Stefann and Sarah as of October 3, 2008

For those of you who are just now finding out about Stefann and Sarah's car accident, here is the story as I know it.

October 2, 2008
Stefann was driving Tony Little's car to a catering event when an oncomming car veared into Stefann's lane. Stefann swerved to miss the oncomming car, but they collided head on. Stefann and Tony were taken in one ambulance to Wilson Memorial Hospital in Johnson City, NY. Sarah was airlifted to Aronot Ogdent in Elmira, NY, and the lady in the other vehicle was taken to Upstate in Syracuse as far as I know.

Sarah was released by 6:00 pm on October 2 and my friend, Cindy, took Sarah and me to Wilson to be with Stefann. Tony was released later that evening, but Stefann was admitted.

October, 3, 2008

Sarah mainly has lots of bumps and bruises. Tony has lots of stitches in his face, some in his hip (maybe, not sure on that one), and possibly a bone chipped in his ankle.

Stefann has a broken right leg (not the weight bearing bone, the smaller one between the knee and the ankle), stitches in his left knee and it is swollen very badly, and a bruised lung. He is being kept for observation mainly on the bruised lung, but he had to wait for a HUGE brace to be put on his right leg to limit mobility.

Today Stefann slept most of the day. Between sleeping, he would be nausious. Finally, the nausia calmed and he was able to eat some chips, part of a Snickers, and drink some soda. THEN he got some pain medication orally and is starting to feel a lot better.

Alex and DH came down tonight and brought us clothing, my laptop, and some hygene stuff. Thank you to them both. Now I'll be able to document better what is going on.

8:30 - 8:45 pm: Alex and DH leave to go home. Tommy left to return home for the evening. Stefann got more pain medication and almost immediately went soundly to sleep.

9:45 pm: Nurse Sally turned off Stefann's Oxygen - goal #1 to go home is to go without the O2!
Nurse Sally also got a recliner for me to sleep in tonight. I'm already WAY more comfortable than I was last night, but it was midnight before we got to Stefann's room last night.

Now, I'm goint to try to get the word out to everyone what happened and I'll send links to this page.

Thank you everyone for your prayers and good thoughts.

I'll leave you with this thought. Although I am not happy that Stefann is still in the hospital, I am glad he was the one driving. Tony is a much smaller person than Stefann and I'm afraid that with the bruising that Stefann has on his lung that if Tony would have been driving maybe he would not be with us today. God works in mysterious ways. Thank you, God that all lives were being watched over by you in this accident. - Amen