Daniel's Accident

Sunday morning I went to work, I got home about 10 o'clock. Grandma had changed her mind about staying till Monday and was ready to go home. The girls were planning on going fishing with my Dad on his boat so Daniel and I thought, "if we asked Kathy/Robert to watch the boy's we could go riding by our self's". Good idea, I dropped off the boys at there house in Oroville at 2:15, I drove over to the Clay Pit's were I was meeting Daniel. He had already been riding for a little while by the time I got there. I get all my stuff on including my new iPOD under my helmet, can't wait to try it out, however I was a little annoyed that I can't hear anything going on around me. Ricky pulls up shortly before we go out for a cruise. So we take off together, after a few minutes of riding I tell Daniel I want to take a movie of him for the blog. So he drove over to a straight away and said to film him coming towards me, OK doesn't sound REALLY CRAZY. So I stop riding and pull the camera out, I wave to start riding towards me, he really is going fast by the time he gets to me, probably about 50 mph, he ran though all of his gears. As he passes I follow him for a couple seconds with the camera, and then turn back around. I start looking around trying to see where he went and I can't find him nor can I her his bike (which is crazy loud). Then I see these two kids pointing down in a ditch by were I saw Daniel last and then they start waving me over, I just stare in disbelief. OMG, you know that feeling when you instantly feel sick because you know something is wrong, it hit my like a ton of bricks. I ride over there hop off the my quad and look down about 10 feet, and there lays my hubby. I can see the fear in his eyes and concern in his face looking up at me. I turn to the kid and ask him if he can ride back and tell the guy in the silver ford that Daniel had an accident and he needs to bring the truck out here to get him, seconds later he was gone. I slide down the side of this ditch and look at him, I don't know who is more scared me or him. For the most part I have been very sheltered of tragedy and especially with the people I love and care about. I am in total shock, all I kept thinking is I have no idea of what to do in an emergency, how will I know if he is really hurt. By this time a couple of other riders stopped to see what was going on and asked if I wanted any help and I said "I have no idea of what I am doing can you please come and help" and they did. The kids that saw Daniel wreck had came back to the crash after trying to find Ricky and said they couldn't find a silver truck but there mom who is a EMT is coming out with her truck. While we are waiting Daniel is gasping for air and complaining that he can't breath and wants to take his helmet off. I was really nervous to do that just in case something was wrong with his neck, but the man helping said if he can't breathe take it off. I took if off and saw his sad scared face even clearer, I laid his head on my lap, he looked up and said to me, "I'm so sorry Baby". What is he sorry about, long story short is we have no insurance right now and I have been worrying him and he knows now he should have listened. Finally the EMT gets there, the men helping me get Daniel up, he was in incredible pain, and everyone there is for sure that he broke some ribs. We get to the lady's truck and she asked if we wanted an ambulance to come out, Daniel says yes and I say a BIG NO!! You don't die of broken bones, I will drive him to the hospital myself. I ask those kids if they can ride the quad back to the truck for me and they said they could, so I get back on my quad and start to ride back. I notice that she stops so I pull next to her and she says that she can't go any further, it is a liability, OMG you have to be kidding. We are in all terrain, it takes a LONG time to get trucks out here and of course we are in the far corner. As we are riding back I am so scared to ride I almost don't want to, but Daniel needed help so I had too. All of a sudden I come up on a huge puddle/stream, I don't want to cross so I turn around and my quad stops. The kids stop to ask what is wrong I say I must be out of gas, I have never had this happen. While I am standing there in disbelief that this this happening I asked the other kid to go over to that hummer, it is Daniel's friend Bill that we were meeting and tell him Daniel had an accident. As I am standing there waiting, Bill gets in Daniel's truck and drives out to get him. The other kid comes back with gas, he pulls the top off and says your tank is full, it is, I don't know what is wrong, I am new at this and totally in shock, please help. So I still don't know why but they got it started just fine. They lead me around the puddle and I raced to my phone to call Ricky to have him come back out and take care of the truck and the quads. By the time Daniel finally gets there Robert and Ricky show up. Bill helps Daniel get out of the back seat of the truck and he slides into the van. Ricky stays to put quads on truck and drive the truck back to house, Robert leads me to the hospital. On the way there I ask what happened and Daniel explains," I was trying to show off for the camera, I went though all my gears, I came up on that little hill and realized that there was a large ditch, I tired to lock up all my brakes but couldn't stop in time, so I let go of the bike while I was falling". The kid that saw him said he fell in a u shape with his arms and legs kinda out and fell on his back. By talking with him I can hear how disappointed in himself he is, and how sorry he is that he didn't listen to me. We arrive at the hospital, Robert helps me get him inside. They do some cat scans and find number 5 and 6 ribs are broken and a disc in his back is cracked. As of now he is still in hospital, I am about to crazy thinking of the bill. I will be taking him home today whether they think so or not.

This video shows his break lights and seconds after that is when he crashed. You know after you do something really dumb you say "well if I would have just", well if he would have just went the other way nothing would have happen, but he didn't, darn. I am just glad that he didn't stay on the bike, he would have slammed into the wall and I think things would have been a lot worse. The picture of his back it is hard to tell but towards the middle of his back you can see the ribs protruding out a little. I just thank God he is alive and will be able to heal so I can beat the *#!* out of him once he gets better. I no longer want to ride and I will not allow girls to anymore, Daniel understands. I do believe that the quads will be getting a new owner once we get the pinks in the mail, this is not the time in our lives when we can have these types of things happen.