48 hours

Friday, October 16, 2009

4:00 am - Alarm goes off.

4:30 am - Actually get out of bed

5:30 am - Walk out the door, for those of you who don't know, the sun is NOT up yet.

6:00 am - Arrive at Starbucks to meet Roman for our weekly, Friday morning coffee.  We catch up and talk about what we're going to talk about at Bible study later.

8:00 am - Arrive at work.

8:45 am - Fix and eat my oatmeal.

9:00 am - What should be a five minute meeting with my boss turns into an hour long talk session.  This week we've been talking a lot about Tim and death and what it means.  My boss keeps saying how fragile life is.

10:00 am - Run around to get my morning orders in

1:00 pm - Talk to my boss about the afternoon orders.

1:30 pm - Pat calls.  Late last night Mark and Wills were in an accident.  Mark is looking alright, but Wills may not make it.

1:40 - 2:10 pm - I have no idea what happened in this time period really.  Everything was like a movie, but in the mix of all of it, I got my orders complete, completely broke down in my boss's office, and ran around the building at least 50 times, because as I'm finding, shock doesn't really fare well on me.

2:25 pm - Finally calmed down a little.  My boss gave me some busy work and that helped distract me.

3:30-3:50 pm - Left work and went  to the church.  I have never cried/prayed/yelled/freaked out the way I did on the way to the church. 

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm - Wait at the church for David.  He was making an emergency trip home and once he got home we would go to the hospital.

5:00 pm - Roman and I went to Panera and Wal-Mart.  (He did a great job of dealing with me, even in a zombie state)

6:15 pm - Got to David's and we leave for the hospital

6:45 pm -7:30 pm- Sit at the hospital with the Mayo's.  Find out that Wills has made improvement since the morning but, still not "out of the woods."  Machines are doing all of the work for him.  Visiting hours don't start up again until 8:30.  We decide to head home, and come back tomorrow.

8:00 pm - Walked into the Watts and was handed a beer and dinner.  Thank God for this.

9:00 pm - We decide to head over to Mark's.  He was having trouble walking, and getting around.  Super sore.  We talked about the accident and the Deer Hunter show. 

9:30 pm - Dave and I go rent a movie to take back to Mark's. 

10:00 pm - Help Mark get down the steps to the living room.  It was painful to watch Mark in so much pain.  I've never been so grateful, happy, excited, elated, and every other emotion, to see Mark.  I would have lost it if something happened. 

11:00 pm - Mark is settled on the couch and we watch the movie.


Saturday, October 17, 2009


1:30 am - Get home, sit down, its been crazy.

2:30 am - Still awake.  Mind is reeling, exhausted, worried, happy, freaked out.  I've never felt so many different things at once.

3:30 am - Almost awake for 24 hours and somewhere between crying and praying, I fall asleep.

9:30 am -  Wake up, try to go back to sleep but remember all that has gone on, and my mind is ready for the next day.

11:00 am - Jaime comes over for a lunch that we had planned.  The normalcy of lunch and shopping at Target, keeps me distracted until the 3pm visiting hours start up.

1:30 pm - Redbox and Five Guys with Dave.

2:45 pm - Get to hospital just in time for 3 pm visiting hours.  Hang with the family some.  Wills is doing alright today.  Stable, but still has machines and it's still an minute by minute kind of deal. We got to see him today.  It was hard.  At my work, my job is to deal with respiratory supplies.  I send out/order/deliver all the things you need to breathe through a machine.  Never did I think I would see all of that supplies on a friend, on a healthy 21 year old.

3:30 pm - Head home. 

4:30 pm - Start making an awesome Dirt Cake for Mark.  I know how much Mark loves it, and I could use a little Dirt Cake myself, so it was a win/win.

6:00 pm - Go to my mom's and pick up a classic, Game Boy Color and a couple games for Mark.

7:30 pm - Arrive at Mark's, show his mom some China pictures as he gets to talk to Duncan (yay!).

8:00 pm - Pat comes over and somehow I was forced to watch Independence Day...UGH.  That movie is so ridiculous.  No wonder I haven't seen it up until this point.  But it was great to see that Mark and Pat are still the Mark and Pat they probably were when they were like, 5.  It was the first time I laughed genuinely and really hard in the last 36 hours...and it felt great.

10:30 pm - Pat had to leave, but Mark and I watch Dan in Real Life.


Sunday, October 18, 2009


12:30 am - Get home and go straight to bed.  Two nights in a row I've gone to bed after 12, and that is a huge deal.  My body is tired and hurts.  My emotions are the same way.

9:30 am - With no alarm set, I wake up just in time to make it to church.  After a long debate in my mind, I decide that it would be better to go, and not sit around all day, worrying and thinking.

12:30 pm - I get to hang out with Addi and Keagan and even little Judah for a while, and of course, they make everything feel a little bit better.

1:30 pm -  Hang with my brother and my mom.  Decide that I want to go to hospital again.

2:30 pm - Find http://twitpic.com/m2f6c < on twitter.  Makes me happy to see that Mark is enjoying the Game Boy. haha, especially the Pokemon game.

3:30 pm - Arrive at hospital.  A lot less people there today. 

4:00 pm - Wills is aggitated today.  They cut down on smoe of the sedatives and hes pulling at stuff and very frustrated.  Nurses have to fight to hold him down.

4:30 pm - Vitals aren't looking great.  All they can do is give him more sedatives so he can calm down a bit.

5:30 pm - Wills breaks free of retraints and takes out his breathing tube.  Not sure what these means, could be good or bad.

6:15 pm - Things are looking up for Wills.  They think that he might be able to keep the breathing tube out.  He was talking a bit, really worried about Mark and kept saying sorry.

6:20 pm - I get to go "peek" in.  They don't really want him to see me, because he might get wound up if he's over stimulated, so I just look in the window.  He has gotten himself almost to the point of falling off the bed.  He looked like he was making a fast break.  But the nurses came in and had to literally, wrestle him, back down in bed.  He kind of looks like a zombie and it's hard to watch him struggle.  I wanted everything just to go int he room and talk to him, but the nurses rush us away.

6:25 pm - Because of all the chaos, his vitals are crazy.  They'll be running tests on him later at night to see if him pulling the tubes out did any damage.  If he can start breathing well on his own without the tube, there is a LOT of hope.

6:50 pm - I head the Potis' to see Taylor and the family.

8:30 pm - Get home.  The earliest I've been home in two nights.  I cook some dinner/lunch for the next day, to keep my mind going.

10:30 pm - Head to bed.  



The past 48 hours were absolutely crazy.  I couldn't help but think about something that Roman always says.  Today is today, there is no day like it in history and there will be no day like it in the future.  I would have to say, that I don't want anymore 48 hours like this one.  What we think starts off as a normal day/weekend turns into a rollercoaster ride that is completely unexpected.  Exhuasting.