Second year Day 95 - Monday March 18, 2013

Today started out with Bridgett in even worse pain.  In addition to the muscle relaxer, and instead of the Advil, I started her on the percocet that Michelle prescribed.  The Lortab just makes her too dizzy, so we will try the percocet instead.  Walking up and down the stairs helps relieve her pain (I don't really know why) and she must have gone up and down at least 50 times today.  Some of the times, she and I went really fast up and down.  Sometimes she went really slow with either me or Mark or Tyler.  Sometimes she went by herself.  It was a long morning and afternoon.  In the late afternoon I took her out to jog for 30 minutes; that also helps with the pain.  It used to be, before the accident, whenever she was feeling pain or discomfort, she worked out for pain management.  Sometimes it was jogging/running, sometimes biking, sometimes weights or whatever.  So, this is a pattern that she has had for a long time.  In the early evening I got a call that my brother Chris was at the hospital, in a coma, and not expected to live.  That hit me like a ton of bricks!  Mark was almost home, so he picked me up and we headed to the emergency room, leaving the girls with Tyler.  Luckily, he was home to be there!  Anyway, Chris had apparently not been feeling well, and then just collapsed outside someones house, falling forward on his face.  Julie had someone help turn him over and did chest compressions until the ambulance showed up.  He reached the hospital not breathing and without a heart beat.  They resuscitated him and he is in a medically induced coma.  At this point he is stable and we are at a wait and see point.  Mom and some of my brothers are heading up in the morning.  They were going to drive all night, but were exhausted from work and it would have been dangerous.