Okay, we finally got to see someone from physical therapy & she brought someone from occupational therapy. They did not have him stand but sat him on the edge of the bed for about 7 minutes. He was pretty light headed & felt like he couldn't breathe but they kept him there. He'll probably do better the next time. That was the first time in two & a half weeks he sat with feet on the floor. I guess we should expect him to be light headed.
They also gave us alot of exercises to work on at least 3X a day. Lifting & bending legs, knees & ankles & arms & elbows. The more we can do these, the better off he is.
Something else we weren't expecting is his pneumonia is worse instead of better. Not good but we'll keep him moving and that should help w/this also.
All of the staples from the orthopedic surgeries have been removed now. Most of the wounds look really good except for one. The wound on the right thigh is seeping (most likely from the fluids he's carrying) not from infection.
Now, once again you guys know what I know.
We're still waiting to see what the results of the chest xray from this morning are. I expect we'll see that doctor sometime today.
Thanks for praying
Suzi

I just wanted to add that Tim knows you all are checking on him by phone or visits &/or this blog. He is very grateful to all of you for your thoughts & prayers. Please keep it up - we know it works!
Tim also knows that the reason we are put on this earth is to bring glory to God:
Philippians 2: 9-11 Therefore God has highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

We know that somehow Tim's condition will bring glory to God. We just don't know how yet. We may never know how but we can rest in the fact that it will.
That's what we are doing; resting and believing that God knows what we need & what's best for us.
Thanks so much for everything,
Tim & Suzi

Good morning everyone!
Waiting to see doctors this morning & physical therapists. We don't want any bed sores; apparently that's a concern now.
Tim was in pretty good spirits yesterday & last night, he only gets anxious when he's pretty heavily medicated but, he needs pain meds too.
I'll get back w/you soon, when I know something new.
We're leaning on the Everlasting Arms.
Suzi

Hello Everyone,
A few days after we were here a nurse told me that this kind of trauma brings one step forward & five steps backward. Now I'm starting to understand what she meant. Today Tim's having trouble breathing. Someone just came in to get some arterial blood to see how much oxygen is in his blood & someone else just did a chest xray to see what's going on with his lungs. Oh boy! Plus he's in alot of pain from his right shoulder.
As of yet, no physical therapist to get him stood up or help him move a bit. I'm sure they're busy, this is a gigantic hospital.
We know that God, our Heavenly Father is in control of all things and we're trusting Him and praying for His will to be done.
I'll let you know more as I know it.
Thanks for hangin' in there with us,
Suzi

Hi Guys!
Tim's trying to rest, even though his right shoulder is bothering him like crazy. I think he'll be okay tonight if he can remember to ask Nurse Rita for pain meds when he needs it.
They didn't make Tim try to stand up today, maybe tomorrow.
He really looks alot better than he did a couple of days ago.
We'll see what tomorrow brings; I'm looking for good things!
Thanks to everyone for your thoughts & prayers! They mean so much to us!
Talk to you later,
Suzi

Hi Everyone,
Here we are in room 332; Tim's taking a good nap. Now they give pain medicine only upon request so he needs to remember to push the Nurse Sonya button. She's really nice & helpful.
Tim saw the doctor this morning & he wants him to stand today. Nurse Sonya said that may or may not happen till tomorrow. That's just what Tim's been asking for ever since he could speak. We'll see if it's really what he wants.
He's in alot of pain, so still needs the pain meds.
He look's great, but I can't wait for that mustache to grow back!
More later when we know something,
In Tim's own words: "Jesus loves you & so do I"
Timi Lynn & Suzi

Hi, just a few words before they kick us out of here. Boy, they sure are busy here. Nothing like the one on one attention Tim got in ICU. I guess that's part of getting better. Hopefully he'll get some healing rest tonight.
The doctor's orders are no weight bearing right now because of the broken pelvis. We'll see what happens in the next few days.
Nurse Maria is taking care of him tonight, so I'll leave him in the capable hands of her & God.
Talk to you tomorrow,
Suzi

Well here we are on the third floor of the main hospital, rm#332. No longer in Trauma ICU. Moving was an ordeal & Tim is tuckered out, but Nurse Peggy got everything organized and got Tim moved about an hour ago.

Good News!!!
The pneumonia is under control good enough so that Tim can be moved to a regular hospital room. Now we just have to wait for a bed to become available. (Busy Hospital)
Suzi

Hi Everyone,
Timi Lynn & I got here this morning & Tim was sleeping. It's good to see that - he needs to rest.
Last nite the nurse was able to give him a nasal canula for oxygen instead of a mask at 50% oxygen. The new one is much more comfortable & now he requires less oxygen! This means his body is working better. Yeah!
More Later When We Know Something,
Suzi & Timi Lynn

EKG is normal! Heart rate GOOD!
He's sleeping restlessly, and visiting hours are over for now.
Timi Lynn and I will be back @ about 4:00 pm Pacific Time.
We'll fil you in then.
Bye for now,
Suzi
God is good & we are trully blessed!

Nurse Peggy just told us that Tim's heart beat is up & down so and EKG is scheduled. They'll come to his room to do it. Should happen shortly and I'll let you know the results as soon as I hear them.
Suzi

I forgot to add that the doc said his liver numbers are comming down (good thing) the jondice was apparently caused by the antibiotics. The pneumonia is still with us but getting better. He'll be on antibiotics for a few more days. I'm pretty sure she said his white count is normal. Yeah! They are continuing to do blood tests to make sure all is well or working towards being well.
Suzi

Hi, today is a whole new day. They were able to leave the vent tube out through the night and are giving 100% oxygen through a mask, plus breathing treatments.
Nurse Peggy is keeping him pretty comfortable even though he is convinced he needs to be leaving this place and staying at George's (whoever that is) he's a little delusional. Doctor Osegway says that's normal and could last a while.
Sometime today maybe they will get him up to sit in a big reclining chair, he's napping right now.

Thanks to you all for your thoughts & prayers! The Lord is trully amazing and is holding Tim in His righteous right hand right now! We are trully blessed!

Tyler & Debbie are doing a great job running APC - love those guys!
and thanks to everyone who is helping them!

More later,
Suzi & Timi Lynn

He just told the nurse he is just exhausted. Visiting hours are over for now so maybe he will be able to get some rest.
Timi Lynn told him that she lost a tooth yesterday and he smiled and gave thumbs up.
When we were walking out I waved goodbye and he thumbs upped again.

Hooray!!! Tim's ventilator tube was just taken out! Praise the Lord!
I know we still have a very long way to go, but this is just one less thing to aggrivate him. He isn't speaking like normal, but he can whisper and try to talk.
The very minute the tube was out, he struggled to say "can we go now?" I love it! We told him they need him to stay for a few more days. "ok" he whispered.

We love reading all of your comments! My dad really has some great friends new and old!
Thank you all!

Last night they lowered the # of respiration's per minute to 8! My mom was able to sit with him last night for a few hours. He was wide awake! They watched TV for a while and then he said he wanted to go to sleep so he gestured for Mom to go to bed :)

This morning when we got to the hospital he was awake and they have lowered the vent to 6. Yay Daddy! :) that's what I told him. He is checking out his legs and arms. We tell him which ones are broken or not. It was good to see. He was looking at a tube that goes into his arm and we could kinda understand him ask "what's this?" I told him it is where they are taking blood from when they need to do a test or check his blood sugar level. He made a face that said "okay."
A little later he wanted a nurse. She took a while to get there but when she came he said "there she is."
My mom was told that they are aggressively trying to take him off of the vent today! That will be so nice for him! At least then he will be able to tell us what he needs instead of playing charades.

Again thank you! thank you! everyone for all of the help and support and prayers!

Today Dad looks much better! He looks very peaceful. He is mostly sleeping, but once in a while he peeks at us.
Woo Hoo! they have started weaning him off of the ventilator! This morning they are giving just 10 respiration's per minute down from 14! and less oxygen.
The scans from last night showed no liver damage and no obstructions. Praise God! Also the doctor said his liver numbers are not high enough to cause brain damage and the numbers are going down. Praise God some more!!
His white blood count is up a little. He is getting lots of antibiotics still. But overall, his doctor who saw him Friday says he is looking much better today!

All of our friends have been so so generous! I don't know how we will ever be able to thank you all enough! Everyone please know that we are very grateful! And we thank God for all of you and your thoughfulness!

Yesterday Dad made us laugh a little bit. He was trying to write some things but it took much effort to hold a pen and write just one word. He did write a couple of things we could make out like "TV" and then "remote" (they had to guess at that one) so the nurse told him to push the button to call her and she would come change the channel for him. That make him smile a little. Then he wrote "grandpa" so Grandma asked him "You're asking about your dad?" He shook his head yes. She told him Grandpa had driven home already. Next he wrote "Dean" which was very clear. Dean is his brother who called earlier and my mom put the phone to Dad's ear. After Dean had talked Dad gave a thumbs up! Then he wrote "Zeke." So my mom asked him "do you want to see Zeke?" He nodded yes. After a minute she asked "do you want Zeke so he can pull out that vent tube for you?" Again he nodded yes. They told him none of us can take it out. If we did we would hurt him.
Last night after Dad's scan his face and neck were very swollen more than ever before. He had a new nurse who said the swelling was from the liver problems. Also, he had been sedated again so they could move him and do the tests they needed to do.

Not much new news right now. Dad is awake off and on. He is still on the vent so he is pretty frustrated, but he isn't quite ready to breathe on his own. He keeps gesturing to my mom that he wants to go home. She tells him we can't go yet, and he gets a little upset. It makes me laugh a little because I don't know if he is aware of all that is going on. I know the pain medicine is funny stuff.
He is about to go have a hide (not sure I'm spelling that correctly) scan. They are hoping to find out what is wrong with his liver. We will update as we know more.

Today was a great day! Tim was awake off and on all day long. After the neurologist saw him he was able to have pain medicine. What a blessing that stuff is sometimes. I know my dad thinks so.
Tomorrow we will see if he is able to write on a chalk board because he is still on the vent and unable to talk. He gets pretty frustrated when he needs something and no one knows what he is trying to say :( I can't imagine... Still we praise God for this great day! The nurse today said it will be at least another 24 hours before he gets to be off of the vent.
Thank you to everyone for the prayers! All of your help and support has been amazing.

The nurse says last night was uneventful. An EEG (brain scan) was done and we will get results maybe later today. Today they have not given one bit of pain medicine or sedative.
About an hour ago Tim was waking up and is very agitated. He is biting on his vent tube and trying to communicate. My mom said he wanted to be sat up.
The neurologist was just in and asked him to squeeze her hands. He did. Then she asked him to push against her hands with his feet one at a time which he did with the left foot but was unable to push with the right.
Praise God!!! I know he is very uncomfortable... actually he is probably miserable, but we are really glad he was able to follow commands this morning! Now that he did all of that the nurse was going to ask the doc if dad can have something for pain.

Today the nurse told us she thinks Tim needs more pain medicine. She says he is obviously in pain and is not so sure he needs to be waking up yet. When the doctors did rounds this morning they ordered an ultrasound of his gall bladder to see if he has gall stones. He is turning yellow which means his liver is not doing its job very well.
It turns out he does not have gall stones. And does not have hepatitis so more tests were ordered with his blood and other things to see if that will show any reason his liver is having problems.
Even though he does show brain activity and is responding to pain, he still does not follow commands regularly like open your eyes or wiggle your toes etc. So a neurologist is coming to check him out probably Monday.
He still has the pneumonia. And they have his bed moving side to side and up and down slowly which should help his lungs.

Thank you all again for all of your prayers! We know that the strength we need only comes from God!

Monday morning was a big surprise to all of us. The nurse told Suzi that Tim had taken a turn for the worse. He now has pneumonia. Also he is totally sedated because he was trying to take out his breathing tube. His kidneys are not keeping up either so he is VERY puffy with all of the extra fluid in his body. His blood sugars have been all over the board.

Tuesday we were told he does not have pneumonia. Both humerus bones are broken and were set in surgery. His right femur is broken and was set in surgery. The left tib and fib are not broken, they are what was broken last year so they must still look newly broken on and xray.

Wednesday the doctor ordered that the sedation be taken off completely because they want to see Tim wake up. They have been monitoring brain activity and they say it is good.

Thursday morning Tim has still not waken up so the doctor took away all pain meds hoping that would wake him up. The docs are starting to get concerned that he hasn't waken up yet. His fever is pretty high and has been since Wednesday. He had a ct scan of his head and that came back with good results. Also an ultrasound of his thighs and legs was done today to check for blood clots and they did not find any.

Friday the doctor said Tim now does have pneumonia. Today he had an MRI done and scans of chest and belly. They are just looking for any reason that he is not waking up.

We are so very very thankful for all of the support from our friends and family. Thank you all for everything you have done! The phone calls, cards, donations,hotel rooms and prayers! We know that none of this is a surprise to God.

Sunday

Sunday (June 14) was a very good day! This day the doctors said they wanted to wean Tim off of the ventilator. He was down to 5 respiration's per minute. Many visitors came to see him. He was awake off and on. And he would open his eyes to look at us when he heard our voices. Also he was answering questions by shaking his head yes or no. He has a ventilator tube going down his throat is why he can not talk, but he did mouth some words! He even winked at Timi Lynn!! Zeke had asked him if he knew what happened and he shook his head yes. While Zeke and I were in with him one time he was pointing to his belly and I asked if it was itchy did he want me to scratch and he shook yes. Then we could see that the tubes were really bothering and he almost was gagging. He started moving his hands and finally we could see that he wanted his bed to be sitting up! Then the nurse asked if he wanted his mouth to be suctioned and he shook yes again. We were excited that he was communicating with us. The nurse said that once he gets totally off of the vent he won't have to be in ICU anymore because he has no internal problems, just bones. It was very hard for any of us to leave that night because we could see that he was frustrated and trying to tell us something but we could not understand.

Thank you for checking out this blog! My name is Erin Watson. My parents are Tim and Suzi Hebbert. I am doing this so anyone can check on my dad's progress. I will try to update as aften as I learn anything new!
Last Saturday (June 13) my parents were riding their motorcycles outside of Peach Springs, AZ. We are not sure why or how, but my dad crashed. There were no other vehicles involved. He was awake and alert when my mom got to the accident (she was leading so she had to turn around). At that time he told her that he thought his leg was broken and maybe his arm. He could wiggle his fingers and toes but was not moving much more than that. My mom said it was obvious that at least one leg was broken.
When the ambulance arrived they called for flight for life to come get him. After about 25 minutes the helicopter showed up. The police officer sent my mom on her way so she could get to the hospital as soon as possible. So she had to ride by herself back to Bullhead. I met her at their shop Arizona Performance Cycle, and we headed for University Medical Center in Las Vegas, NV.
When we got to Searchlight Mom called UMC to see how things were going and let them know how far out we were. The nurse on the phone would not tell her anything. In fact she said just to come as quickly as we could and they didn't want to tell us any news while we were driving. After that phone call we tried to prepare for the worst... We just prayed and tried to stay calm the whole way. I have to say the trip was very smooth. And even though we were nervous God gave us the peace and strength we needed to get to the hospital.
Finally we made it to UMC. My best bud Cassie met us there and we scurried through the GIANT place trying to fing the Trauma ICU. Once we found it we were asked to sit and wait. and wait. It felt like forever before a doctor came to escort us to the "quiet room." Then she told us he was in surgery with two broken legs, two broken arms and a broken pelvis but no internal organs were damaged and no brain or spine damage was found! Praise God! We were expecting her to tell us he had gone to be with the Lord.
Shortly after that my brother Zeke showed up. He had been in Flagstaff, AZ and barrowed his girlfriends car to get to Las Vegas. We were glad to have him there with us. The only one missing was my husband Tyler who stayed in Bullhead to finish up some work at the shop and try to track down my dad's bike.
That first night Timi Lynn, Taryn and I stayed at Cassie's house but my mom and Zeke stayed at the hospital.