So, I just love starting out by saying so…last month Adam had an accident at home that I guess I didn’t blog about, not sure why. 1050lbs (yes, that is 1.0.5.0!!!!) of sheet rock fell on him, pinning his lower body. He was able to reach his cell phone and just started calling people. He called me first~not sure why as my muscles wouldn’t have helped but he did, the sweetheart. I was seeing a patient though so didn’t answer the phone. He called a couple of other people and happened to get a friend of ours to answer the phone who, thank God, was only two blocks away. He came charging into the house and single handedly was able to lift the sheet rock off of Adam…talk about adrenalin. We are amazed to this day. We were so blessed that it didn’t snap his legs, crush his pelvis. All it did is cause a TON of bruising and muscle pain/cramps. His flanks (lower back) were beat up too from where he fell backwards on a table when the sheet rock fell on him. But, in the end he was okay and we thank Him for that!
Fast forward, Kalia could have been killed rather than just the broken bones and lung contusion. We thank Him for that as well.
Fast forward to this past Saturday. Adam went to a wedding a couple of hours away (I wasn’t with him) and when he got to the reception hall he noticed some steam coming from under the hood of his car. His battery exploded into his face. They were 20 minutes from the nearest hospital so they irrigated his face and eyes like crazy there before a couple of friends and a nurse that was there took off with him to the er.
This is the call none of us like to get. “Shana, first…I want you to know that Adam is okay but there was a little accident”. They took him to Grand Island, three hours from me, 30 minutes from my sister so I called her and she went to join him and I took off like a wet diaper!
We. Are. Blessed. Adam has mostly just first degree burns to his face, with only a few small areas that are second degree. We think his left eye was exposed to more acid than the right as it is more painful and he actually has a second degree burn on that eyelid. His eyes, of course, were the area of biggest concern and remain so today.
They irrigated and irrigated again and again and did ph testing on his eyes and let us leave the er late Saturday evening. I was so thankful my sister came~it was great to have her there. After we got Adam settled into the car I stepped behind the car and proceeded to ralph up the two cans of mountain dew I drank on the way there. We’d had a rough couple of days prior to this anyways so I didn’t feel good to begin with and then worrying I guess is what led to that ralphing. At any rate, this proceeded to occur periodically on our way home. We were undoubtedly a sorry site I am sure. Poor Adam couldn’t open his eyes so he was car sick and then there I am swerving to the side of the insterstate at random times to spew, making his stomach even more queasy. But, we made it. We made it home in the middle of the night and boy, was it a sweet sight…for me anyways. =0)
They are swollen shut~we can open them manually, the left one with much pain. He says his right eye is clear and his left eye is blurry. Yesterday morning when we opened them to put the ointment and he saw for the first time his first words were “you’re just as pretty as I remember” (what a schmoozer).
The whites of his eyes are completely red and swollen as well. We are putting an ointment in frequently and he is on oral pain medicine. We are going to a specialist today to see what to do next. I really think he’ll recover fully and am so very thankful for this.
So, once again we thank Him for this.
getting ready to do more irrigating
Irrigating
