ATV Accident WARNING graphic pics Updated pics

[dewey]

I'm so very sorry that this happened to your beautiful little grandson and that he's having to go through so much.

Wishing him a full and uneventful recovery. Your poor baby's injuries are just terrible and he could have a long row ahead of him (I so hope not!), yet thankfully

the injuries were not worse.

I scrolled past the first photos as I couldn't bear to look...my petite little 13 year old niece that lived with me most of the time crashed on an atv and the specialists gave her less than a 50/50 chance of living. It shattered the side of her skull, bone fragments in the brain lining, and a brain aneurysm that required emergency surgery on top of everything else. It happened way out, she flipped the atv going full speed and it crashed her into a wall of boulders. A total stranger put her in the bed of his truck and drove her a very long way cross country out to a main dirt road where help could be called, otherwise she would have died waiting the doctors said. He continued driving to meet the ambulance in route to save time since so much time had already passed and it was still 20+ more minutes to the closest hospital. She could have had spinal injuries but they had to take that chance of moving her because of the severe head injury. One of the longest nights of my life and the next 2 weeks at her bedside praying she'd live. As bad as she was injured she was still one of the "lucky" ones...she's ok now.

Your grandson being injured must be tearing your heart out because I know it would be mine. So glad he's going to be ok!

 

[BCBunnies]

We're praying here for him to have the best recovery he can and also hoping this will help him realize to take more precautions and other kids that see this too. My son saw the pics and I warned him that this is something that can happen when you don't listen to your parents and make sure whatever you are doing is as safe as possible. I know we can't prevent kids from all injuries but I hope this will help him be a little more careful and not clumsy like Mommy and rip off part of her knee on a tow hitch while she's moving boxes... twice....

Please keep everyone here updated on his progress and I hope he is able to fight off the infection and not have to deal with skin graphs.

to you and

to your grandson and

to your family to help get through this.

 

[emvickrey]

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I am a professional photographer for the largest atv website on the net, cover national atv racing, shoot for every major manufacture of atv's and just about every atv magazine out there.....I have used your story to try and get more folks to use the helmet no matter what. When the boy heals up, please contact me on here and I will try and run a story on him and his recovery. Please know that he will be recieving a ton of prayers from our community!

Kids and especially parents need to realize that helmets are life savers. If my grandson had one on he would have walked away with no injuries. Thats why I posted this about him, to give a jar to everybody here what can happen if safety isn't first above all. Now instead of enjoying his summer he will be recovering indoors and he's an outdoor lover. He's not happy if he's not muddy and dirty and outside as much as possible. Now he has to stay clean and indoors to avoid infection. We still don't know if he will need any skin graphs. As long as he don't get an infection he's clear but if he does it's a whole other story.

 

[emvickrey]

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His mother was asleep which is her normal state of mind and his father is absent. She usually relies on others to tend to her children which is what she's doing up here in the hospital. Thats why I stayed because I know she will just sleep and expect him to take care of himself. He un-did his IV last night and when I looked up to check on him he had a growing blood stain on his blanket. She wouldn't had waken up till sometimes late morning. The nurse would have discovered it but who knows how long he would have bled before it was found. The reason he had to wait on an ambulance is there was no car at that house at the time. And they live waaaaayyyy out in the country. She didn't even know he was hurt till she was awakened by somebody telling her an ambulance was on the way.

She tried to clean up all the blood before the ambulance got there instead of trying to stop the bleeding. She is one of those parents that should have never became a parent.

 

[emvickrey]

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Down girl! Fear of neck injuries, probably.

Hubby said protocol rules, do not move patient until you get something like the cervical collar for his neck. Mobilizing him can cause injuries, would make him bleed internally. Don't want to take the chance either. When you are way out in the country, at the mercy of bad weather, everything seems like a standstill.

I am sure his parents or whomever was caring for him did the BEST they could. Paramedics/EMT usually took care of the kid first, making sure he is stablized to travel or airflight to another hospital. I know its nerve wracking to the parents and close friends but all in all, he is OK for now until OP gives us more updates.

He was in no pain. He was only aware of the blood and wanted to get back on the 4 wheeler and ride some more. He got up and walked back to the house with alot of insisting by the boy that was with him. He has had very little pain with the exception of the work being done to the injury. The first hospital didn't even put on a color at first.

As far as the "parent" I mentioned her in a previous post. She isn't the most "doting" person. She freaked out and was of no use in helping him. Her boyfriend is the one that called for help. The air evac couldn't come and get him because of the weather. The ambulance was going to take him to the local hospital still a long distance away and turned around and went to a bigger hospital with a heli pad in hopes he would be air lifted to another hospital more able to tend to him. But again the weather stopped the helicopter from leaving. He had to wait for an ambulance to come from the childrens hospital to get him with an RN on board. The hospital he was at shouldn't even be called a hospital. They are terrible there. They should have cleaned out the dirt and mud. It seems that the time line for a safe time is the same for everybody. He was at that hospital during the entire "save time". His mother was too busy staying on the phone outside smoking than making sure her son was being taken care of.

He was in shock but I figure since he felt no pain she thought he could just lay there and wait. The mother is my daughter i'm ashamed to say. I taught her better but she is more worried about soaking up the incident for her own gain for attention.

 

[welasharon]

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Hubby said protocol rules, do not move patient until you get something like the cervical collar for his neck. Mobilizing him can cause injuries, would make him bleed internally. Don't want to take the chance either. When you are way out in the country, at the mercy of bad weather, everything seems like a standstill.

I am sure his parents or whomever was caring for him did the BEST they could. Paramedics/EMT usually took care of the kid first, making sure he is stablized to travel or airflight to another hospital. I know its nerve wracking to the parents and close friends but all in all, he is OK for now until OP gives us more updates.

He was in no pain. He was only aware of the blood and wanted to get back on the 4 wheeler and ride some more. He got up and walked back to the house with alot of insisting by the boy that was with him. He has had very little pain with the exception of the work being done to the injury. The first hospital didn't even put on a color at first.

As far as the "parent" I mentioned her in a previous post. She isn't the most "doting" person. She freaked out and was of no use in helping him. Her boyfriend is the one that called for help. The air evac couldn't come and get him because of the weather. The ambulance was going to take him to the local hospital still a long distance away and turned around and went to a bigger hospital with a heli pad in hopes he would be air lifted to another hospital more able to tend to him. But again the weather stopped the helicopter from leaving. He had to wait for an ambulance to come from the childrens hospital to get him with an RN on board. The hospital he was at shouldn't even be called a hospital. They are terrible there. They should have cleaned out the dirt and mud. It seems that the time line for a safe time is the same for everybody. He was at that hospital during the entire "save time". His mother was too busy staying on the phone outside smoking than making sure her son was being taken care of.

He was in shock but I figure since he felt no pain she thought he could just lay there and wait. The mother is my daughter i'm ashamed to say. I taught her better but she is more worried about soaking up the incident for her own gain for attention.

I am so sorry. It is frustrating to deal with children like that (esp when they are grown) We just had a 13 year old run straight out in front of a truck on a main road. A large portion of her brain was splattered all over. They kept her from dying but she is in a semi coma and does not know anything. Her dad tried to stop her from riding as it had been reported to him how careless and dangerously she was riding...even jumping the highway but her mom and stepdad let her ride their ATV. Under 16, no helmet and no supervision. It is common here and so are the accidents. I hope he does well.

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

Thank your lucky stars and his!

My daughter's classmate at 6 years old was riding an ATV that ran into the back of a parked vehicle. It was a little ATV, but it was motorized and he was too young too handle it.

The ATV went under the vehicle.
His body went under the vehicle.
His head did not.

It snapped his neck at the 3rd vertebrae. He is alive - paralyzed from the neck down with a trach tube, fed through another tube in his stomach.

He's 7 now. He is not getting any better.


BTW he had ADHD. Being paralyzed did not remove his urge to move. He suffers endlessly. His parents are now divorced. His mother's career is over. They are financially ruined.

 

[redhen]

Poor little guy...

I really really hope theres no infection and the graph takes...

 

[terrilhb]

OMG how horrible. I am so glad he is ok. Prayers for everyone involved. Thank God he is going to be ok.

 

[bufforp89]

WOW Prayers that the skin takes and infection does not set in. That is truly horrible!