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EaglesBabe18
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| Henley_Fan wrote: | This is a hell of a way to resurrect this topic, but here goes. Yesterday, my stepdaughter Jenny and her husband and all 3 kids were in a car accident. They were coming back from camping, and everyone was pretty much asleep, except for my son in law JJ who was driving. Lola was trying to get comfortable, and there were bags on the floor in front of her, which JJ reached back between the front seats to move some of them to give her some more foot room. When he did that, he drifted over to the shoulder, and when he corrected to get back onto the road, the right front tire blew, causing the van to roll 3 or 4 times. They were airlifted to the hospital. Jenny has stitches in her head, JJ has staples, Christian and Lola are fine, but poor Paul had to have his left foot amputated. He's in the hospital, obviously, and has a long road to get better, and there's so much crap that he's going to have to get used to. My God. I'm still processing this...  |
 I'm sorry to hear this, Ter. Hope Paul gets better.
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winslowboy
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| Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Henley_Fan wrote: | | This is a hell of a way to resurrect this topic, but here goes. Yesterday, my stepdaughter Jenny and her husband and all 3 kids were in a car accident. They were coming back from camping, and everyone was pretty much asleep, except for my son in law JJ who was driving. Lola was trying to get comfortable, and there were bags on the floor in front of her, which JJ reached back between the front seats to move some of them to give her some more foot room. When he did that, he drifted over to the shoulder, and when he corrected to get back onto the road, the right front tire blew, causing the van to roll 3 or 4 times. They were airlifted to the hospital. Jenny has stitches in her head, JJ has staples, Christian and Lola are fine, but poor Paul had to have his left foot amputated. He's in the hospital, obviously, and has a long road to get better, and there's so much crap that he's going to have to get used to. My God. I'm still processing this... |
Wow very sorry to hear this 
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mewsical
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| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 10:41 am Post subject: |
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| Holy cow, Ter! I just checked in here, and this is dreadful news. I do hope that things are getting better. So sorry to hear about Paul, that's a tough thing to have happened. |
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Henley_Fan
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| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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| mewsical wrote: | | Holy cow, Ter! I just checked in here, and this is dreadful news. I do hope that things are getting better. So sorry to hear about Paul, that's a tough thing to have happened. |
Thanks. He's doing really great! Got the stitches out last week, and started back to school yesterday with everyone else. The doctor wants him to use a wheelchair at school to help protect his foot more, but he uses his crutches everywhere else. He's scary fast on them too.  They are going to start with the ortho people this week I think. They said he'll be able to walk without crutches and wear normal shoes eventually. It could have been so much worse though. Paul has the greatest attitude about it all. He's really amazing.
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EaglesBabe18
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| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Henley_Fan wrote: | | mewsical wrote: | | Holy cow, Ter! I just checked in here, and this is dreadful news. I do hope that things are getting better. So sorry to hear about Paul, that's a tough thing to have happened. |
Thanks. He's doing really great! Got the stitches out last week, and started back to school yesterday with everyone else. The doctor wants him to use a wheelchair at school to help protect his foot more, but he uses his crutches everywhere else. He's scary fast on them too. They are going to start with the ortho people this week I think. They said he'll be able to walk without crutches and wear normal shoes eventually. It could have been so much worse though. Paul has the greatest attitude about it all. He's really amazing. |
Great news. Glad to hear Paul is doing well.
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mewsical
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| Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Henley_Fan wrote: | | mewsical wrote: | | Holy cow, Ter! I just checked in here, and this is dreadful news. I do hope that things are getting better. So sorry to hear about Paul, that's a tough thing to have happened. |
Thanks. He's doing really great! Got the stitches out last week, and started back to school yesterday with everyone else. The doctor wants him to use a wheelchair at school to help protect his foot more, but he uses his crutches everywhere else. He's scary fast on them too. They are going to start with the ortho people this week I think. They said he'll be able to walk without crutches and wear normal shoes eventually. It could have been so much worse though. Paul has the greatest attitude about it all. He's really amazing. |
I haven't seen photos of them lately, but is Paul the older boy or the younger one? |
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| Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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I haven't seen photos of them lately, but is Paul the older boy or the younger one? |
He's the younger one. He just turned 6 in April. Here's a pic from Monday. First day of school pic.
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I tried being good, but I got bored.
I'll have a cafe, mocha, vodka, valium latte to go please.
I'm so busy, I don't know whether I found a rope, or lost my horse.
I have CDO. It's like OCD, but the letters are in order like they should be.
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Henley_Fan
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Got some great news! Paul is starting to walk on his foot, while still using the crutches.  They're going to get him his prosthetic foot some time next week. He looks so happy! He's really coming along. 
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I tried being good, but I got bored.
I'll have a cafe, mocha, vodka, valium latte to go please.
I'm so busy, I don't know whether I found a rope, or lost my horse.
I have CDO. It's like OCD, but the letters are in order like they should be.
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EaglesBabe18
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| Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 4:32 am Post subject: |
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| Henley_Fan wrote: | | Got some great news! Paul is starting to walk on his foot, while still using the crutches. They're going to get him his prosthetic foot some time next week. He looks so happy! He's really coming along. |
That's great news!
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mewsical
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| Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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| You tell him to keep strong. He's absolutely remarkable. |
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Henley_Fan
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| Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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| mewsical wrote: | | You tell him to keep strong. He's absolutely remarkable. |
He really is. Inspirational.
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I tried being good, but I got bored.
I'll have a cafe, mocha, vodka, valium latte to go please.
I'm so busy, I don't know whether I found a rope, or lost my horse.
I have CDO. It's like OCD, but the letters are in order like they should be.
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