Do you believe in Miracles...YES!!!

Sorry, this one is a real yucky one!
This was just after they stitched him up.
Look at what a few days does, he gets more swollen and more purple.
This was the day after.
This was the 2nd day. He could barley see out of his eye..
This was tonight.

I am so lucky that I still have a husband!

Todd went with his Dad, brothers, nephew, and friend on a once in a life time Buffalo hunt on the Henry mountain. I was up at my parents home while he was away hunting.

They had been there for 4 days when I got a call from Todd saying that he had been in a 4 wheeling accident and they were one there way to the hospital in Richfield. I could hear his dad in the back ground talking to Todd's Mom asking her to call the ER and tell them they were coming and to get directions. Of course I was scared to death. The only thing that he told me was his back, hips & shoulder were killing him, he thought he had broken his elbow and he had a huge cut on his forehead from his hairline to his eyebrow that was very deep. They had already been driving for 2 hours when he called me and they still had an hour to go.

Todd told me he would call me as soon as he knew anything. I called my parents at work and they rushed home. We decided that the best thing to do was to leave the kids with my Mom and my Dad would drive me down to Richfield.

Stan had called me with an update that they had X-rayed his whole body and did a CT and he came out clean! I was shocked!

I was scared to see Todd, I didn't know what to expect. When I got there they were just about to stitch up his forehead...as you can see it was a really bad, deep cut.

The power of the Priesthood is so strong and such an amazing thing. Todd's dad and brother's gave him a blessing before they left the mountain. They were for sure that he had broken his elbow. They doctor said that it was broken before because there was so much swelling , blood inside and trauma to his elbow but it wasn't anymore!

The guys had to go back up to camp and my Dad and I stayed with Todd. He kept getting all dizzy and nauseous so they wanted him to stay until he felt OK and could keep everything down. They finally released him at 12:00 am on Wed. morning.

The last few days have been horrible or Todd. He can't move an inch without being in so much pain. He has been sleeping in a recliner for that past 3 nights. We got him in to see a specialist for his elbow to make sure everything was OK and they said that it wasn't broken but all the tissue and muscle's had been crushed and it was worse than a break because they couldn't do anything for it. They also told him that with his back, hips and shoulder muscles/tissue had also been crushed and it would take him 6 weeks to start to get back to normal.

I feel so bad for him, anytime he moves he just grunts in pain.

Here is what happened.... Todd was in front of everyone and was heading down a dirt road, he hit a patch of loose gravel and his tire caught and threw him 10 feet over and 7 feet down (measurements thanks to Chris!) face down onto big boulders with his 4 wheeler landing on him and pinning him to the ground. He was unconscious when his nephew Gentry passed but he heard his brother in-law Rod coming and tried to yell for help but couldn't breath. His friend Larry was coming. Todd got all the strength he had left and yelled for help. It is such a miracle that Larry heard or even saw him. Todd's wheeler was still running and Larry's was a very loud one so there was no way he should have heard him. Larry said that he saw the 4 wheeler and stopped to see who it was... He pulled it off of Todd and helped him up to the road. I guess he was bleeding pretty good so Larry took his shirt of to clean him off. He got the other guys on the radio and they all came to help. Thank goodness Chris has an amazing first aid kit and was able to clean up his cut a little and stariostrip it shut. It took them 3 hours to get to the hospital, meanwhile Stan was pulled over by a cop and escorted to the hospital after he saw the situation. Chris was also pulled over.

I just want to say THANK YOU to everyone that helped Todd. I am so thankful for the priesthood. I know it made such an amazing difference on his outcome. I know that Todd had angels watching over him that day. I am so thankful to have had everything work out so well, it is so amazing he didn't break one bone or rib and lived!!! It could have been so much worse!

We all think that we are invincible but we aren't, it is sad that it takes things like this to remember how fragile life is and we don't know when our day will come so we need to live everyday to it's fullest. Life is too short!

I want to tell Stan, Chris, Rod, Larry and Gentry thank you so much for everything you did for Todd. Mom, Dad and Merilee, thank you for helping me get to Todd, letting us stay with you and taking care of us and our kids while we were there. Delena and Jon, Thank you for bringing the chair over, cleaning my house and coming over at 7:30 am so I could take Todd to the Doctor. Mac & G.G for tending so we could have a break. Brooke, Brandon, Kyle, Ellen, Shelly, Diane, Nate & Ashley, all of my ward, friends, family, everyone...thank you so much for keeping us in your prayers and calling and checking up on how he is doing and taking care of ourf kids. We love you and are so lucky to have such wonderful people in our lives.

Todd, I love you! I am so thankful I still have you in my life! You are my everything, I don't know what I would do without you! I am so sorry that you are in so much pain and I will do anything to help you. I am so thankful you are OK! I love you! '

I want to thank my Heavenly Father for taking care of my Todd! He truly watched over and blessed Todd and I am so Thankful for that! This could have been and should have been so much worse! Thank you Heavenly Father for helping Todd get through this. I am forever grateful!