Hi,
Yesterday something so traumatic happened at my home I can't shake the awful feelings.
My lawn guy of 14 years came to mow our lawn for the first time of the season. He showed up just as I was leaving to get my daughter from school, but I went and talked to him for a few minutes before I left. I also paid him for the hedge trimming job he had completed the week before. I left to get my daughter at 2:22 pm.
By 2:45 pm, he was dead in my front yard.
Now, for some more history: Three weeks ago, when he was in the midst of our hedge trimming, he was taking a load of limbs to his ranch to dump them. A truck driving in front of him lost a large hay bale and our lawn guy crashed head on into it, destroying his small truck and giving him a concussion. He'd just returned to work last week, but was still in some pain.
From the report of my neighbor, who witnessed the death, he walked over to her as she returned home, then asked her if he could sit down, as his leg felt strange. He then stretched out on the sidewalk and had what now appears to be a seizure. He became cyanotic (blue) and died.
I am a healthcare professional. I know CPR. No one on the scene even attempted it. I feel so bad I wasn't here...my husband feels the same way as he's also a healthcare worker. I know in my head that there was likely nothing ANYONE could do (I suspect he had a huge brain bleed, similar to Natasha Richardson's), but my heart still wishes I could have tried.
Bob leaves behind an ex wife, 3 young kids, a SO. He also leaves behind his farm dogs, and a herd of cattle. I worry about the family, and I worry about the animals. Did anyone even tend to them last night or this morning?
We were Bob's first big client he had back in 1995. It's so ironic that we were also his last and he was working for us when he got the concussion.
I'm just so sad...so sad.
Thanks for letting me share. RIP Bob.
Cally
Yesterday something so traumatic happened at my home I can't shake the awful feelings.
My lawn guy of 14 years came to mow our lawn for the first time of the season. He showed up just as I was leaving to get my daughter from school, but I went and talked to him for a few minutes before I left. I also paid him for the hedge trimming job he had completed the week before. I left to get my daughter at 2:22 pm.
By 2:45 pm, he was dead in my front yard.
Now, for some more history: Three weeks ago, when he was in the midst of our hedge trimming, he was taking a load of limbs to his ranch to dump them. A truck driving in front of him lost a large hay bale and our lawn guy crashed head on into it, destroying his small truck and giving him a concussion. He'd just returned to work last week, but was still in some pain.
From the report of my neighbor, who witnessed the death, he walked over to her as she returned home, then asked her if he could sit down, as his leg felt strange. He then stretched out on the sidewalk and had what now appears to be a seizure. He became cyanotic (blue) and died.
I am a healthcare professional. I know CPR. No one on the scene even attempted it. I feel so bad I wasn't here...my husband feels the same way as he's also a healthcare worker. I know in my head that there was likely nothing ANYONE could do (I suspect he had a huge brain bleed, similar to Natasha Richardson's), but my heart still wishes I could have tried.
Bob leaves behind an ex wife, 3 young kids, a SO. He also leaves behind his farm dogs, and a herd of cattle. I worry about the family, and I worry about the animals. Did anyone even tend to them last night or this morning?
We were Bob's first big client he had back in 1995. It's so ironic that we were also his last and he was working for us when he got the concussion.
I'm just so sad...so sad.
Thanks for letting me share. RIP Bob.
Cally