TBI and Death are REAL!
While I do not expect this event to be picked up in the local paper, I am reporting that Traumatic Brain Injury and Death are real and all around us.
Last night as I, my wife, and children were watching television before bed we saw siren lights in front of our home. Several neighbors had gathered around a firetruck and police cars.
We live in a gated community adjacent to a park. Apparently some young boys aged 12 to 17, two of whom were brothers, were hopping the wall from the park into the neighborhood. One fell to the concrete walkway on his head. Another ran to the guard gate to get help explaining that his friend fell. The boy gave the guard his home address which caused first responders to go to the wrong location. When they finally figured out the correct location and arrived to assist, the boy was not moving. His brother was found leaning over his motionless brother. He was dead.
Who knows if the death could have been avoided had first responders not been sidetracked to the wrong location? Whether the delay contributed to the death? It may have. But the stark reality of how quickly and easily life can be taken was made startling real for my young daughters, wife and me.
