down in Tn. with Walker kids. Latest news (6.22.06 Thurs) is that the ambulating kids were going to leave Tn soon.and come home. Lizzy's prognosis is extremely complex. She should not be moved but the hospital is going through the moves to release her. It is looking like the rest of the Walker family (parents and ambulating kids) is going to drive home while Lizzy stays there for a while more and is she is transported separately. Will Ham and Jennifer are to stay with Lizzy to care for her. They got a reading of the MRI of Lizzy with the ortho surgeon on Weds. It is a very complicated deal. Pelvis definitely broke and is now in a 'good' alignment. Extremely delicate and difficult for her to move. Prognosis for recovery is very mixed. They still are looking at her organ function, bowel in particular now. That whole areas was wounded, operated on and things sewn closed. But the conclusion now with the hospital then was that she was to be discharged on Thursday. On Thursday morning they worked with Lizzy to show her how to move. One leg sort of bares weight. The other not at all. Within a few minutes of sitting in a wheelchair she gets sick. They want to discharge her regardless at this point. She is without health insurance so not really welcome beyond emergency need. Strategy on Llizzy's side is to keep her quiet and try to let the bones get going with spinning and knitting their breaks. It may or may not work. When Lizzy is released, Lizzy will be trasnported by ambulance to a local hotel room there for some while. Jennifer and Will Hamilton there are nurses for Lizzy now. Lizzy needs 24/7 care. -Doug Generally, 6.21.06 Weds. pm
Not Easy & Convalescing Thanks for pursuing this. Most of the kids are convalescing there in the area with their various wounds. Sedated, quiet & recovering. It is not simple. One is still in the hospital and will be there in the area possibly for some while longer. The Walkers are hold up around there for a while near the hospitals. Some of the injuries are very complex. The hospitals are stablizing and moving the paitents out, as fast as they can. The kids are sedated and quiet mostly outside the hospitals. Most of the ones released are black and blue in various ways.. The son who broke his arm and shoulder ambulating but is down and out with a lot with pain and pain medication. His is a very complex break and surgery. They are not just 'fine' and coming home quite yet. The system is trying to get them out the door but the prognosis for several of them is very complicated with many different recovery possibilites. The system while patching them up is sending them out the door as fast as it can. The last child to leave hospital is very precarious and they are trying to discharge soon. Like tomorrow. That aspect of the care is extremely sketchy, as they say. Discharged, fragile & to what? What is their thinking? Part of it is that she is uninsured, it is the system. She is an older child just out of school who is not on the family health policy. Uninsured. Hers is the most complex injury. These kind of uninsured kids are not an uncommon occurance in America now. They refer to it as the 'bubble' between family insurance and adult life. I would imagine that it is taking a lot of out-of-pocket money for them all to be there. Heidi works for MUM, which we know what that means as far as means. Sending some support to her by her address in Fairfield is one way of getting her some cash to go on. People here are tending her home matters. US postal mail to her house will get to her. Heidi Walker has gone back to her maiden name. Heidi Salmonson 207 E Broadway Fairfield, Ia. 52556 Thanks for the offers of your help, -Doug <> Hi, 6.18.06 Jennifer just arrived down there (Sunday). I spoke with her and Will Hamilton who is also down there in Tennessee. Timmy, the boy who was driving was out of surgery for puttting his arm and shoulder back together on the weekend. Multiple breaks put back together with pins and such. Rose with cracks in her pelvis and tailbone is released from hospital and walking painfully with a walker. Danny the boy with downs had a punctured lung originally and has now been released to the family. Elizabeth, Lizzy had multiple breaks in her pelvis, protruding bones, internal bleeding. That was worked on right away with a day of surgery. She is alert and awake now. Possibly/probably they will have to do more to piece her pelvis back together. They are waiting to see how the wounds seal over and also see her internal organ functions. The others in the car were bruised, banged and cut with flying glass etc. A lot of their cuts were stapled together in emergency room and they are since released. There was a girlfriend also in the car. She was banged up but released quickly. The Walker parents are both there on it and attending to the kids. They have some rooms in a nearby hotel. Their kids who have been released are with them. Sounds like the kids are sedated for pain and everyone is getting their first nights of sleep since it happened. William Hamilton was not in the wreck but went down there right away after the wreck escorting the Walker mom, Heidi. They arrived there at 7:30am that morning after the wreck. It evidently was a SUV type of wreck. The kid driving swerved at 70 mph and the vehicle started rolling. Three were ejected. Airbags evidently held some of them in. Amazingly, no fatality, no spinal injury or brain injury in the bunch. Jennifer Hamilton along with Elsie Smith and her daughter Happy have driven Heidi Walker's car down there having left Farifield this weekend. Jennifer as an RN, Will as a paramedic and Elsie with supplies of herbs, remidies, and good food will cover with this extra help. Many people sent things along with the car. Happy is a good friend of the Walker kids. The care at Vanderbuilt has been superb, top-flight. Jennifer and Will as medical people are impressed thus far. At least three of the kids are going to take a long time to re-cover. I would suspect that the Walker family, Heidi in particular will need some cash to live down there for a while. With Kind Regards, -Doug ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. 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