Son in terrible accident need healing & strange reality while at the hosp.

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Sat Jun-19-10 05:44 PM
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Son in terrible accident need healing & strange reality while at the hosp.

Hi all, my 18 year old son was in a terrible bicycle accident yesterday afternoon. He was going off the sidewalk and his front wheel came off and he hit the pavement with his face. He was unconscious for a bit so he was taken to the large trauma center near us. He's in pretty bad shape but will recover in time. His bottom lip was torn from his jaw, teeth broken and pushed back, broken nose, fractured face, bit through his tongue twice and had may have nerve damage in both hands which he cannot use. He just graduated from HS last weekend and he's such a wonderful kid. I'd really appreciate any light and healing energy you can send his way. The doctors are especially worried about the lacerations in his mouth becoming infected. Thank you all in advance.

We were there from 3pm yesterday until 4am this morning. It was the strangest experience. Yes it was traumatic for us, but it waws beyond that. It seemed as if we were watching some sort of twisted experience in some sort of weird movie. There were a few doctor's and nurses that seemed "normal" and awake, but most everyone that was there seemed to be in some sort of different reality. Like common sense, or what appeared to be common sense to US did not exist. Both my husband and myself noticed this. This is a well known trauma center in a LARGE city. They did not clean my son up for 6 hours, and he was covered in blood. We had to keep asking for things that seemed to be a no brainer. Then someone who came in that had a scrape had one doctor and nurse after the other checking on them while my son lay crying in agony. At first I thought maybe it was just us, you know, concerned parents feeling like they aren't getting enough care. But it was way more than that. It was like no one had any routine or process in which they did things. They wheeled him back and forth to xray 6 times, and he was in agony just riding on the gurney. Every now and then, someone "awake" would get on someone else about how they were doing something or NOT doing something, like cleaning my son up. The entire 12 hours were there was like this.

To top it off they sent him home, which I know is common, even though he shouldn't have been sent home, but the icing on the cake was they made him get up, get in a wheelchair and then I had to wheel him out and wait for my husband to go get the car. No help, no orderly or whoever it is that usually helps you...nothing. Then you just put your wheelchair in a stand, like you see for shopping carts at a grocery store. There's more but too much to mention. I khow it may sound like this was overly upset parents being picky about their severely injured son's medical care. But it truly was way more than that. It was a feeling while we were there that we were not really there, not in the same place as these other people with only a few every now and then popping in "awake". There were so many people just laying on gurneys in the hall, which I know can be a common site in a busy ER, but that's just it, these people were NOT busy. It was like they didn't even SEE the people on the gurneys!

All day yesterday before this happened I kept commenting to my friend I was with that something seemed "off", people seemed weird, like robots or something....could our realities really be splitting, or could it be that they've already split and we're just now starting to take notice?? I don't know, but the entire thing was a very, very strange experience all around.