DB ((hugs)) I have all faith that you will be happy and healed in no time.

Sounds like good news all around! :line:

DB, get well soon!!!

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Thanks Lilith and PF ... appreciate your thoughts. I tell you the truth, the love and support I've received from so many great people is very humbling and truly inspirational. For my Pixie family ... thank you all and God bless!

How is everyone doing?? I have been trying to keep up, but i feel bad for not posting my good wishes and such.

Anyway, please know i am thinking of you all often. *hugz*

I'm thrilled to say he came home Friday and doing fantastic (considering :rolleyes2 ) on the healing trail. He will be laid up for at least 4-6 months with the hips they tell him. The important internal injuries have had all that can be done, done, and the monitoring and therapy has been above acceptable. They want him to return to THEIR facility in Columbus for a final check-up in three weeks but his orthopedic therapy will be local.

Erok came home on Saturday and there was no doubt he was pleased to be get there. It is the only place where he is not in a kennel of some type or working with a handler, so 'home' is where he can be a dog and you can tell he is happy to be there. :)

This is a happy family that still is breathing a little deep.

*hugz PF* pleased to hear its going in the right direction!

sounds like good news for you both.
still sending those good vibes anyway.:) (((hugs PF and family))) (((hugs DB and family)))

PF, I'm so glad your son is home! It's a prayer answered. And, I'm happy for Erok, too! I'll bet they're both happy to be home again!

We'll keep the prayers going, though! Sounds like you son still has work to do and he probably can use a few prayers along the way!

I got here late, but I still have hopes for the best for all involved. I am glad to hear about your son PF, I do want to ask if there was any news of the other driver and her daughter. Hope they are well ok.

We are all happy that the occupants of the other vehicle was treated and released the same day. :wish:


...... But like anything the media covers, a few facts get missed or distorted. It was not a woman and her one year old daughter. It was a man, ... with a two year old boy. He was not making a turn with the car. Then dogs name is not Nick, it's Erok, and so on. The bottom line is no one else was seriously hurt and the only death was the cruiser.

What I said about Erok being happy to be back to his first real home was not a miss-statement. He has always done his job well of not being far from his master but now he tries to be literally next to him all the time. When ANYONE visits, he wants to be 'between' them and No.1 son, even the immediate family. Not in a threatening way, but nobody else is going to sit next to him. He use to be content to just lay in the same room but now he will be next to him. He definitely knows something happen and WILL stay close to him. LOL

Dogs are clingy like that.

But I'm glad things are otherwise working out well.

Dogs see their families as surrogate packs and pecking order is very important. That is one reason dogs attack babies. It's something I rarely see acknowledged.

The car was brought up to Cleveland this last week so No.1 son was loaded up to have a look yesterday. I could tell it registered more than I had anticipated. After thinking about it, what did he have to reference anything to. It was a split second flash.... he wakes up hurting a LOT and hadn't even seen the news photos. A father knows that look of stun when the sight of the cruiser struck him and that pause. :yikes: He "wouldn't bet anybody made it out of that".

I took some pics and looking at the straight-ahead and parallel wheel alignment, the distortion and displacement of the part in between is obvious.
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The drivers seat is squeezed down to the width of two pleats.
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There seems to be an alignment problem, but with the body and frame rather than the wheels.
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Today I had a chance to take some pics of a cruiser before 'modification' for comparison.