My Broken Brother

My poor brother Chris has had the worst luck with his health and his body.  He has broken parts of both of his legs within a year of each other and had other crappy things happen, but this has been by far the worst.  Back on April 8th Chris was up trimming tree's on the top of my dad's tractor.  He had a chainsaw in his hands and started to fall.  There was a wall on one side so he leaned to land on the grass, and he also had a chainsaw that was going in his hands so he just went straight done and landed on his feet.  He took most of the weight on his right leg and it completely crushed his leg from the knee down.  He said it was the worst pain he has ever been in.  
When they got to the hospital they did X-ray's and didn't know where to go from there.  It was in so many pieces and the ball of his ankle was crushed. He had bone matter all over in his leg, and the swelling was horrible.  They gave him a blessing, and asked for the doctors to know what to do, and they would be able to get it fixed.  
When the doctor came in, he wasn't very confedint and gave them some different options of what they could do.  None of them were very good, and he said but if things look ok we will be in surgery for three hours and you will know that we were able to get things put back together.  My mom looked at the doctor and said, "we have given him a blessing and you are going to be able to do the surgery and everything is going to work out."  It kinda shocked the doctor, but my mom was 100 percent sure that it would work.  

During the surgery they were able to put everything into place as well as they could and he had a lot of hardware inside his leg holding it together .

But weeks went by and Chis just got so sick, and then more time went by and he was getting even worse.  He has so much pain and he could hardly move any part of his body without it hurting.  They told him he just had gout and sent him on his way.  He was feeling so bad, and looking so bad that we all thought he was going down hill way to fast and if something didn't change he was going to die.  It was like watching my Grandpa Merrill all over again.  Just one thing after another going wrong and he is feeling worse and worse.  He had been in almost every day for tests and they tried to find out why he was hurting so bad and why he was so sick.  He lost a lot of weight, and he was gagging and throwing up all the time.  The weird thing was his leg that wasn't even broken was hurting him and swelling really bad.
I don't know why it came to me, but I had remembered talking to the doctor while I was having Max about metals and how eventually everyone will become allergic to them the more they are exposed to them.  So I told Cindy that I thought Chris was allergic to all the metal they had in his leg and that is why he is so sick.  She thought it was very rare and strange but said it would be their luck that would be what was wrong.
They had a doctor come from Salt Lake to see him and he told them that he thought it was that also.  Another thing that his leg started to do was reopen where they did the surgery and the screws were starting to poke out of his leg.   

So they took him in and took out most of the hardware and had to do this weird external hardware on his leg.  It was such a horrible thing and I was always so scared that he was going to bump it.   It has five or six long metal sticks going in his leg and out the other side holding his bones in place.  He has to wear this for six more weeks and then see how he is doing.  (up to this point it has already been over two months)  So he starts to feel better, but then starts getting chest pains and other weird pains.  So they run some more tests on him and they found a strange dark spot in his lungs.  So they start to get worried and tell him it could be cancer.  And for some reason it takes weeks and weeks to run a test and weeks and weeks to find out the results.  So after a long time of Chris worrying and stressing out, they tell him that everything turned out normal.  WOW  so much stress, pain, and STRESS.  During all of this is his most busiest times for his candy shop and for his events.  My parents and who ever else could help has really stepped in to help him and make sure everything was taken care of.  

This is the first picture of all the hardware in his leg

This is a picture of where he fell.  You can see the wall on the one side that he could have hit and killed himself.  And I am not kidding about that.  That is exactly how Elizabeths teachers husband dies in his thirty's.  He was up with a chainsaw on a tractor the exact same way Chris was, but when he fell he fell backwards and fell onto the sidewalk and hit his head and it killed him instantly.  So I know that Chris has been going through the worst year of his life with this whole thing, but he is just so lucky to be alive.  

This is him in the back of the car on the way to the hospital after it happened.   Poor guy!!!  It has been six months now and he has gotten the external hardware taken off and the doctors say he should be able to put a little more weight on it each day but he is still having problems with it. It is swelling so bad it is going to tear the scar bake open and he is still in a lot of pain.  None of it makes any sense and he should be on his way back to normal but he still feels so far away from it.  I am so sad to see him feel this way.  I can see and feel that he is depressed and that he is not feeling well.  I can not wait for him to get back to feeling good again and be completely healed.