kade's wreck

So we had quite a Saturday last weekend.  With a very normal day of me mowing the lawn and running and Kade working half day then going dirt bike riding.  At around 4:30 I got a call from Kade's brother, Ryan, from Kade's phone.  I thought it was Kade calling and thought he was letting me know he was on his way home.  Instead I got Ryan telling me that Kade had wrecked his dirt bike and was being put in an ambulance.  At first I wasn't sure if he was serious.  He said he was dead serious.  So I asked if he was OK.  All the information I got was that Kade was breathing and moving his arms and legs.

 I tried to calm myself down before going to the emergency room.  I found Kade's insurance information and drove to the ER.  Because it's just down the road I got there before Kade or anyone else.  I had to sit a little while by myself.  Kade's sister Jennie showed up, then his mom and dad.  Eventually Kade showed up in the ambulance.  I could see the paramedics rolling him in.  It was really hard to see him strapped down with a neck brace.  They let me go in after a little while.  It was even harder to see him up close and in pain.  He kept saying sorry to me and when the nurses asked how he was doing he would just say he was tired and his back hurt.  They had him on some drugs for the pain that was making him really tired and out of it.  They scanned his chest then sent him to get a CT scan to see what was wrong with his back.  I went out to tell his family how he was doing.

While we were waiting Ryan told us what happened.  They had went riding and saw that the track was open.  The track was completely different so they took a slow lap around to get used to it.  When Ryan was riding his third lap he looked back and didn't see or hear Kade.  He rode around and found Kade sprawled out far away from his bike.  He didn't see what had happened.  He said he was unconscious but moaning and he couldn't wake him so he rode around to the car to get his phone to call 911.  When he went back to Kade he was kind of waking up but still moaning.  When he got back from the CT his dad and Ryan went in to give him a blessing.

When the results for the CT scan came back the doctor told us that he had cracked 2 of his vertebrae but it wasn't that serious and he could go home.  The doctor said Kade was really lucky and that his neck brace really did its job.  It was pretty hard for Kade to make it to the car and then to his bed, but once he got there he fell right to sleep and slept all night.  Before we left the ER they gave us a bottle of pain drugs and some for nausea.  He took some pain killers before falling asleep and in the morning, but it was making him feel crappy so he started taking ibuprofen instead.  He was pretty loopy the first few days from the concussion and his back was pretty sore.  But he's getting better everyday.  He started going to the farm in less than a week and was working in a week.  Now its been 3 weeks and he is doing really good.  He still can't remember what happened.  It's still a mystery.  His back gets sore after a day of work.  I'm so grateful that he is doing so good.  It's a miracle how well he is doing after such a hard crash.  He was definitely being watched over.

these are old pictures of Kade riding..