The Accident

For those of you who have only been able to pick up pieces of the story I thought I would re-cap my dad's accident. My family (Mom, Dad, Taylor, Emylee & hubby, Brock & jamie (fiance) went to California for the 4th. Dustin and I were spending the 4th in a family house in Durango, CO for a family reunion. They arrived in Cali on the first and spent most of the next morning biking around the beach and playing.
My dad loves to body surf, boogie board and surf, basically anything that keeps him in the water. However, as he tried to catch a wave on Monday afternoon, the wave doubled up on him and knocked him down. We later would learn that he had broken his neck, however, at the time Emylee and her friend only saw him lying face down in the water. They flipped him over and dragged him to the beach where he was beginning to turn blue. They soon got him breathing and into the ambulance that would take him to the UCLA hospital.
He is now in a HALO that is stabilizing his neck and they expect he will wear it for the next three months. Because he breathed in so much water he caught pnemonia and is trying to recover from that before he will be able to start on more rigorous physical therapy.