Update on Aaron

O.K. - here's the scoop on Aaron... He is just fine, or is going to be anyway! One side of his face is a little bruised up, including a pretty good black eye - his index finger & thumb on his left hand is jammed really bad, swollen and a little bruised - he is, of course, sore from head to toe - his right shoulder is the main problem. He has torn or stretched the ligaments that connect the bone across the top of the shoulder to the shoulder blade in the back, so that bone is "pooching up" across his shoulder and he is in pretty bad pain from that. He is finally where he can get up & down by himself a lot better, but he can't move his arm too much from the elbow up without being in agony. There is nothing they can do for it though - it just has to heal on it's own, and will probably cause him problems from now on. He has had no ill effects from his head being banged around, other than a headache for a while. No dizziness, or anything like that, so that is the main thing we were watching for. No signs or symptoms of internal injury. They thought he had 2 or 3 fractures in his neck, but a Cat Scan showed no fractures. The abnormalities on the X-rays, the Dr. said, could have been scar tissue from an old injury, or could have been something he was born with. WE ARE SO LUCKY AND BLESSED!!!

Here's what he remembers.... He was driving on a newly constructed road with fresh pavement, and shoulders that drop off to nothing, I guess where they dug out to do the new construction. A deer ran out in front of him, and he swerved to miss it. When he did, the right wheels of the truck dropped off the shoulder, and just kind of pulled him into the ditch. At this point, he was trying to slow down and stop. He looked up & saw one of those concrete medians where water drains (those are very common over here in the hills) and decided he was either going to hit the median head-on, or get back on the road, because he couldn't stop in time. When he tried to get back up on the road, as soon as the tires on the driver's side hit the edge of the pavement, he started rolling. He wound up on the oppposite side of the highway after rolling at least twice, if not three times, according to the DPS Officer at the hospital. The next thing he remembers is looking for his cell phone (which he couldn't find), and walking down the highway to get help. A lady picked him up, took him to her mother's house nearby, and they called to ambulance.

It is probably going to be a long recovery time for that shoulder, I think, and until then, his boss (Hamlin Electric) is looking for something he can do one-handed. Hopefully they will find something for him.

Please continue to pray for him for a speedy recovery, but you might send a couple prayers up in Thanks while you're at it. I will probably have pics of the pickup to post on here soon, and we will all see how much worse this could have been. I haven't seen it yet, and from what I hear, don't want too.

Well, thanks for all your love, prayers and support!
We'll keep you updated.
Catherine & Kids