Kindred Helps a Man Recover After Being Crushed By His Tractor
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A man suffered from multiple broken bones after being run over by his tractor, but Kindred helped rehabilitate him to walking and talking again.
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Man: We raise mostly beef cattle. It’s about 55 acres and we have cattle over there. We also raise our hay and cut it and round bails, those big round bails is what we use. They are always and my son loves horses. He has about 5 or 6 quarter horses.
When I finished coming out of the field, we had opened the gate and I had parked it up on the hill and just put it neutral. I didn’t cut it off, which I should have done. I look back and the tractor was rolling and I tried to jump up on it and stop it, and I guess the wheel knocked me down.
Woman: The phone rang and I answered and he said, “Come quick, the tractor ran over me.” So I immediately call 911, got to the field and checked on him. He was still conscious, really perspiring but still alert, and so I said, “Oh I’ve got to go back and find the ambulance” it hadn’t gotten there.
He had multiple fractured ribs, fractured C7, fractured right humerus, fractured left clavicle, fractured pelvis, fractured left femur. I guess that was about the extent of it maybe.
Man: Yeah.
Woman: They told us that they would have to put him on a vent and that they didn’t know if they would ever be able to get him off or not. And so they said, “You’ll never drive again.” They told us all these things that he would never do again, not what he would do but wouldn’t be able to do, and I thought, “No, no, he is too healthy. We are not going to accept all this.”
We had heard about Kindred Hospital. Our daughter is a nurse and so we had him transported to the Kindred facility at Jewish Hospital and they started immediately working with him. The next morning got him out of bed and started ambulating him. And I thought, “Oh, I don’t know, he’s never been out of this bed.” You know, whether they’d be able to get him up or not, but they set him on the side of the bed just for a short time and then they said, “Now then we’ll walk.”
Well the respiratory therapist would push the ventilator with him. And the first day I think we took three steps and then each day he took a few more steps. The first thing that really helped us, they came in and said, “We have a speaking valve,” and we said “A what?” And they said, “A speaking valve.” They said you can put this valve in the vent and he can talk. Oh we called everybody under the sun that he finally can speak and it sounded like his real voice. It wasn’t a horrible horrible sound or anything. We would look forward to making phone calls you know and calling some of his friends and some of the kids and they were so happy to hear him speak. So that was really, really good for him.
It wasn’t so much hospital atmosphere as are other hospitals. It was more personal.
Man: This Sholanda, she would say, “We talk about you everyday when we have our meetings in the morning. You are the star people here”, I guess you’d call it and it makes you feel good. You wanted to do what they wanted to, what they were trying to do.
Woman: They would praise him for little steps that he would make.
Man: When I first walked ever so, really proud or not, it was I believe…
Woman: It was a more of a family atmosphere.
Man: Yeah. Well I think Kindred, like I said, they gave me my life back because I didn’t have one until Kindred got me off of the vent.
Woman: Kindred gave and made us a family again. We could be home with the kids and the grandkids. Kindred was just a special, special place and a special hospital for us.
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