Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Ok so now i want to put Brendon back in his shell!

We had a little bit of excitement this Memorial Day weekend. We went camping like usual. We can't go camping without our 4wheeler though. Adam also traded some stuff for another 4wheeler. So we took 2 of them. The boys pretty much hogged them the whole weekend. (which is what we brought them for.) :)
Well after 2 days of riding and getting used to the new bike, the boys were getting pretty comfortable with the bikes. I was sitting at the campfire enjoying the outdoors when i heard a sound i didn't particularly want to hear. That sound was metal hitting metal and screaming.
Everything from this point on was pure craziness. I started running for the road cuz i knew that some had crashed and i was praying that it wasn't into a car that they met on the road. When i got out to the road i saw Brendon's 4-wheeler in the trees upside down and my sister holding Brendon in her arms on the side of the road. My heart immediately plunged into my stomach.
I could hear Brendon crying and yelling "my back, my back". Just as i was about to call 911 a car stopped on the road and it just happened to be two EMT's. (one of the many blessings that happened this day) They immediately took over. I called 911 and they sent an ambulance and put life flight on standby.
So what happened was Tanner and my nephew Joey were riding the other ATV and when Brendon passed them they slowed down to pull in behind him but Brendon slowed down also and they clipped his back tire with their front tire. Which caused Brendon to spin out. When his ATV turned sideways it flipped sending him airborne. He flew 25 feet and hit the gravel road and bounced off the road down into a grassy area. His ATV flipped 3 times and landed 145 feet from the initial accident. Brendon's helmet and shoes flew off during all of this. (weird)
Brendon was so lucky in a ton of ways. First he didn't hit any objects, like the 2 tree stumps and boulders 5 feet from where he landed. Two EMT just happened to come around the corner 30 seconds after his accident. His ATV didn't chase him while flipping and land on him. And he came out of all of this with a small fracture in his wrist and a few scrapes that didn't even bleed, a sore knee and a sore back. We spent 5 hours in the ER getting xrays of his wrist and back and a CAT scan of his back. When we were done in the ER we went back to finish our weekend of camping like any good camper would do. Brendon even asked for a 4 wheeler ride from his dad the next day!
So like the title says i would like Brendon to return to his shell and stay there where it is safe!!!

1 comment:

jamie said...

holy cow! brush with death!!! SO glad that he's okay and that you were self-respecting campers and finished out the weekend properly! talk to you tomorrow.