Wow! What a week!

Our week started out pretty quiet but by Tuesday night things were definitely not so quiet anymore. Cory was working a day shift but called at suppertime to tell me he would be late for reasons I can't put in this blog. I wasn't expecting him home until after midnight at the earliest but I got a call from Tyler, his partner, just before midnight asking if Cory got home yet. Cory wasn't home and he wasn't answering his cell phone. I didn't panic and just assumed he was either busy with something or wasn't getting cell reception. At about 12:30am I decided I would go to bed. I had just crawled into bed when there was a knock on our door. At first I thought it must have been Cory and he couldn't get in for some reason but it was actually Tania, one of Cory's co-workers. I thought it was strange to see Tania on my doorstep at 12:40am but I still wasn't panicking. However, once I opened the door and saw the look on her face the panic did start to set in.

Tania was here to tell me that Cory had been in an accident that he was at the hospital in Canora. My heart immediately starting racing like crazy but I remained calm. She told me all she knew was that he was doing okay and that she was there to take me to the hospital. So I got myself and Cameron ready, poor Cameron had been sleeping for hours, and then we headed to Canora. On the way to Canora we saw the flashing lights of a police car on the side of the road just before we got to Canora. We slowed down as we drove by and could see Cory's police car upside down in the ditch. I'll admit that once I saw the car I was a little more panicked but I still remained calm.

When we arrived at the hospital, Tania went in first to check things out and to tell Cory that we were there. Cory was quite a sight when I walked into the room...he was still on the backboard and had on the neck brace and was pretty much covered in blood. He was talking and doing pretty well but he was in a great deal of pain. The took a bunch of x-rays and everything looked fine but he was having a lot of neck pain so he was going to need a CAT scan because the x-ray wouldn't show anything with the neck brace on and the it couldn't come off when the didn't know whether he had a neck injury or not. To make a long story short, he ended up being taken to Yorkton by ambulance for a CAT scan at 3am.

Tania, Cameron and I followed the ambulance to Yorkton and did some more waiting while they did the scans and then read the results. By around 5:30am we finally got the results that everything was fine and they finally took off the neck brace and got Cory cleaned up a little more. He has many bumps, bruises, cuts and scrapes. The worst cut is actually on the side of his head where it basically looks like it was shaved. He was very upset when he finally got home and saw he had a huge bald spot. Cory was then taken back to the Canora hospital where he would stay a little while longer for observation. Tania took Cameron and I home and we finally got back to Sturgis shortly after 7am.

I was so grateful to have Tania here to help me. She was such a huge help with keeping me calm and with watching Cameron. She pushed him around the Canora hospital in a wheelchair and then Cameron pushed Tania around in a wheelchair. She walked with him at the Yorkton hospital and helped to keep him occupied. Cameron was trooper through the whole thing and I couldn't believe he stayed awake with us all night. He did fall asleep as soon as we left Yorkton when we were headed for home though.

I found out what actually happened throughout the evening. Cory was on his way home after working a 15 hour day. He had just passed a car and was moving back into the right lane when a buck ran out in front of him. To make a long story short, when he swerved to miss the deer he eventually ended up rolling the police car. Ross, his corporal, was also on his way home and was only about 2 minutes behind Cory so he was on scene very quickly and called 911 to get the ambulance there. Cory had managed to unbuckle his seat belt and crawl out the driver's side window by himself.

I went to pick Cory up from the Canora hospital at noon on Wednesday. He was moving very slowly and in a great deal of pain. His chest/sternum is very, very sore and he has a lot of places that are very tender where he was cut and chunks of skin came out. Thursday afternoon he wanted to get out of the house. He wanted to find out where all of his stuff was that was in the car and he also wanted to go to see his car that was taken to Yorkton. All of his stuff was thrown from the car and the only that remains missing is a set of handcuffs, but they can certainly be replaced. Everyone kept saying they were amazed that he got out and walked away from the car and we knew what they were talking about when we saw the car. We took lots of pictures but I'm not going to post them. If anyone wants to see them, I can email them though. The car is completely destroyed. Cory didn't remember the air bag deploying but we saw that it did.

So, is off work until the end of next week. Hopefully, he'll be feeling much better by then and be able to get back at it. He was actually upset that he had to miss work for the rest of this week...that's how much he loves his job. Of course, I'd rather be at work than sitting at home in pain. Today he was pretty tired and sore, most likely because he over-did it yesterday with his outing, so he's stayed pretty close to the couch all day.

Cory is definitely lucky to have walked away with very minor injuries. His seat belt most likely saved his life. I am so grateful that he is okay and I hope I never have to go through anything like this again...it was very scary. He's going to be fine but it will take some time for him to get back normal...or well, as normal as he can be!

Until next time...