Emailed Jill this AM and recieved the following response. She asked me to share it with you folks.
Hi Mike. Great to hear from you. Please share with the rest of the
guys:
Andy has been moved to acute rehab and will stay here for as long as
the insurance pays the $1000/day. It's still at the hospital where I
work, so very convenient. I'm living in his room, just taking 12hrs out
to go to work now and again.
He is able to get out of bed with the assistance of a physical
therapist and a back brace, into a wheelchair. No attempts at walking yet
since he cannot bear any weight at all on his right leg. Occupational
therapy are working on his arms, and creating all kind of weird and
wonderful devices to assist in feeding, personal care etc.
We've hired a personal injury attorney and it's a relief to turn over
all the stuff to him. He will be paid handsomely at the end of this, so
he's doing the work.
To complicate matters, some moron rammed his car into Andy's truck last
week. Our son is using the F150 and had it parked in the usual place
at home. A neighbor fell asleep driving home and managed to t-bone the
truck on a straight street (?????) The report said NINE points of
impact but that includes where the truck was pushed onto the sidewalk. The
damage is in the ballpark $7-8K so you know what that means for a six
year old truck. The guy has wrecked two cars in previous sleeping
events. His license was suspended for the last one.
Today's a kinda sad day, since right now, this minute, we should have
been out on the track learning precision cornering at the Streetmasters'
workshop, with RogDeb and other friends.
I'm going home today, for the first night in my own bed since the
accident and then I'm going to fire up the bike tomorrow. There's a gentle,
local breakfast putter that should be good for rebuilding my very shaky
confidence.
Jill
