Some of you know about this; some of you don't.
Andy's parents were in a car accident last weekend. They were in southern Manitoba working on the upcoming provincial election and were returning home Saturday night when they were hit by a semi. Andy's mom is okay -- she has a concussion and is pretty sore, but nothing too serious and she came home from the hospital in Morris on Monday.
Andy's dad is another story. He has a severe head injury including, for you medical types, an epidural bleed, multiple small intracerebral bleeds as well as what seems to be a diffuse brain injury. He also has a bad aspiration pneumonia (he vomited shortly after the accident and choked), a fracture of one of his vertebrae (it's a stable fracture, so it will heal on its own and won't cause paralysis or anything like that), as well as a small laceration of his kidney (which is healing up on its own too).
Reg has been unconscious since the accident. He makes some movements of his limbs, trunk and face, but they are more like reflexive movements rather than purposeful ones, so they don't necessarily indicate improvement. He had a feeding tube inserted into his stomach yesterday and they are doing a tracheostomy today (moving the breathing tube so that it goes into the base of his throat rather than into his mouth).
There is no way to know what is going to happen. We don't know if or when Reg is going to wake up, and we don't know what degree of brain damage he might have.
Andy and I have our wedding next month; we haven't decided whether or not we're going to change our plans.
So much uncertainty.
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