I was 30 feet away in the next room, eating lunch, and then I hear a God awful crash, slam, and instant yellowing and gasping for air.
I got to him within seconds and found him already bleeding all over the floor...but not sure where it was coming from. My dad is a tough guy. Vietnam vet... Marine corps, tough dude. I have never seen him even indicate pain before aside from when he threw his back out.
Here I find him in so much pain that he can't even talk to me, or recognize me. I tried to keep him still to avoid further injury, and my GF called 911.
It took about a minute before he was responding to anything at all I was saying, and honest to God I was starting to think he had sustained serious head trauma and/or brain damage. I was about to start panicking when he finally re-gained his breath (he had the wind knocked out of him, and his bell rung) and he was able to mumble a little bit.
Long story short, we rushed him to the hospital in an ambulance, and after 7 hours of testing he somehow managed to come home without a broken bone or internal organ damaged. He's so sore and banged up that I had to carry 98% of his weight while he "walked" literally 2 inches at a time.
Really hard day for me... weird seeing your Dad like that. Even weirder when I lost my other GF's dad, whom I was very close to, (RIP) to a fall from a roof just a few years ago.
Here's a little video of me summing up my day, and then I show the damage he caused when he fell.
YouTube - Fiesta Movement AGENT Mark Kleis -Update
I got to him within seconds and found him already bleeding all over the floor...but not sure where it was coming from. My dad is a tough guy. Vietnam vet... Marine corps, tough dude. I have never seen him even indicate pain before aside from when he threw his back out.
Here I find him in so much pain that he can't even talk to me, or recognize me. I tried to keep him still to avoid further injury, and my GF called 911.
It took about a minute before he was responding to anything at all I was saying, and honest to God I was starting to think he had sustained serious head trauma and/or brain damage. I was about to start panicking when he finally re-gained his breath (he had the wind knocked out of him, and his bell rung) and he was able to mumble a little bit.
Long story short, we rushed him to the hospital in an ambulance, and after 7 hours of testing he somehow managed to come home without a broken bone or internal organ damaged. He's so sore and banged up that I had to carry 98% of his weight while he "walked" literally 2 inches at a time.
Really hard day for me... weird seeing your Dad like that. Even weirder when I lost my other GF's dad, whom I was very close to, (RIP) to a fall from a roof just a few years ago.
Here's a little video of me summing up my day, and then I show the damage he caused when he fell.
YouTube - Fiesta Movement AGENT Mark Kleis -Update