Cassidy the story...

You are all so wonderful!! Thank you for all your prayers, concerns, messages, texts and phone calls. We all know how important Cassidy is to you all!!

There has been some miscommunication going on due to Cassidy’s condition. Kinda like when you play telephone in kindergarten. After you say it 100 times, the end result is so NOT what was said in the beginning.

SO, here is the store, from the beginning….

Saturday morning, beautiful girl Cassidy, had attended my sons flag football game, was headed home to take a shower and was so excited to attend the Kenny Chesney concert with her boy Drew. Around 11am, an SUV T-boned her at 38th and 465. He ran and red light, and admitted he was on his cell phone. We have heard he WAS remorseful, even crying. He was giving a breathalyzer and even a blood test I believe, and WAS NOT drunk. We have been told she was unconscious as soon as someone was on the scene.

When she arrived at the hospital, she was given a CAT scan, and everything looked good. A few cuts on her face and head (from the glass) but nothing major. She was then given another CAT scan about 24hours later, due to the concern of her not moving her left side a lot, or when asked by the nurses. It came back just fine. WE believe her left side is just so SORE that she just prefers not to move it.

She is SEDATED to manage her pain, not in a coma. They let the sedation wear off just enough for her to squeeze hands, move her arms, legs, and toes and then they sedate her again. We are STILL concerned about the major concussion she has suffered. We don’t know if she will have memory loss yet.

She is on a breathing machine but not life support. She can breathe on her own with a little help from the machine. They don’t want her to get tired from breathing and her body needs a lot of oxygen to heal. They mention maybe a SMALL infection and she started antibiotics 48 hours ago. If this was a big concern, they would NOT have done surgery.

A full body X-ray showed there was a fracture at the BALL of the femur (where it goes into the hip) and that her pelvis was broke in a few places as well. We had originally thought we where told her pelvis was CRUSHED and later found out this was NOT the case. A few breaks, in my opinion, is better then CRUSHED.

They have reset her leg, attended to the fracture in the ball of the femur and fixed one crack in her pelvis. They are 75% sure she will have to have surgery one more time to fix the other crack in the pelvis. They where unable to do it today in fear it would be too long of a surgery and too much trauma.

We are not sure YET, but we are hoping they will start weaning her off the breathing machine and let her wake up in a few days.

I I know you are ALL waiting to visit her. But I have to be honest; we don’t know WHEN that will be. She has had some MAJOR trauma, and we don’t know WHEN she will be able to come out of sedation, and when she does, we don’t know WHAT kind of condition she will be in. PLEASE be patient, we are doing what is best for Cassidy. Imagine if YOU where in her shoes, wake up and have no idea WHAT happened and are in pain all over! You may NOT want to see LOTS of people right a way. As soon as she is ready, we WILL let you see her, promise.

She has a long road ahead of her. We still believe she won’t be able to even put pressure on her feet for 3 MONTHS. After that, she will be in therapy for a LONG time learning how to walk again. We, the family, and Cassidy will need ALL of you then!! You KNOW that girl can NOT sit that long!! She will need entertained!!

There will be a day when you all will be saying “Man, Cassidy is calling me AGAIN to come watch a Disney movie with her!!!” ….and I know, we all just can’t WAIT for that day to come! =)

Until tomorrow….

Aunt B