Letter to the editor
Monday, Feb. 25, 2008
On June 16, 2007, my fiancé, James, was in a car accident in Freeport, Ill., on his way home from visiting a friend. He had a torn aorta, ruptured diaphragm, three fractures in his pelvis, three cracked ribs and his stomach was in his chest.. James had emergency surgery to repair his aorta and diaphragm, had a tube put down his throat to help him breathe, spent four weeks in the Intensive Care Unit, had a tracheotomy to replace the breathing tube and spent another three weeks in physical rehabilitation.
