Transfer 3 Week, 4 March 29, 2010

Saturday afternoon Lisa and I went up to Salt Lake to have dinner, visit the Fuchs, and go to the YW General Meeting in the Conference Center. Afterwards we visited with the Fuchs a little longer before heading home. So it was 9:50 p.m. when we rolled in and Bart was on the phone with someone. When he got off the phone we learned he had been talking to Angela’s mission president, President Hutchings, and that Angela had been in an accident on her bicycle. She and her companion were riding home after a baptismal service and she hit some loose gravel and took a bad fall. Maybe a tumble? I don’t know. She was in bad shape though and an ambulance was called. Apparently the hospital in Dickson did a scan on her and found a small tear on her liver. They determined she should be sent to a bigger hospital and in a second ambulance ride she ended up in Nashville in a hospital 20-30 minutes from the mission home. She was doing well, wasn’t particularly in any pain, and the hospital was keeping her over night.

Then I called Sister Hutchings Sunday morning and learned a little more. Angie had hurt her wrist. The tear on the liver didn’t appear to bleeding, or if it was, it wasn’t very much. They expect it to be able to heal on its own. The hospital was planning to do a full body scan on her sometime during the day and we’d hear more later. From a mission perspective, Angie won’t be on a bicycle any more during her mission. She’ll be in a full-time car area. Oh, and of course Angie was given a blessing and the entire mission fasted for her yesterday. And, she missed two additional baptisms Sunday night. It was quite the weekend for her!

I didn’t get a call yesterday afternoon/evening, so I called a little while ago and talked to Sister Hutchings again. This time I learned that Angie has broken bones in the wrist that’s messed up and Sister Hutchings was pretty sure it was the left wrist. There was some discussion about whether or not the wrist needed surgery and she would find out about that later on. [I later learned that she did break the left wrist and her left elbow. She was given a removable cast so she could work/exercise the elbow. And it was determined she did NOT need surgery.] In the meantime, she’s supposed to be picking up Angie this afternoon. In the full body scan they found some bones in her back that appeared to be broken and healed--must have been from a fall she's had. Anyway, that’s all I know for now. I faxed our DMBA insurance card to the mission home. It’s gonna be fun to see what kind of expenses we have from this! The important thing is that Angie is okay, in good spirits, and not in pain.