See how cool you are? My man! It’s all Pura and I have been talking about lately—“Chad.” Brother, he shouldn’t have survived that. I have spoken to him a few times now, this morning I would’ve told you “I talked to him last night and he was in surprisingly great spirits.” Today I’ll tell you I spoke with him a few hours ago and that wasn’t the case at all. It’s going to be a long road.
Before I forget, thank you so much for being cool and being concerned, @thebigsweed.
He’s being transferred to one of, if not the best, treatment facilities in all of California. He’s in great hands there, they’re world renowned for situations as drastic as this—learning to live with one arm, one eye, etc crazy! It’s called Loma Linda University, you only go there for two reasons—you’re in horrific shape and you require the best help.
I updated the article, I made a mistake about the chipper he got tangled up with. Dude, he got tangled up in a Peterson BT90–check this Mu-F’er out:
https://www.petersoncorp.com/products/btr90-blower-trailer/
Check that out and click on “features.” @thebigsweed, he got tangled up with THAT and didn’t even die! Crazy. The “tines” are what grabbed his hoodie and he somehow broke two, one got his arm doing so and his good arm broke a second. They don’t know how the third one broke but assume it was the one that went through his chest. Man, it pierced his body going directly through his lung and missed his heart. God bless him.
Pura’s situation suddenly became simple—thanks, Chad! Oh man. We’re blessed to be where we are, the biome test is en route and we actually just got back from her blood drawing today. “Progress.” Can you believe we haven’t been out one cent?! UK does things for their citizens we just aren’t accustom to back home. We have a return appointment scheduled and the doctor will have all of the information on her screen and we can kick this infection’s anus! Thank God.
The biome test will either confirm or rule out the parasite we believe we’ve discovered. Then I can be like “so much for not being in the UK, doc, now fix it.” There’s multiple labs up and down this country, Sweed, that test specifically for parasitic infections (31 to be exact) but “it doesn’t exist in the U.K.”
Between the blood results, and the biome results, everything should be in black n white man and when it’s “A, B, C” regardless if we had to hold their hand getting to this point, there’s an “X , Y, Z” to fix it.
Again, thank you so much for being cool and being concerned. Have a great trip you guys, give our love to @farm-mom and I, for one, am glad you got a laptop this time.
Good news all around @dandays. Loma Linda University sounds like the place for him to be. I wonder how far it is from where his wife and children live. He's going to need their support as well and the closer the better.
I'm sure there will be a lot of good and bad days, and as he makes progress, hopefully, the good days will start to outnumber the bad days.
Let's hope the blood tests Pura had done give you guys some direction.
With most medical issues, the worst has got to be not knowing what the heck is going on.
Once the doctors have pinpointed the problem they should be able to have the answers. With this not being the first case of a parasitic infection, hopefully they have a treatment plan already in place.
Will be in touch my friend, stay safe, and sending our prayer.
Oh man! I can’t believe I left that part out! Check this out, @thebigweed. He’s currently in an LA Couny facility, about a two hour drive for his family without traffic. Dude, his home isn’t even two miles from Loma Linda—about a five minute drive, man, can you believe that?!
Yeah, they can come and go as they please.
Have a ssfe trip, Jurg’s!