Update from gofundme...
TODAYby April Schofield, BeneficiaryTuesday 3:30 pm eastern time.
I’m sorry to have kept everyone waiting, but today a lot of decisions have had to be made, and that included us getting a few second opinions.
After speaking with the doctors today we know a few things. His knee is doing great and doing what they want it to. It’s going to be completely non weight baring for a while. His shoulder/clavicle surgery did go well yesterday. He’s in a brace for that now and had a plate and some screws put in.
They’ve done a lot of X-rays on his back at this point. Several times a day in fact. The dr now feels confident to give her opinion on what we should do. So here we go....
Today we were given two options.
1- Go ahead and open him up and fix the areas that need to be fixed. No guessing. End of story.
2- Put him in a couple of back braces that completely keep his torso from moving at all and then wait a week or so to try and give his body a break from surgery but also to see if his body is going to do it’s own thing and try to heal up with those braces holding everything in place for it.
After weighing the pros and cons, and talking to a few others, we have opted for option 2. There are risks that go with having 3 surgeries 3 days in a row. And if we can give his body a chance to heal itself let’s try that. We’ve been assured that being in these braces will keep him from injurying the area more as long as he keeps them on. So if we can’t hurt it, let’s try to not rush to the extremes of surgery.
That brings us to the next decision.
Because of covid there are a lot of rules and procedures in the hospital. That’s understandable. However, that let the dr tell us they if we followed some specific guidelines she feels ok in not holding him there for the week or two, but instead letting him leave the hospital in the morning.
- Wound care is going to be super important.
- James has to adhere to special rules about moving around and even how many times a day for so many minutes (it’s very few) they want him using his walker. (To me this will be the hardest part because he’s hardheaded)
- The dr isn’t willing to release us to travel yet. She wants to release him to come directly to the hotel and stay here through the week. They will be checking in with us and then will give us the ok about traveling home. We feel good about him coming home via a regular flight, but we have to wait to make any of those decisions.
So after discussing it we decided that part was a no brainer. He does not want to stay in that hospital. And we feel confident we will be able to abide by the rules.
We had to have a second dr sign off on the plan. His stipulation was that James had to have the braces fitted on, then X-rays done and then he had to go to 2 rounds of physical therapy that consist of them teaching him to get from the wheel chair to the walker and how to stand in the walker.
The dr reviewed the X-rays and has confirmed that the plan is ok.
So now James will come back to the hotel sometime early tomorrow (I’ve already moved into a handicap room) and we will stay here through the week. After getting home we will follow up with the physicians there and they will decide if his back is healing up correctly or if we have to have surgery.
On another note,
The amount of prayers we have gotten over the last 3 days we could feel it. We are really blessed that things have been good news. Recovery is going to be long. But we feel good about the outcome and are hoping for his body to pull through and not require surgery on his spine! Thank you. And also, the blessings that you all have poured on us with the go fund me , PayPal and Venmo have been huge. I wish I had the words to say because I don’t think thank you really does it justice. The off-road community is a close group and they have been nothing short of amazing. We are so very lucky to have you all.
On the other side of that coin our other friends and family have helped in the same way and we couldn’t be more grateful and humbled.
We truly love you all. I read every message. I tell him everything that’s going on and he’s feeling so many emotions right now.
ALL OF YOU with your prayers, texts, calls, messages, donations and help are really lifting us up through such an unsure time. Quite frankly, even with my upbeat posts, it’s been a scary time. Again, thank you doesn’t do it justice...but I dont have any other words to express our gratitude right now.
I was just more annoyed at the feeds they kept putting up on screen for us free feed folks (maybe premium was better, but it didn't sound like it was by much). They kept talking about stuff that was going on and sometimes show the leaders/something interesting, but then quickly cut away and show footage of people who were sitting in traffic or completely out of contention. It almost felt like they were trying to screw people on the free feed to force you to pay for the premium one
badass comanche and kudos for the reverse moves! It was confusing to watch 
