"You kicked our butts"

12:15pm

Last week, Taylor met with the emergency medical folks from the ambulance and firetruck that responded to his accident. They were the ones that first rendered medical aid and began efforts to save his life. Obviously, they did a good job!

Matthew, Julie, David, Taylor (of course!) Paul and Mike

Julie told us that when they first arrived, it wasn't obvious initially that Taylor was injured. She said he was quite a way away from his vehicle, laying on the shoulder of the road.

She said his hands were behind his head and his ankles were crossed. It sounded more like he was laying on a chaise lounge on a cruise ship than having been ejected from a vehicle. She said she began to talk to him and when he tried to talk it became apparent that there was something wrong.

After getting a second opinion from her Partner, Paul, they decided that Taylor likely had a closed head injury. She said it was uncommon for there to be no other apparent injuries, bleeding, etc., so just looking at Taylor it wasn't apparent that he was hurt as badly as he was.

Julie said once they stabilized Taylor he began to fight with them. She looked at Taylor and said "You kicked our butts" and said she had to get a Firefighter to help hold him down. Taylor said "I'm sorry". I think under the circumstances, he's excused from fighting with a woman. He obviously didn't know what he was doing.

I had previously obtained copies of all the audio tape from that evening, and know that 13 minutes after Julie and Paul arrived, Julie called on the radio saying "Trauma alert....I need a bird (helicopter) in the air". The tone of her voice said a lot. Listening to her when they were dispatched and when they arrived at the scene was completely different from how she sounded now.

The tapes also indicates that the helicopter almost didn't take off from the airport due to fog. The Dispatcher called a third time - kind of a last change call - and was told the helicopter had just taken off and would be at the accident scene in "4 minutes".

Taylor had an appointment at University of Florida today with the facial nerve expert - or so we thought. That's what we were told when we went a few weeks ago for the EMG. But, when checking this week to confirm it, we were told there was no appointment. Good thing we called. But, we have one now for September 10th.