Flipping the BIRD

Saw Joel today after work, went by and talked with his mom and actually got to see him for a minute before they took him off for his first MRI.  It's such a comfort to see him responding, eyes open, and alert.  His mom told me he flipped off the doc the other day and has been making kissing faces at the nurses!  Nice, looks like he has his humor back.  He'll be having a second pelvis surgery tomorrow I believe.  He already has two screws in his pelvic bone.  I also learned today that he servered the femoral artery when he fractured his pelvis.  That explains why there was so much internal bleeding and why the docs had a difficult time stopping it.  He went through 33 units of blood, not 8 as we first heard that night.  To put it into perspective the human body has an average of 8-10 pints of blood.  One unit of blood roughly equals 450ml or 1 pint.  Joel went through about 32 pints of blood or 3.9 gallons!  Maybe I'm the only one who finds this remarkable, maybe since I'm a nurse, but wow! 

There's a benefit planned for May 7th.  I'll post more info regarding it as I receive it.  Until then...God Speed JD...