My son was in a motorcycle accident on the 4th of July. He's still in the hospital. Nothing broken, but a lot of road rash. He can't come home due to the amount of open wounds. Goin to need skin grafts. Bad situation. Mother told him she didn't want to get a motorcycle. The dreaded 3am call from the authorities. Life flighted to hospital. He should make a full recovery, but probably will have scars. His face is pretty bad. Check out that chunk of meat missing from his left elbow. They had to change the dressing today which has a vac pump to keep swelling down. Even with morphine brought tears to his eyes. There is like a sponge covering the wound and clear tape over that which makes a tight seal for the vacuum to remove any build up of fluid. Trooper though. Pic was taken 4 hours after life flight. Finding out how good the health insurance is. Over $100k so far in hospital bills. Insurance company says $3,750 in out if pocket costs. One of the benefits of Obama care. He's 20 years old and is still covered by his mom and my insurance. Lucky guy for that! Would hate to see a 20 years old with that kind of debt over his head. He's a good kid. Working 2 jobs and going to school for law inforcement. One job is a private cop for a retail establishment. Arrests shoplifters and detains for police. Just lacks adult experiences. He's sure his Harley has a soul. Lol. 1,200 miles on it and wrecked.

Edited July 8, 201410 yr by joecool911

Be just got home. My wife made him come for some mom time. The areas they took off skin are painful! Pretty nasty. Looks like they went after him with a wood plane and peeled off a layer. He got another 100 Oxy. He took maybe 10 out of the last 100 he got. I thought they were careful with those things. Giving them out like candy in the trauma unit.

One thing he needs to do is take the Oxy regularly. The purpose is not to kill the pain once it starts, but to maintain a level that is tolerable, so tell him to keep popping the pills so the pain stays low.

Otherwise like me when I had shoulder surgery, it will take 3 days to get back in front of the pain!!!