Bad news. So final preparations for the trip down the coast. We are at Carters house doing a final check on all our gear when from the other room, I hear Dave quite calmly proclaim that he needs to go to the hospital, with no hardcore ugency in his voice i thought it was joke till i walked in and saw this:
minus the paramedic...the night progessed to this:
THen to this after an hour of sewing up arteries and cleaning it...
So, sadly i will be riding for the most part by myself. Dave goes in for surgery to fix the tendons that were cut(x2) on wednesday. I will leave on friday a little ways down the coast.
So Dave was cutting open a box with our brand new pump insided when the knife which was much sharper than he had expected slipped and lodged itself into is hand cutting through two tendons and one artery. It was pretty epic (we had to clean blood off of the ceiling!) when it happened though, just getting done with the MCAT he was giving us very specific instructions on what we needed to do when he passed out, which he did, and also what we needed to do when he woke up again(which he also did.) Paramedics came a little after he woke up and took it from there. crazy. no lost fingers which is good!
Pretty epic first update i'd say.
4 comments:
That's pretty meaty... what did he get cut with?
that is a pretty epic start to your trip. I'm getting a feeling that summertime is bad news for your friends' appendages...
Dave is the hero of this land
Get well soon Dave! That is seriously a lot of blood.
I love the depiction of how Dave remained calm and gave you medical instructions...I think that just epitomizes why he will make a fantastic doctor.
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