This is my best friend, he is like my little brother, one swimming accident and everything has changed. I really don't know where to begin, I have been crying and praying for 30 mins now. He dove into a pool almost 2 weeks ago, hit his head and crushed 3 vertebrea one being C5. He was taken to one hospital and transferred to CMC where the best trauma team is. He had spine surgery last Tuesday and seemed
to be recovering pretty well, a few days later they started keeping him medically sedated as he was getting very aggitated with the tubes and not being able to talk. He developed pneumonia and his lungs had fluid in them last weekend, they started him on medicine and had to revive him with an oxygen bag when they would bathe him. Yesterday,
one of Eric's lungs collapsed, they took him off the ventilator and put a trach in, everything was going well, then his lung collapsed, so the trach came out and he is on an oscalator, his isolator number was 9 and should have been 50, so more meds, they are keeping him medically sedated at this time and numbed his whole body, yes he is
still paralyzed from the shoulders down. Today his kidneys started failing so he is on dialysis. The doctors said he is a fighter and if he was not 23 he would not have made it this far. His family has been there daily for support and his grandparents are holding up very well, they are spending the nights in the waiting room that is
closest to ICU and declined the hospitality room incase they are needed. Eric is a fighter, very strong headed at first he was telling the drs and nurses that he was going to walk again, since his spinal surgery things are different. They are giving him a 25% chance of making it and as long as he is fighting they are going to keep
working on him. He is hooked up to so many machines and I remember when I saw him, I kissed him on the head and told him I loved him and everyone was thinking of him and his family, he winked at me and mouthed "I Love You Too" He also let me know he was not very happy with the tubes in his mouth and chewed on them, when I told him to stop he flared his nostrils at me and I told him to calm down and if
he was calm about things and did not chew they would be out soon, we were in hopes that the tubes would be out in 24-48 hrs at that time, one week later he is doing worse. We will be working on a charity event for him/his family as he will need inhome nursing care when he gets out of the hospital.
