Hey, so, my brother was in a pretty serious car accident this morning. He was apparently t-boned on the passenger side of his car while traveling westbound through the intersection of N Carefree and Powers (if you don't know, don't worry; that's just for those of you who know the Springs). Somehow he ended up then colliding head on with an old (as in, made entirely of steel-reinforced steel) pickup truck that was stopped waiting for the light. Conditions were super cold early this morning there, so icy roads are prolly what set all of this off.
By the time my sister got there, the paramedics had arrived and were cutting my brother out of his now completely totaled Chevy Malibu. They stabilized him at the scene, and he was conscious and responsive. Well, right now he's at the hospital. He's going to be fine, I guess, but in the meantime he's kinda jacked up: 3 or 4 broken ribs, a punctured lung which has already collapsed once, a cracked spleen (which I don't even know what that means), and a small cut on his thigh which required 5 stitches. They're doing x-rays on basically his whole body now to find out if he fractured his femur (which they are relatively sure he did) or if he did any damage to his spine. He'll be in the hospital for the next couple of days while they watch something or other.
But the word is he's going to be fine, so thank God for that. I'm thinking I'm going to end up leaving my car in Colorado after Christmas break for him to drive around in, at least for next semester, since I only very rarely use mine out here. The really, really scary part of all of this is that at this point, my brother doesn't have health insurance. Which is just plain scary.
So, I guess I'll just say, Please pray.
Peace, love and joy to you all
