A Sunday ride gone bad...

[Chirpy]

A co-worker of mine, Richard Jones, whom I've known for over 20 years could use a few good words right now...

This Sunday in Fredericksburg he was in a head-on collision with a pickup that crossed the center stripe in a curve. He's been in San Antonio ever since, although if he stabilized he was going to be moved to Ft Worth (home) today so they could beging the surgeries.

His right leg was badly crushed. While not currently in danger of loosing it, how much use he regains is in question. His passenger received a broken ankle, but otherwise is alright.

Richard is really being tested. He lost his wife (unisured) right as the first of three children entered their teens. He added a neice to his flock, and after getting all three girls through college woke his son a few years back to ask him to drive Dad to the hospital - where he had his heart attack. It's just staggering that anyone needs to be tested this way.

He's a gentle giant of a man, and there's no one you'd rather have with you on a project or to watch your back.

At the least, a few words to insure him a brief and complete recovery would be appreciated. Currently it's three to four months before the leg will bear weight - so it's a long road ahead...

Thanks,

Daryl

[ZRX Mitch]

Tell him to keep his chin up. In April I broke my left Tibia in 6 places. They installed a plate and 24 screws and I did therapy. At the end of July, after being on 1 crutch for 2 weeks, the plate broke. The Doc had to remove the plate and screws and I now have a rod down the center of the bone and 4 screws. I'm not using crutches or a cane now, and the leg is getting stronger. The things that they can do to put us back together are pretty amazing.

Your friend will be much better off if he keeps himself busy (mentally), and he needs to do everything the therapist requires. It'll hurt at times but the exercises will help him reach his potential, quicker and less painfully.

[M2]

Daryl

Is he still here in S.A.? Is there anything he needs? I live in S.A., and will gladly help out if I can. Heck, even if it just means stopping by the hospital and shooting the bull with him for a while...it might put him to sleep, but just a friendly face (or mine) might help. Email/PM me and let me know.

Cheers! M2

[dan-o]

Get well soon Richard. Try not to push recovery too hard, you'll be up and about again soon.
Best wishes!

[Tourmeister]

:tab Sorry to hear about the accident. Considering it was head on... well, I think he's a pretty lucky guy! I hope he makes a full recovery. Please keep us posted on his progress.

[TexasTri]

We'll keep him in our thoughts and prayers. He has surely been tested enough.

[Chirpy]

One of the team members actually went to see him. It's a bit worse than he was letting on. Both knees are broken, and there are some head injuries (no real helmet) He's still heavily sedated, so he might not know. Hopefully he'll get to move to Ft. Worth tomorrow.

The doctors say the leg injury will haunt him, but he should eventually be able to walk on it.

I'll admit I'm at a loss as to why he has earned all this. :scratch

[scratch]

...I'll admit I'm at a loss as to why he has earned all this. :scratch

That's the sort of question that can drive you nuts. Doubtful any of us will ever really know why such terrible things happen to good people. At least not in our allotted time here.

Hope your buddy pulls through this O.K.

[radarscratch]

"A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop--a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. He who has ears, let him hear."

The disciples came to him and asked, "Why do you speak to the people in parables?" He replied, "The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him. This is why I speak to them in parables: "Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand. In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: "`You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.

For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.'

But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. For I tell you the truth, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see but did not see it, and
to hear what you hear but did not hear it. "Listen then to what the parable of the sower means:
When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path.

The one who received the seed that fell on rocky places is the man who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. But since he has no root, he lasts only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away. The one who received the seed that fell among the thorns is the man who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke it, making it unfruitful.

But the one who received the seed that fell on good soil is the man who hears the word and understands it. He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown."


-Amen

[Chirpy]

I'm terrible at parables...

Richard has moved to Ft. Worth, but has more pins than a quilting bee. Ironically, he was the only SE in Texas to qualify for President's Club but there's no way he'll be up for it. Sawbones are now saying minimum six months recovery.