Feb 28, 2013 15:55
Most remember a few months back that we had found out my mother had cancer. She had been going to chemist. Recently that doesn't seem to be working. She had gone down to her cancer vented Tuesday to find out what was going on and to have a port tube placed at her stomach.
On their way back home they were in a car accident. A young man hydroplaned out of control and into their lane. My father tried to swerve out of the way but could not fully do do so. He reduced the accident from being a full head on to more of a front driver aids corner wreck. Doing this may have saved their lives.
My mother suffered some scrapes and bruising. Broke her left hand and has a compound fracture on one of her lower vertabre. She had already been weak from her cancer coming back with avengence. So it's a bit hard on her.
My father is a bit worse off since the impact was more on his side. He is suffering from a broken ankle of which he had surgery in this morning. He has a fractured vertabre not fully sure about his ribs but a broken sternum and pelvis. He was also cut up pretty bad. Stitched up left knee and heel.
This all happened Tuesday night. The hospital close to where we live does not have the equipment for dealing with such things. So shortly after they arrived at the hospital dad was transported to one that could 2 hours away. The weather was still bad so it had to be done by EMT vehicle. They were still doing tests on mom and waiting for results before deciding to transport her as well. So from the accident time of around 8pm to when mom arrived at the third hospital for her was 4am. When my sisters arrived as well they found out my father had already been in and out of surgery for internal bleeding.
Andre myself and Aden drove up after collecting things Wednesday. As it looks my father will be here for a while. Mom it depends on when she feels up to try moving. So we are unsure of when we will be going home.