06-03-2006, 07:50 AM
Morning fellow believers!
Please can I ask that you hold my son, Ben in your prayers.
Last week we had a horrific accident close to my office, I drove past it not realising my son was in attendance on scene. An 18 wheeler lorry came off the top bridge at Spaghetti Junction, and crashed 2 bridges below onto the N3, onto a 4x4.
The driver in the lorry died immediately and his passenger was trapped under the lorry. My son got under the lorry to help the guy who had serious breathing difficulty so as he was intubating (spl) (pushing a tube down the throat to open up the airway) the guy spat out into Ben's face and straight into Ben's eyes. Ben should have been wearing goggles but he rushed straight to the patient (silly but understandable) and although he had on the gloves, the goggles were in the car a distance away, and so he chose to help the guy breath.
Ben was taken straight to hospital for an eye wash and given anti-retroviral drugs which he now has to take for the next month. The patient will not be tested for HIV unless he gives permission and in any case, the window period for HIV would not necessarily give a true picture of infection.
So, we pray that Ben will be OK and that if the patient was HIV positive, the anti-retrovirals will do their job!
Please can I ask that you hold my son, Ben in your prayers.
Last week we had a horrific accident close to my office, I drove past it not realising my son was in attendance on scene. An 18 wheeler lorry came off the top bridge at Spaghetti Junction, and crashed 2 bridges below onto the N3, onto a 4x4.
The driver in the lorry died immediately and his passenger was trapped under the lorry. My son got under the lorry to help the guy who had serious breathing difficulty so as he was intubating (spl) (pushing a tube down the throat to open up the airway) the guy spat out into Ben's face and straight into Ben's eyes. Ben should have been wearing goggles but he rushed straight to the patient (silly but understandable) and although he had on the gloves, the goggles were in the car a distance away, and so he chose to help the guy breath.
Ben was taken straight to hospital for an eye wash and given anti-retroviral drugs which he now has to take for the next month. The patient will not be tested for HIV unless he gives permission and in any case, the window period for HIV would not necessarily give a true picture of infection.
So, we pray that Ben will be OK and that if the patient was HIV positive, the anti-retrovirals will do their job!