Monday, July 28, 2008

Another ER visit



Can you say another ER visit....less than a week apart from Nevins. Oh boy the vacation we just had was one from HELL. Started off great but then went down hill quickly. The pic above is Emeri's eye the morning after my sister in law rolled the jeep on it's side. VERY scary experience. Emeri was buckled in they say but still managed to hit something hard. Not sure what that was. Poor thing....but everything and everybody was okay after it happened. We were between Silverton, CO and Ouray, CO on a trail called "Corkscrew". We love this trail because it's not really rocky. Well Cody and I stopped at the bathrooms and then ran out of gas so we told Ranell (mother in law) to go ahead and we will meet them at top. Well just right after they passed another jeep past and went ahead of us. A little time passes as Cody is filling up tank with our gas can and the jeep that went past us came flying back down backwards. The guy jumped out and ask "Is your Mom in the wrangler up ahead?" Cody said yes, well they just rolled it. OH S*%#@ I said. First thing I think is off the mountain. Im paniced by this point and I start asking about Emeri. Guy said everything is okay and little blonde (which would be Emeri) has a pretty good cut. So I jumped in with him while Cody got everything put away. I get up there and just saw the jeep in the road turned on it's side. WHEW thank god it wasn't off the mountain. I look at Emeri and saw that she is going to need stitches. I forgot my first aid kit down at our jeep about 100 yards down the hill. So I start running down to go get it. Cody cant get the jeep started. It's flooded....oh great. I go running back up the hill without Cody. I go back to tend to Emeri and she is already bandaged up and stopped bleeding for the most part. Now what....how are we going to get down off this mountain?? There are about 7 guys helping us get the jeep turned over and out of the road. Cody is still trying to get up the hill and finally he shows up because he is the youngest of these 7 guys that were trying to get this jeep turned back over. I knew he could help ALOT!! Well after about an hour we finally got the jeep on all 4 wheels again. It wouldn't start. Our jeep finally started and we headed down the hill in our jeep with our saviors in their jeep to make sure we made it down okay. We left Ranells jeep up there until Friday morning. Called tow company to go and get it. What happened was that the jeeps engine died and so they rolled back into a bank to get it started again and went to fast and turned over. Rolled upon bank to fast then tipped. Cody would of done same thing. Got down finally and headed to Montrose, CO to the hospital. 4 stitches later and a nice drug to calm her down was a breeze!! Just very very very thankful for the people that helped us get down. Guy and Ladonna Garrett were our saviors. They had 3 great children that helped entertain ours while we were dealing with jeep. Kalei was with us while this happened and twins were with Cody's grandparents at the hotel, they are still a little to young to bring and Thankfull that they are still young.


Some pics of the moutain we went over before lunch. All this happened after lunch.
We will be getting back into a jeep, Emeri on the other hand may not be getting back into one.

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