Trevor's Back Injury

Here is a more detailed explanation of Trevor's back injury for those of you who are interested.

We were going to spend the weekend at Navajo Lake camping. Towards the end of the day Saturday Trevor and some friends went to go cliff jumping. I stayed back at camp to watch our stuff. One of the cliffs they were jumping from was nearly 60 feet high. Trevor has cliff jumped before and knows the correct way to do it. However, he had some shoes on which prevented him from pointing his toes well when landing in the water. The impact shot up his body and he instantly knew something was wrong. My brother and another friend were in the water and they helped Trevor to shore. They had to hike back up the canyon to get to the road. They could not carry Trevor because it was so steep but they helped him the best they could. They got him to the car and decided to take him to urgent care.

Luckily we had cell phone service. My brother's girlfriend Holly called me and said that Trevor hurt his back and to meet them at the road. My brother and some friends stayed behind to pack up camp and Holly drove us to Farmington. When we got there urgent care was closed so we had to find the hospital. We went to the ER and were seen after about an hour and a half. Trevor was in tremendous pain and I have never seen him like that before. They did an assessment and finally gave him something for the pain, as well as some muscle relaxers and an anti-inflammatory. He was taken back for an x-ray. The doctor said one of his vertebra looked "kinda funky," so she ordered a cat scan. I really didn't think it was anything at this point. The nurse even came in and said the doctor (our 2nd one after a shift change) didn't think it was, but they have to send the cat scan to another place the has another machine to look at it. After a while the doctor came in and surprized me.

He said that Trevor has a compressed fracture on his L1 vertebra. In other words Trevor broke his back. On the relm of things it is not a huge break and should heal. However, he will be in a TLSO back brace for 10-12 weeks and he can not lift more than 10 pounds. He also has to get a lot of rest and not be as mobile as he is used to being. Nothing strenuous, that would jar his back. We got the a hotel at 3am.

So tomorrow I am making an appoitment to get his brace. They have to mold it and it should be ready within 24 hours. Also, we will try and get him into see a specialist to learn more about what is recovery will look like exactly. We are optamistic and thankful because it could have been far worse. The biggest struggle now is Trevor will be spending a lot of time in bed and this is not easy for him as he is a really active person. :) My parents brought us dinner and got him a computer tray for the bed so he can still do some work from bed. I'll keep everyone up to date as we find out more. Thank you for your thoughts and prayers.