friend was involved in an accident last night about two
am. He fell asleep at the wheel of his truck and hit a tree. snip