Let's be careful out there

[Larry C Leung]

Godspeed, Ivan. Recover quickly so that you may return to the seat of
your 'vette! and more importantly, the dinner table.

LL - NY

On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 22:20:54 -0400 "Steve Jensen"
<sjensen at mindspring.com> writes:
>I just got home from visiting a former co-worker in the hospital in 
>ICU.  He
>has a big black late model Corvette, and it was the subject of quite a 
>few
>conversations in the office ("hey, Ivan, sorry I drooled on your car 
>at
>lunch today") since he knew I was a car nut.  Super nice guy, retired 
>from
>the Army as a Sergeant Major a few years ago, and one of the nicest 
>guys you
>could ever meet.
>
>Apparently, he was coming up on a lady who was coming from the 
>opposite
>direction on a two lane road.  She was stopped, waiting on my friend 
>Ivan to
>pass so she could turn.  A 16 year old girl came flying up behind the 
>lady,
>notices her at the last second, hits the brakes but instead of 
>choosing the
>ditch (when it was clear she would not stop in time), goes into the 
>opposing
>lane and slams into my friend Ivan head on.
>
>He was not driving his Corvette at the time, and the car he was 
>driving did
>not have airbags.  He _was_ wearing his seat belt, but his ankle is
>shattered, his sternum is cracked along with broken ribs, and they put 
>a
>long titanium pin in his leg as it was severely broken.  They put a 
>chest
>tube into him and have him on a respirator since the impact caused 
>internal
>swelling making it hard for him to breathe.  He drifts in and out of
>conciousness due to the sedation.  I left his wife some Corvette 
>magazines
>for him to read when he wakes up, and I wept for him and his family on 
>the
>way home.  His wife and grown kids are trying very hard to be strong.
>
>He will have a long road to recovery, and I'm sorry this is such a 
>downer
>but this could be _any_ of us.  The accident was not his fault and he
>doesn't remember a thing about the crash.
>
>Please be careful out there, and if you are a religious type, please 
>say a
>small prayer for my friend Ivan (I will) as he needs all the help he 
>can
>get.
>
>-Steve Jensen
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