June 27, 2017 1:15 pm
Josh had another episode this morning where his limbs start flailing and he seems to fight against the ventilator tube in his throat. The doctors are now wondering if these episodes are seizures. So they have now attached wires to his head to run a continual EEG. Until they can get these episodes under control (one way or the other), we can't make major progress towards letting him wake up.
We did learn more about the accident itself from one of Josh's friends who was there. Josh and a couple of friends from his work had gone camping at a place out towards Tillamook. The main purpose of the camp out was to ride their dirt bikes. Since Josh was relatively new to dirt bike riding, they choose a location that had some dirt roads they could ride on rather than more difficult trails.
On the day of the accident, Josh was out riding with one of his friends. Josh's bike had some mechanical issues and so the friend, who was a more experienced rider, switched bikes with Josh. On their way back to camp, the two had just gotten around a hairpin curve and everything seemed fine. The friend was in the lead and got back to camp first. When Josh didn't get back, his friend went looking for him but couldn't find him. He came back to camp and got a second friend and the two of them went looking. This is when they discovered Josh down in a ravine. They climbed down the ravine to help Josh. Josh was moving around but was not able to communicate. While one friend (with EMT training, thankfully) stayed with Josh the other went for help. The friend with Josh had to give him CPR twice while waiting. The other friend showed up soon with a sheriff and an EMT truck was soon there. They were able to pull Josh out of the ravine using the winch on the EMT truck and then transport him to a location where he could be transported by helicopter to the hospital.
While no one knows exactly what happened, Josh's friends are now wondering if the problem wasn't the fact that Josh was riding his friend's dirt bike and not his own. The friend's dirt bike is a two-stroke bike with a different feel in terms of deceleration. That, coupled with the fact that Josh was a relative novice, could have been enough to cause the accident.
Josh had another episode this morning where his limbs start flailing and he seems to fight against the ventilator tube in his throat. The doctors are now wondering if these episodes are seizures. So they have now attached wires to his head to run a continual EEG. Until they can get these episodes under control (one way or the other), we can't make major progress towards letting him wake up.
We did learn more about the accident itself from one of Josh's friends who was there. Josh and a couple of friends from his work had gone camping at a place out towards Tillamook. The main purpose of the camp out was to ride their dirt bikes. Since Josh was relatively new to dirt bike riding, they choose a location that had some dirt roads they could ride on rather than more difficult trails.
On the day of the accident, Josh was out riding with one of his friends. Josh's bike had some mechanical issues and so the friend, who was a more experienced rider, switched bikes with Josh. On their way back to camp, the two had just gotten around a hairpin curve and everything seemed fine. The friend was in the lead and got back to camp first. When Josh didn't get back, his friend went looking for him but couldn't find him. He came back to camp and got a second friend and the two of them went looking. This is when they discovered Josh down in a ravine. They climbed down the ravine to help Josh. Josh was moving around but was not able to communicate. While one friend (with EMT training, thankfully) stayed with Josh the other went for help. The friend with Josh had to give him CPR twice while waiting. The other friend showed up soon with a sheriff and an EMT truck was soon there. They were able to pull Josh out of the ravine using the winch on the EMT truck and then transport him to a location where he could be transported by helicopter to the hospital.
While no one knows exactly what happened, Josh's friends are now wondering if the problem wasn't the fact that Josh was riding his friend's dirt bike and not his own. The friend's dirt bike is a two-stroke bike with a different feel in terms of deceleration. That, coupled with the fact that Josh was a relative novice, could have been enough to cause the accident.
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