This place looks vaguely familiar. I’m sitting in the cafe at Akron General Medical Center waiting to be notified that Brian is out of surgery. I’m going to make this quick because it will be my luck that the surgeon will page me while I’m doing this (and the pager just went off. Back soon).
Long story short. Brian had a tree accident on Monday. He was cutting down a tree for a friend and after he took the top off of it, it sort of peeled like a banana. The bark peeled away from the tree and came down on his right arm which was hooked in a V of the tree. It basically crushed it without actually breaking a bone (soft tissue damage). Unfortunately, he was trapped that way for about 5 minutes. He tried cutting the bark and tree with his chain saw but it ran out of gas in the middle (Murphey’s Law much?) So then he got out his pocket knife and hacked away at the bark until he could free his arm. In the meantime he had Bug call 911 because he was afraid that if he couldn’t get free he would lose his arm. An ambulance showed up and took him to the closest hospital ER (Community Health Partners – YOU SUCK!)
Yes, both Bug and Shorty were with him. He refused to leave the boys behind so they got their first ever (and hopefully last ever) ambulance ride.
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