Nick Heiner was 4 wheeling on August 14 with elders quorum. He was in an accident, he went over the handle bars of the 4 wheeler and broke his back. He was air lifted to EIRMC. They did a CT scan from the top of his head to the bottom of his pelvis. Things were bad. The Dr. came in and told us he would be a parapalegic for the rest of his life. That was a hard pill to swallow.
The Dr. came in and told us he would need to be air lifted to University of Utah Hospital. Wow Nick's first airplane ride and couldn't even look out the windows. He said it was weird.
We got here to Uof U and they immediately took him in for a MRI of his back, then took him to surgery. He was in surgery for 5 hrs. After surgery he was sent to ICU and has been there for 4 days. Yesterday on 08/17/2010 he had to have a chest tube interted into his chest cavity to drain fluid out of his lungs. They drew out 770 cc's of blood out of his lungs and chest. It was old blood from the injury. He is now breathing lots better.
Today 08/18/2010 he was moved moved out of ICU to the 6th floor. He got the largest room in the whole hospital. It is nice.
He will be here in the hospital for atleast one month.
Thank you for setting this up so that we can keep up with you guys. Our prayers are with you. Wish we were there to spell you a bit so you could have a break. God Bless you and keep you. We love you all and let us know if we can do anything on this end.
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Lynda
Thank you so much. I am going to try to enter a post everyday. We really appreciate everyones prayers. We really can feel them. We see little miracles everyday.
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Donna