My son's motorcycle accident
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enchilada_style
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Thank you for sharing. I'm happy things ended up working out well for your son.
I've never struggled with any blood or open body issues and obviously seen a lot of that in the past, but it was difficult looking at these photos initially because it was him. After a few days when I could only see his finger tips in the splint, I had to look at the photos and it was really hard. Now it doesn't bother me as much because I know the outcome. But him being alone when this happened was really hard on my wife, especially as he tried to flag down three different people who didn't stop (it was on a relatively quiet residential road). I can't imagine the amount of pain that he felt, and the fact that his hand was stuck in it and he didn't have any way of getting it out besides rolling the bike backwards.
I'm ok with it in person, been involved in hundreds of trauma calls but for whatever reason hearing people talk about it and sometimes photos, just don't wanna look. I can imagine, thinking of a young kid in that situation, on top of that, nobody helping, especially as a parent would be very upsetting. Glad his had a good outcome tho, is he still doing rehab for it?
I can't say he ever really did rehab for it. The first appointment was up in Salt Lake, which is like a 35 minute drive from where we're at, and since he was being seen (initially) every week by the surgeon, the appointments were kept up there until he had weeks that he wasn't seen by the surgeon. He was supposed to be doing therapy at a place somewhat closer (20-25 minutes or so) but had a bad experience there (therapist was too aggressive and physical with him, not understanding the severity of the actual trauma), so my wife just had him keep going up to the SLC therapist, but less frequently. He never really did much of the assignments they gave him and we'd always have to yell at him. It frustrated my wife because the therapist always thought he was doing great and making good progress (he was) and assumed that he had been working with stuff and my wife kept wanting to throw him under the bus about it, but he did remain fairly active in doing other things that rehabbed it without it being "official." He's been working on his bike recently and got it back up and running (he tore a lot of stuff apart and repaired it since the accident) and just a few days ago rode it again for the first time. His plan was to fix it up and sell it and buy a bigger bike. Apparently one of his friends wanted it so that same day he got it running he also ended up selling it.