Finally a family again...

We finally got Daddy home today- we are all so thankful that he is well enough to come home! I managed to get the girls together (and get my act together) this morning, and we went to the hospital to see him. He has had so much wonderful support from the fire fighters, they have been faithfully at his side pretty much every moment. I'll let Greg clarify if he wants to, but it sounds like what happened was that he was heading down Bent Mountain going from one station to another for the rest of the shift. He was far enough down to where it goes to just two lanes, and there were two cars coming the other way. The first one was slowing down to turn into their driveway, and the car behind him didn't realize it in time. He tried to stop but obviously wasn't able to in time, and rather than rear-end the guy in front of him, he swerved into the other lane and hit Greg head-on. One of Greg's coworkers was driving further in front of Greg, and he said he saw the Camry stand up on the front end from the impact. The guy in the other car was driving on a suspended license to boot. We are so fortunate that Greg was not hurt any worse, especially with no protection in the car other than a seat belt. It's a terrifying thing to think about what could have been... He did break two ribs high up on the left side from his seatbelt, but his collarbone is intact. He has a nasty bruise/abrasion over the area from the seatbelt. He was dealing with some abdominal pain but sounds like everything has pretty much checked out ok there- he had a "cyst" on his liver but they weren't sure if it was preexisting or not. He had pain in his neck, so they kept the neck brace on him the whole time and did an MRI since the xrays didn't show any fractures. They saw "occult fractures" on the MRI, which apparently they can't really distinguish from bruising, and the two apparently are treated the same anyway. After finding that, they elected to do an MRI of the rest of his spine, and I think all that checked out ok. Other than that, he's just really sore, has some really tight muscles, and some abrasions on one knee and one hand. He's home with a neck brace and a 10 pound lifting limit, and it looks like the biggest challenge, other than trying to get him comfortable at night, will be getting him to let me do things for him! :) Sounds like he will go back in 2 weeks to be reassessed by the trauma team and the neurosurgeons to determine the next course of action.

We are so relieved to have him home again, and can not quite express how very thankful we are to all the fire and rescue workers who have so faithfully stayed with him throughout the ordeal. We are so lucky to have so many people offering help and support. It is truly wonderful and I will never be able to thank everyone enough!