ATV Accident WARNING graphic pics Updated pics

[emvickrey]

I couldn't be a doc or nurse or any medical person. It's necessary to hurt to help and I can't do that. Anything past a splinter is left to a medical specialist. There was a lack of man power to hold my grandson down while they did what they had to do so we took turns helping hold him down. He was heavily medicated and also had the numbing shots to the area but he still fought. He's strong too. He ended up struggling and his IV got pulled out so it has to be redone when the surgeon was done. Grandpa started out with a vomit then after a while got light headed and couldn't stand seeing his little buddy in what appeared to be pain. When in fact he just felt pressure. Then his mother only lasted a few minutes before she had to smoke. So it was my turn and I lasted almost to the end before an anxiety attack got me and I had to sit down or fall down. Grandpa was helping also at the time and had to take over his hands which I had and his legs that he had.

It was rough. I didn't see the big open area when the surgeon cleaned the wound and pulled back the loose skin to show even more. He trimmed the edges and put the skin back in place and started sewing. I only saw a small area that was what we all thought was all there was to it and there was a spot a bit larger than a dollar coin that showed skull.

He is incredibly lucky to just have the injury he has. It could have been much worse.

 

[Chew593]

Thank GOD he's ok. I'm going to show this to my husband who will probibly barf and pass out, but we're motorcycle and off road enthusiests and he can sometimes be a little lax with the helmet rules when on our property. Thank you for posting this. You just never know what can happen, and I want to protect my boys as long as I can.
Secondly, I work at a family resource center near Marysville, CA in one of the most drug infested neighborhoods in the North Valley. I'm a family advocate for First 5 and I'm a facilitator for a Kinship education and support group. There are so many grandparents that have taken on the parenting roll because of the drug epidemic in this country. There may be resources and groups in your area too. Support is so important. Thank you for doing what you do.

 

[emvickrey]

Well DH talked her into letting him come to stay with us till he's healed. Hopefully she don't change her mind. With any luck DCS will do something and take him from her custody and into ours before he heals or she gets him back. With any luck she will enjoy her freedom so much she won't bother with trying to get him back before DCS does something. If they ever do.

 

[emvickrey]

An associate in the office of my grandsons doc came in a little bit ago and let us know they will be taking out the drain tube tomorrow and maybe going home Monday.

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[dinahmoe]

wow!my prayers go out to you and your grandson for a speedy recovery.
my 5 year old has one and he has to wear his full gear everytime.people say"he doesn't need all that .he doesn't go that fast".he is my son and if he rides it he will have it on.he actually thinks that he can't physically ride without it.i bought all this including chest protector for $150.he has a real ATV helmet but it was getting spiderman decals put on so he had on his bike helmet .kids out grow the gear so people are always selling them.he loves it because he thinks he looks cool in it.
maybe ATV gear can be on your gradsons' santa's list.

 

[redhen]

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Good to hear!!

 

[Two Creeks Farm]

Great to hear he is doing well!!

If you can message me your address, I would like to send him some things (a few of our magazines, stickers etc)

 

[emvickrey]

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Grandpa had bought him a go cart a few years ago and also got a motorcycle helmet that matched the go cart and he had to wear it in order to ride his go cart. We have the helmet. They also had helmets where he was but nobody bothered to make them wear it. It's the fault of his mother for not insisting he either wear the gear or not ride. She has the attitude that nothing will happen but it's just because she don't want to be bothered with having to take the time to be a parent. Her boyfriend doesn't ahve the brains of a piss-ant so kids in their care are at risk. When they lived in town the kids ran the streets and where constantly in trouble. When a child has no supervision they get in trouble and he is always getting into things so it only makes sense to keep a close eye and a short chain on him. (just a figure of speech of course)

I'm so glad grandpa talked her into him coming home with us. She really had no choice. He had taken her to the store yesterday and she was looking at the price of cold meds and she wispered to him that they could make $50 by getting it and selling it to somebody she knows that makes Meth. He got all over her and told her that Gavin will go to ur house and if she trys to stop him he will report her. Little does she know, she has been reported already. Thats the kind of stuff he has to live around with her. She was taking out over half of the medicine in his aderall and making meth with it, and she also used the capsules to put it in and sell what she made. So I called his doc and turned her in. She tried to claim that he didn't need such a high dosage thats why she poured half out. She's been doing it for a year now. I told his doc all of that and now she lowered the dosage. I requested she give him something she can't mess with but I don't know if it's available. I also suggested she change his med to something in a pill form instead of capsule. She would still just sell the pills but at least she couldn't use the capsules to put Meth in to sell to others.

I know it's a personal thing to post but maybe if people know what they use to make and distribute meth in they can be aware and watch for signs. I found all this out last month about what she was doing. I have reported it so DCS is aware of it. When we go home we'll take her first and ask fo rhis medicine since we will have him. I'm willing to bet there isn't any. She will accuse somebody of stealing it like she has many times before and I will report her again and call his doc again. He doesn't need or deserve a parent that only has him for the benefits she gets.

On a brighter note: He will be getting his drain tube out today and it's very likely he will go home tomorrow.

He was able to get a shower last night. He couldn't actually wash his hair but could stand under the shower to let the water wash away as much of the dirt and dry blood that was there. His hair felt a bit slimy afterwards but he said it felt sogood he didn't want to get out. I'll be glad when he can apply shampoo to his hair and really wash it. It's kinda stiff now.

Poor fella had to go thru getting another IV last night. His failed and the antibiotics where going into his arm and he was in pain. On top of that he had tape stuck to the hair on his arm and that had to be pulled off too and it took mom and grandpa and a nurse to hold him down. The antibiotics he's on are very hard on veins. He had an IV in each arm but one of them started leaking by fault of dis-functional parts. They removed that one but the one they took out last night had been in since just before he got here. It was the one that they put in after he pulled the first one out struggling during getting sewn back together. He slept well last night and is still asleep. I know he's afraid when they remove the tube it will hurt but he'll feel much better once it's out. The stitches he has are the ones that dissolve so really all that needs to be removed is the staples. I'm sure once they're out he can shampoo his hair. They don't want him to rub his head. I'm guessing between the staples and the fact that the right side of his scalp was detached from is skull. They don't want it pulled away from his skull. If it's healing and re-attaching to his skull and it gets pulled or moved it will detach again and just take healing longer.

He has had me a nervous wreck with his roudy-ness. He will raise his bed then instead of lowering it go get off he wil climb off the end. I've managed to catch him untill last night when he was faster than me. He didn't fall but I about had an anxiety attack. Boys will be boys but if it wasn't for the fact that if he falls it will jar his head. Thats if he don't hit his head on something.

I've added a new pic of after his shower to the first post.

Thank you all for being supportive and all the prayers and well wishes. It has helped us all with his healing and our nerves.

 

[dinahmoe]

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Grandpa had bought him a go cart a few years ago and also got a motorcycle helmet that matched the go cart and he had to wear it in order to ride his go cart. We have the helmet. They also had helmets where he was but nobody bothered to make them wear it. It's the fault of his mother for not insisting he either wear the gear or not ride. She has the attitude that nothing will happen but it's just because she don't want to be bothered with having to take the time to be a parent. Her boyfriend doesn't ahve the brains of a piss-ant so kids in their care are at risk. When they lived in town the kids ran the streets and where constantly in trouble. When a child has no supervision they get in trouble and he is always getting into things so it only makes sense to keep a close eye and a short chain on him. (just a figure of speech of course)

sorry to hear about the "parents"
i am glad you are there for him.when i was 10,my grandmother came and took me home with her(similar situation).no courts,papers, nothing.and because my parents didn't care,they let her do.i am so thankful she did.
your love and attention will help heal him.

 

[emvickrey]

UPDATE!! He got his staples out Monday and is doing well. He bumped his head when he tripped today and pulled about an inch and a half of scab off and it bled a little bit and it scared him silly. He was so afraid he would have to go back and get stapled back toegther. He's fine though but he sure is worried about bumping his head again. I've been a nervous wreck with his rambunctioness (sp?) He is constantly jumping around and running and doing the things that can cause a fall or a bump of the head.

When I got him cleaned up which it really wasn't more than a small run of blood that didn't even drip. and put antibiotic cream on it he went and laid on the couch and stayed there.

I guess he needed a scare to calm his hyper butt down. I was in the duck encousure cleaning out the pond when he came to me scared he done hurt himself again. Thank goodness he didn't, mostly for his sake but for anybody else that would have had to be near me. I had hosed out the sizzle pen and cleaned all the water containers and filled feeders and was standing in the duck pond bailing it out and scrubbing the sides. So I wasn't a pleasant person to have to stand next to. TRUST ME!!

Of course I had to scrub my hands and I wore rubber gloves too when I tended to his boo boo. Can't take any chances thats for sure. He's still on antibiotic twice a day too. The couldn't clean out all the dirt from under his scalp so he has to take antibiotics longer than normal.

There are a few patches of hair that has fallen out but most of it is still there. The only noticable bald spot is just above his ear but his hair grows fast and will cover that up till it has time to grow back out.

He went to stay with his mother the night before he was to get out his staples and her moron of a boyfriend let him ride the 4 wheeler but he insisted he wear his helmet his papaw sent him with to keep there. He should not have had a helmet over those staples but most of all should nave NEVER been on that 4 wheeler. We found out after alot of questioning that the moron was the fault of the accident. He told my grandson that he was a sissy if he didn't go up that hill. He wanted off the 4 wheeler because he was afraid. That moron wouldn't even do it but expected young children to.

He's a 40 year old moron. He also wouldn't ride him back to the house after the accident. He made him ride with the boy that he had the accident with on the same 4 wheeler.

After talking to our grandson and asking questions we got the truth out of him. His mother had a different story. After I confronted her with the truth she hasn't called back. She knows we know she lied and covered for her BF.

Anyway, he's doing well and i'm sure he will calm down his hyperness for fear of having to go back. He didn't think his head was so fragile till he bumped it.