Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Bad 4 wheeler accident by the farm

I just wanted everyone to include Mike Mundus in their prayers. He was hurt pretty bad Sunday night...he wasn't found until Monday morning. (Mike lives just west and north of the farm...hunts with Joe and is a really good friend of Joe's.) Joe got a call early Monday morning saying Mike was missing---he had been on his 4wheeler Sunday night and hadn't come home...Joe went in the jeep and a couple of guys got their 4 wheelers out, but they couldn't find him...so they called someone with a plane...the plane spotted him right away. He was just about 25 yds. upstream from the pasture fence line. He had crossed the river and was trying to go up a bank to get to the farm's pasture (he had been at another neighbor's house, and had decided before he went home that he'd go and look at where the 'cabin' is going to be built---the log cabin that Joe and all these guys are going to build)...well the way the grasses were growing along the embankment, it looked more like a gradual incline, but it was just a straight up and down 6' embankment. The 4 wheeler didn't make it up the embankment, and it fell back on him and pinned him on the ground. He laid there for 12 hrs....his wife had been looking that night when she noticed he wasn't back yet. They have a tent site on a sandbar, and they go there quie a bit, so she thought he might have just stayed there, but he normally didn't do that on a Sunday night when he'd have to work the next day...and he wouldn't normally do that by himself either... regardless...he laid there a long time. Joe and 2 other guys got to him as soon as the guy in the plane told them where to go. Joe said when he started looking for him, he didn't keep going the direction of where Mike was, because there were no new tracks that direction, so he didn't think he'd be there...well, Mike came from the other side, so Joe wouldn't have seen the tracks....Anyway.....A life flight came from Mason City and landed on the sandbar near where Mike was at. Mike had his vertebrae crushed and as of right now, he's paralyzed from chest down. He also hurt his neck, but the spinal cord was not severed. He has use of his arms...they were not under the 4 wheeler....he couldn't reach a cell phone in his pocket to call when he got hurt... The doctors say there is a slim chance he could regain feeling, but more likely he'll be paralyzed. Joe went to Mason City yesterday and saw him, and Mike seems determined to do all he can do to try and regain whatever he can. He'll be going to Des Moines next week to be assessed and then to start the rehab process.Mike's an independent bricklayer, so this will definitely affect his life in many ways. So, it'd be great if you could include Mike in your prayers...he sure needs a bunch of them. We'll keep you updated...

1 comment:

Terry said...

Update on Mike...he had his leg amputated on Friday. The cut was too bad and too much infection... he goes to Des Moines for rehab starting in a couple of days.