I received a terrible phone call this morning about my cousin Rob. Two weeks ago some kids had stolen his daughter's bike. Last night while walking home from work he saw two kids with the bike. He walked up to them and said that he didn't want any trouble, he just wanted the bike back. His wife saw him and she came, and he told her to take the bike home. Another kid blindsided him. 
With what he was blindsided with we aren't sure. It may have been a baseball bat. There were seven thirteen year olds in all.Rob later went into seizure, then into a coma. Last night the doctors weren't sure that Rob would make it. They operated on him, taking out a piece of bone from his skull, as well as a very large blood clot.
The last information I had was that he could––when asked by the doctors––wiggle his toe, grab the bed rail, and give a thumbs up sign. The doctors are encouraged by that, but have given him medicine to sleep in order to keep him calm.
He currently has a tube running from his brain so that the blood to will flow in order to reduce the brain's swelling . The doctor's said that the next four days will be hard, and that things will get worse before they get better.
At this point they had only found six of the seven 13 year olds. The seventh is the one believed to have made the blow to Rob's head. The other six have been released back to their parents.Rob, his wife, and their children would certainly appreciate your prayers.
4 comments:
We will be praying. Please keep us posted!
will definitely be be praying.
I will certainly be praying for him. A bike is hardly worth this. I'm so sorry for his whole family and will ask others to pray as well.
Cheri Carlson
Our prayers for him, his family and your whole family as you deal with this senseless tragedy. It's hard to imagine what goes through a 13 year old's mind to do something like that. Wow, our world is so broken.
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