
Help Our Family Recover from Tragic Accident
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On January 17, around 8:30 in the morning, our lives changed. As many of you know the story, I will share some details now.
It was Friday morning, we started our day out like we normally do, we were at work. I was just finishing up at the donut shop, and my son was calling me. I answered the phone. MOM! Dad just fell off the dock. At first I was like.... No, he didn't! Yes, they are pulling him out now. It was low tide, and a boat was right under the dock where he was. He got on the wrong side of the hoist bar, and between that and a tote full of ice. The tote started falling, the hoist bar came up behind and him, and shoved him over the edge of the dock. During this time, his foot got shoved under a piling as he went over, and his right leg broke, the tibia was in three pieces which caused floating bones in his leg, the fibia was broke as well. He fell 15ft, onto the boat, rolled into the water, and started sinking. When he hit the boat, the tibia in the left leg broke, he hit on his right side, which caused his clavicle to become displaced, and his shoulder blade to break. He rolled off the boat, into the water, he had the right mind set to kick off his xtra-tuff rubber boots, he was sinking. With a broken leg, and a broken shoulder, he managed to get himself up to the surface where he was grabbed by 2 of his co-workers and the captain from the boat. They got him out of the water in under a minute. My husband almost died!!.... Thank God for quick thinkers and the stuff he managed to do, that he's still here, broken, but here. He spent the last 16 days in a trauma unit in Tacoma, and was able to come home last night and continue his healing process. Thank you all for the prayers and continued prayers through this time.
Organizer
Tim Howard
Organizer
Westport, WA