Road Wreck Research Paper

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Numerous people have been in a wreck. Numerous people have came close to death due to a wreck. Sometimes we wonder how the person survived such a terrible accident. In the early year of 2005 my only brother was in one of those terrible accidents. He was only eighteen at the time and had recently graduated from high school. You can never predict what will happen throughout the day, but no one was expecting him not to come home from work that day for the next three months. I remember like it was yesterday that I woke up and was so excited to finally have a girls day with my mom. She was going to take off work early and come get me from my dad's. I knew something was wrong when it had passed the time for her to come get me. I kept asking my dad when she was coming, but he would never answer me. Later that night my mom finally arrived. I could tell something was wrong because she looked as if she had been crying. She sat down and told me everything that had happened. My brother had been headed to work at Sonic in Abita Springs when he suddenly fell asleep at the wheel. His car went around the first eighteen-wheeler, but collided with the second one. His car went underneath the massive truck and the back tires …show more content…

When he arrived at the hospital, he went into emergency surgery. The doctors worked hard to save his arm and to fix his leg. The surgery took at least three hours to complete. They had to put two metal rods throughout his arm and two metal rods going down his leg. They could not sew his wounds up on his arm due to how inflamed his tissues and muscles were. They put a big white air bag type machine over his open wound on his arm to keep out infection. Were the bone had broken through his skin they had to take a skin graph from his upper leg to cover it. He had also lost so much blood that the doctors said he was very lucky to have even been alive when he was finally removed from the