A HARD YEAR IN THE WRIGHT FAMILY....
I've been told not to believe Blogs about people who have bad things happen all the time. Well - my blog is true. In the past two years my family has had 2 miscarriages, 5 hospitalizations and one amputation - among loss of job, insurance, move, etc. So my life has been busy.
This blog will be the amputation.
My brother in law lives in a very rural community. Population 100 maybe.. His job is a farm hand and the day before Thanksgiving 2012 - he had an accident. He was helping to remove a pin from the tongue of a large trailer when it slipped and fell on his foot. The foot was smashed - totally. He was life flighted from the Utah/Nevada border -Baker, NV area- to the University of Utah. My family is the area and wanted to help since he had no where to go. Part of his leg was removed, below the knee on Wednesday night, he was sent home on Friday. I think that was too soon but we survived.
As we went through this, I never thought to Blog or log our adventure - which is what it turned out to be. Remember, he lives in the middle of nothing..His wife came in on Thursday and went home on Saturday, after all she has a life. My family became the caretakers (his wife never did come back to help or anything).
We have a two story home with the bedrooms upstairs. We borrowed a bed and created a room for him in the living room until he was able to make the 13 steps up to the guest bedroom. It was a challenge to help him with his meds, showering and general care during the early weeks. I will say it was a biggest challenge to understand and realize the foot was gone. Having someone you love go through this has been a great lesson. I understand more the false pain, the draw on ones heart and the healing process of this type of accident. I am not so afraid of this anymore.
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| This is the trailer that dropped down on Doug's foot. Within one second, his life was changed. |
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| This is the "stump" after one month...my heart felt very heavy many times when I would see it unwrapped. |
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| We were talking to another amputee - his leg was removed because of illness. |
