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Back in December, a friend of mine was shot in the head. He's a police officer, and his wife and I are close friends as well. He was shot in such a way that the bullet glanced off his skull, but it splintered off into his frontal lobe, which required the doctors to remove a large bit of skull to allow the brain's swelling to go down. His brain is still swelling, now in April.
Anyway, on Sunday, I saw his wife at church, and sat with her, and afterwards, I asked about how he was doing, and she told me that their toddler had slept with them the night before, and she accidentally kicked him in the head, which rendered him unable to walk that morning. He was better in the afternoon, though.
What was really scary though was the other night, I saw all sorts of things on Facebook from both the news and his wife, that he'd been found unresponsive and was rushed to the hospital. It turned out that he'd had a seizure while his wife was out at their son's ballgame. She posted that he is ok, but cannot yet be left alone due the the unexpectedness of the seizures.
This is the first time I've ever had a friend who has been injured so severely; you hear about police officers getting hurt or injured all the time on the news. It's very different when the officer and his family are good friends and church members. Both he and his wife were close with my dad, and were both very supportive of my entire family when we were losing him.
Anyway, on Sunday, I saw his wife at church, and sat with her, and afterwards, I asked about how he was doing, and she told me that their toddler had slept with them the night before, and she accidentally kicked him in the head, which rendered him unable to walk that morning. He was better in the afternoon, though.
What was really scary though was the other night, I saw all sorts of things on Facebook from both the news and his wife, that he'd been found unresponsive and was rushed to the hospital. It turned out that he'd had a seizure while his wife was out at their son's ballgame. She posted that he is ok, but cannot yet be left alone due the the unexpectedness of the seizures.
This is the first time I've ever had a friend who has been injured so severely; you hear about police officers getting hurt or injured all the time on the news. It's very different when the officer and his family are good friends and church members. Both he and his wife were close with my dad, and were both very supportive of my entire family when we were losing him.
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