Tuesday, February 20, 2007
11 MONTHS ON AND THE SUDDEN REALITY OF ROAD TRAUMA............
Bizarre how lives are connected.
As we were being told by the neighbour at 4:30 on Sunday morning that the police she had rung could not attend due to a car smash, one of the girls from the shop 4 houses away was being cut out of that very car and transported to the trauma centre at Royal Melbourne Hospital.
Sunday was my 11 month milestone since the smash with the truck and whilst I was enjoying my new found mobility and generally having a good time, she was just starting her healing road.
I only found out about her today when the shop owner told me.
It sounds as if she has sustained a head injury, as well as loss of sensation and compartment syndrome, which at one point was heading towards a leg amputation.
I believe she has had a fasciotomy, much like mine, performed on that leg and hopefully will be able to avoid the amputation.
I'm hoping to see her tomorrow.
It won't be the first time I'll be visiting someone in trauma / intensive care ward and I think the time I visited David, who went on to become a good friend, has gone a long way to prepare me for this sort of thing.
It's really hard to know what to say to someone in that situation, even having experienced similar trauma myself, but if it helps that person in only a small way to begin to cope with the sudden change to their life / state of being and the completely foreign path they are forced to tread, then it can only be a good a thing.
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As we were being told by the neighbour at 4:30 on Sunday morning that the police she had rung could not attend due to a car smash, one of the girls from the shop 4 houses away was being cut out of that very car and transported to the trauma centre at Royal Melbourne Hospital.
Sunday was my 11 month milestone since the smash with the truck and whilst I was enjoying my new found mobility and generally having a good time, she was just starting her healing road.
I only found out about her today when the shop owner told me.
It sounds as if she has sustained a head injury, as well as loss of sensation and compartment syndrome, which at one point was heading towards a leg amputation.
I believe she has had a fasciotomy, much like mine, performed on that leg and hopefully will be able to avoid the amputation.
I'm hoping to see her tomorrow.
It won't be the first time I'll be visiting someone in trauma / intensive care ward and I think the time I visited David, who went on to become a good friend, has gone a long way to prepare me for this sort of thing.
It's really hard to know what to say to someone in that situation, even having experienced similar trauma myself, but if it helps that person in only a small way to begin to cope with the sudden change to their life / state of being and the completely foreign path they are forced to tread, then it can only be a good a thing.
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