Ok, so first of all let me say that when motorcyclists say someone "went down" that really doesn't represent what happens.
Steve/Dad/Granddaddy had a motorcycle wreck yesterday afternoon (11/9/2009) somewhere south of Louisville. At approximately 4:00 pm, a deer jumped out and hit his bike.
He was thrown from the motorcycle and landed on his shoulder. His riding friend, Kurt Jacobs called the ambulance and Bonnie and she went to Baptist East Hospital to meet the ambulance.
In the ER, he was dianosed with a broken clavicle, scapula, and four upper ribs. He also had a collapsed lung so they sedated him and put a chest tube in him to release the air from his chest cavity that had escaped the lung. There is small tear in his lung, so the broken rib must have punctured it, and there is some blood in the lung.
These doctors decided that he needed to be transferred to University of Louisville's nationally acclaimed Trauma Center. Bonnie stayed with him all night in the ER where he stayed until about 2:00 pm today due to lack of rooms! At some point they did a CAT scan of the whole body: spine is fine, head and cranium are fine, but the lung collapsed more upon removal of the chest tube to do that. Internal injuries are suspected due to blood in the lung and abdominal enzymes being high, but the CAT scan does not show that kind of injury. Taking enzyme levels again after 24 hours is the next thing they do.
He needs surgery on the broken scapula, but will not be cleared to do that until his lung can stay inflated on its own.
Right now he is in room 735 at University of Louisville Hospital. I'm going with my mom as soon as Bill comes to get the little one.
Elevated enzymes in abdomen right now mean possible internal injuries.
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