My Accident That Happened To My Left Leg

How I am doing 10/11/08

2008-10-11T14:19:00.000-07:00

Well right now, I am doing good my legs still has some pain from time to time but its gotten better. A little while back my leg had a horrible pain, I made an appointment to he the doctor I go to for orthopedics stuff. When I got there I had to get an x-ray first so we went to the x-ray room where they take x-rays. First you need to wait in the waiting room then you need to go into another room where you need to wait to get the actual x-ray. When I got the x-ray the were suppose to get an x-ray of my ankle because that is where the pain was, but they didn't they got an x-ray of my big toe on which they did the fusion on. After I got the x-ray I went to the doctor and he looked at my leg and told me that it was nothing to really worry about. So after a day or two my leg got back to normal, Well thats how I am doing now . Thanks for reading!

- Arthur The Amazing

Doctors Appointment 6/18/08

2008-06-19T13:21:00.000-07:00

When I went to the doctors at Schriners that I go to very rarely maybe like every 6 month. Well when I got there I had to wait for a little while in the waiting room then when I got to the room where the doctor was suppose to see my we waited again for a long time. When the doctor finally came I found out that he wasn't really the real doctor I am suppose to see but just his assistant after he was done the real doctor came in and then after a while he measured my leg and told me that my nerve grew about 8 cm that was really good news 8 cm might not seem like a lot but for a nerve its really good, a nerve grows about as fast as a finger nail. Anyway that was a bit of good news. Good bye for now

Arthur The Amazing

My Current State

2008-06-17T19:25:00.001-07:00

My current state, it is not easy, I just had a surgery on April 9, 2008. It was ok, but it all happened so fast first they had insert an IV which they did this time with no pain, they put this thing first which numbed that area in which they are going to put in the IV, the thing they put in first hurt more then the IV itself, when they put it in it hurt and when they injected the liquid it hurt more and when they inserted the IV it didn’t hurt at all, it felt a little weird but it didn’t hurt, after they did that I had to wait a little longer and then they took me, at first I wasn’t scared but then after they put me on the operation bed, I just freaked out. I just wanted to go back to the waiting room where they had a lot of stuff I could play with, like Video games, where I can have happiness on my face, not a scared look. I really wanted to leave, but what could I do they wouldn’t have listened, they have a job and that is what they do. Then they put in a line that they will use to inject the medicine that would put me to sleep. I asked the person that is suppose inject the medicine into me to tell me when he is going to inject it into me, and he didn’t or maybe he did but I really don’t know cause I was just really relaxed because of a liquid the put in me before they took me to the operation room, I really wanted him to tell me but he didn’t. Anyway after he did that I just blacked out. After that I just woke up and I was in a room where I started out before the surgery. After that everyone that happen quick also, they made me get dress and then they took me out in a wheel chair to my car where I just sat, I was very sleepy and my throat was scratchy, I had to drink water, but it didn’t go back to normal till the end of the day.

Right now I am doing ok and I am also on crutchs they aren’t hard to use but I don’t like using them cause they are a pain in the butt. There are many things I can’t do because of my crutchs but over all I am ok. Well that is my current state!!!!

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Arthur the Amazing

Before and After

2008-06-03T22:36:00.003-07:00

When I finally got home and I was happy there were allot of things that happened from then on that I would just like to forget about and I have and that is why in this post I will just skim through the events that happened from the time that I got home from the hospital. Well first was I just did nothing every day I went to sleep and the next day I would get on my crutches and go with my Dad to his job but I was bored most of the time I had doctors appointments some times the Doctor would tell me things that I didn't want to hear but I just sat there and pretended that it didn't hurt me but really deep deep inside me I was falling apart that when I get home I would get very depressed that I would go to my room and cry for a while and I would just ask god "Why me, Why me" over and over I would ask him, then I would think very hard to maybe find a reason he let this happen to me I just don't think that he did this to me I think that it was the devil and God let this happen to me to teach my something, I would think that maybe I have committed some sin for this to happen to me but I just didn't know. There was once a time that I went to a Doctors appointment and he told me that I would never be able to run and that I would be better off with a prosthetic leg, he told me that if I had a prosthetic leg that other kids wouldn't notice and that I would be able to run and jump like the other kids. But I didn't want a prosthetic leg I knew that is wouldn't be the same I went home that day and cried for a while it really hurt me what that doctor said that I will never be able to run but didn't believe him and today I can barely run not very fast but a good jogging pace and I am very thankful to the Lord that he has given me that gift.
There were other times when I would get home from the Doctors appointments and I would be very happy because he would say something good like that I would be able to run or I would be able to walk soon or that my nerves are growing and I would be in a very happy mood like just recently I got great news that my nerve has grown 4 centimeters that might now seem like allot but 4 centimeters is allot for a nerve to grow that Doctor told my that I will eventually have feeling in the bottom of my foot not the best feeling but a protective feeling that means that I will have enough feeling to feel when I step on something sharp or something, he measured my foot like the amount it has grown I went there like 2 months before February like in December and he measured how much it has grown then but then he measured it yesterday February 13 and it has grown 4 centimeters that is a miracle and I thank God for his blessing on me

Arthur Tyukayev

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My Journy Home

2008-05-03T22:36:00.000-07:00

Well when we were done with the mall we got into the car a started to drive home I had to sit sideways across the car and the sun was shining onto my leg, so I covered it with a blanket. While we were driving home I looked around out of the window onto the nature of the outside, being stuck in a hospital all day looking out of the window onto the street you start to forget the beauty of it but anyway as we were going home I looked onto the top of some hills they had houses and other things. but then after a long drive we finally made is home when I got out of the car I got my chrutchs and went inside to meet not only my family but my Aunt and cousin and my Grandma and Grandpa and I was really happy and they were also the first thing I did when I got home was sit down onto the couch and just talk then later I went into my room my brothers had everything cleaned up so it would be good when I got home everything was in its perfect place. I was finally home and I was happy

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The Good News

2008-05-03T22:32:00.000-07:00

Well after a good amount of time I was getting more used to the little pouch of blood on my hip but from time to time the Blood would move around and that tickled my leg really really badly. Well after a while the Doctors once again drugged me and this time I knew when they actually injected the medicine so this time I actually expect to be knocked out unlike the time they drugged me for the skin craft. Well after I had fell asleep they started something I didn't know what they where going to do because they had drugged me before I could ask but after a while of my dream I had woke up but this time I was in my bethen Id but when I had looked at my leg this time it wasn't covered with the sticker but this time it was all dry and they had covered it with this yellow cloth which was stuck onto it, the actual spot where they took the skin from was all dry and looked like a red patch. Well then shortly after I had woke up the Doctors told me that I was able to go home on the following saturday that was the best news I had heard all day. So all I had to do is to wait for about like couple more days and I can go home. So to pass the days I did the same stuff I did everyone other day and the time pass quite quick and then finally that day has came and I had packed up everything we had brought with us and we got ready to go, We then went to the gift shop on the first floor of the hospital and got my doctors some cards and some sort of gift card to I think Sees Candies and then we got all of the stuff into the car my Mom told me that we can go to the mall cause they had a Lego Store there and so we said "Bye" to all of the doctors and then we got into the car and start to the mall, when we got there we parked and went in the mall was huge it was really big. We barely made it to the Lego Store we looked around and saw these little Lego Knights magnets and I got then they are really cool.

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Arthur The Amazing

My Skin Craft Surgery

2008-04-03T22:31:00.000-07:00

As time passed I got closer and closer to my big surgery and then the day had came when I had to get a surgery where the doctors would take some skin from my hip and put it on my wound well the day actually came I was very nervous and as time got closer the more nervous I would get but by that time nothing can keep me from getting more nervous even the pep talk from my parents, They would say that everything was going to be alright and I tried to believe it and the only thing that can make me believe is was the time when I wake from the surgery. So the day came and I woke up and they told me that I couldn't eat not even take my pills that I would take every morning so I had to wait till about 3:00 PM when the nurse came and took me to the operating room where they would give me the surgery, they took me to a room where I had to wait for like 1 hour before the surgery because they were preparing it but when they finally got me into the operating room they put me on the operating table then without me knowing they injected that sleepy medicine slowly I would become more and more knocked out the doctors told me after the surgery that I played a joke on the doctor that I pretended to be asleep but right before he was beginning to start I said "Ha Ha I am not asleep I got you" then they had to wait till I was asleep of course I didn't know that I played that little joke on the doctor cause I was drugged. Then after the surgery was done I woke up in my room and I was very sleepy so then I looked at my leg but I didn't see anything because they covered that spot with a clear sticker and on top of the sticker they put a cover so I couldn't see it but I still took a few peeks at it and it look very bloody it was like a pouch of blood and sometimes the blood would leek through the sticker and the nurses would have to put more stickers on my leg after a few more weeks my leg would start to heal and get use to its new skin and after it healed the doctors started to take out some of the staples only at the parts where I couldn't feel my leg on the parts where I could feel my leg they left the staples.

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My Time in a Santa Clara Hospital

2008-04-03T22:29:00.000-07:00

Well when I would wake up from the anesthesia I would still be very sleepy and I would doze off to sleep over and over again until I would finally awake. The one thing that I didn't look forward to the next day was breakfast because I never liked the food in the hospital it never fell onto my good side so when is became dark at the end of the day I never look forward to the next day I would always thing about it while I try to fall asleep and I was just sad, speaking of things that I thought of while trying to fall asleep I always thought about what happened to me on the faithful day of July, 4 2007 and I would think about it and it was so scary to me that I would cry and while I did my Mom or Dad was there to cheer me up I am very grateful that they were there with me because I don't think I would have got through it without them. One thing that I would always do or try to do was write down what happened to me that day in the hospital here are some of the entrees that I wrote in my little journal.

"8/8/07- Today was a day of stomach pain, frustration, and depression. When I woke up in the morning about 10:30 am the nurse came and gave me my pills that I take everyday, I also had a dressing change on my leg, when I have a dressing change the doctors put me to sleep and in order to do that I have to have an empty stomach, but my doctor said that its OK for my to take my pills, I have to take Zinc, Tylenol, Multivitamin, Vitamin C, and stool softener for my bladder. Well when I woke up this morning I was feeling very nausea and I had very hard pains in my stomach and it continued for most of the day it really hurt and I think it was from the pills that I took on an empty stomach and it really hurt I cried a few times my Mom again tried to cheer me up but nothing can when you have a very bad pain in your stomach you can't really be cheered up it hurt really, really, really bad I couldn't take it a few time and I really cried the nurses tried their best to stop the pain with more pills but that just upset my stomach even more and it was horrible then my Mom gave me some tea(chamomile) that made it feel a little better."

That was one of many entrees in my little journal not much of my stay at the hospital was a good stay the only good thing about the hospital was lunch because I didn't eat the food that the nurses gave me I ate food from the Cafeteria I have a chicken burger and some curly fry it was really good and I enjoyed it allot that was one of the good things that I did at the hospital.

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My Stay at a Santa Clara Hospital

2008-03-03T22:26:00.000-08:00

When I got to the new hospital I was excited but when I checked out the TV that excitement went away very quickly because the TV is the only source of entertainment, but I later discovered that the television is the most boring source of entertainment so I had to get some other things to do, so I found some board games and I played some of those and then after I played them a few times I got bored. Then in a couple of day my mom found a computer that I could go on, so I went on that computer and played games on there and e-mailed some of my relatives so I can stay in touch. Every three days I have to get a dressing change and when they give me a dressing change my favorite doctors come to see me, their name I won' tell for their privacy but they use to come and give me my dressing changes which really hurt like i told you last time I got a dressing change they did it and it was really painful, so now they put me to sleep but when they do they have to we have to wait for a person who is certified in handling things that can put you to sleep so usually he and she would take very long to get there, but when they do they first take my vitals to make sure my blood pressure was good and then they would insert this this syringe and then they would insert this liquid that makes me very sleepy I feel sleepy then they insert a second liquid that puts me to sleep and then when I am asleep they would take off the wrapping and then they would take off the plastic tape that holds the Wound V.A.C in place and then they would clean the wound and put on new everything and they would do all of this when I'm asleep. Then when I wake up I am very sleepy then they would take me to my room and I would sleep until I wake up again.

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My Move to Santa Clara Hospital

2008-03-03T22:25:00.000-08:00

When they moved me to another room I was very happy because I didn't have to worry about not getting enough sleep in the morning and that is won't smell when the baby uses the potty and also the TV was closer to me and I can control it with this remote they gave me this is a good thing because the hospitals these day are very boring and the TV is the only thing that anyone can do or read books but you can't read the whole time you are there. Then when they moved me to another the TV was from the 80s but still it had the show I wanted to watch which was the show "Hell's Kitchen" the new series has stated and I wanted to watch it. Well for some time we I was waiting for this show to go on. I watched that whole series in the hospital and I even saw who won that show. There were allot of shows that I watched and then but mostly I liked to go on the computer and
e-mail all of my relatives because the phone didn't work there and I also liked to play games on the computer. Some times when the volunteers were there we would play board games and other fun things. Then one day while the nurse was giving me some of the pain medicine she told me that this whole hospital will move to a new one that has better TVs that are flat screen and they are going to have everything new even the supplies. She also said that all of the rooms are going to be private one that means that I was going to have a private room I was very excited. Then the time came and they began to move and they said that everyone was going to be on the news so I was very excited but then it came the time for my turn and all the news people were gone so I wasn't very happy for a while but when I got to the hospital I got excited very fast because the hospital was very big and everything was new and very cool and as soon as I got there I checked for any channels that I would have like but nothing really pop up and I wasn't very happy

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My Hospital Stay 3

2008-02-03T22:24:00.000-08:00

When my Mom told me that I had to go to a Hospital 2 hours away at first I didn't like the idea because I had beginning to to get use to this hospital but then they told me that the hospital was bigger than the one I'm stay so I went along with the idea because I was getting very sick of sharing rooms with other people because the other people I was with were always weird except the kid that I was with in the Morse hospital but anyway I then waited for the ambulance came to take me to the other hospital the first time I saw the medic from the ambulance he looked mean and there one of the medics were mean for a moment but when we got to the ambulance he gave me a movie to watch while we were driving to the hospital the movie I still remember what it was called it was "The three Musketeers" it was a good movie and it made the time fly while we were driving then when the movie ended the Medic showed me something very cool he showed me gold coins worth $ 400 each and he had like 10 of them so he was very rich. Any way when we got to the hospital it look OK then when we got inside that is when I really liked it because it was really big and they put me in a huge room but it wasn't a private on because the hospital wasn't big enough to have private rooms but it did have a great Computer to go online with and e-mail people but I didn't start getting out of my bed and on the wheelchair for a while because I didn't feel good and I was scared but when I did I got use to it and stared to get out of the bed a little more and then I felt better the TVs in this hospital were from the 80s but they still worked and they had the same channels as a regular TV has and it was still OK. The hospital had allot of volunteers to keep you busy. When I woke up had to eat a very disgusting breakfast and then had to take 3 pills which were: Zinc which was one of the most nastiest, Multivitamin which was also nasty, then there was Miralax. Then I had to eat lunch then dinner and then and then go to sleep. But some where in the middle of my busy schedule I go on the computer and play my video games that the hospital gave me to borrow. And also when I was there I saw allot of movies. And while I was in the hospital I missed Romans wedding but my uncle made me a video so I got to see some of the wedding and it looked pretty cool. Any way the only reason I had to go to this new hospital is because they had the doctors who could do the surgery that they were suppose to take muscle from my stomach and put it into my leg, but when I got there the doctors who were suppose to do that surgery said that the muscles were going to grow back themselves and that all I had to do is wait for the muscle to grow back and then they would do the skin craft and then I would be able to go home which made me very excited. When I first got to the hospital there was no one in my room with my but then they moved a teenager into the same room as me but I think he was the worst room mate I ever had at night if he couldn't sleep he would talk to his dad and you don't even wanna be there after he uses the restroom because you can die from the smell thats why we went on the wheelchair every time the kid went to the restroom. Then while we were there we kept asking the nurse if we could move rooms and one day the nurse said that we can so we went to a room with no one there so for a little while I had the room to my self but then the head nurse came in and told me that we had to move because a person with cancer had to get a private room because she had a weak immune system and she had to get a private room so I told the Nurse that I don't mind moving but I don't want to go back to the other room I was in so she said that there was a room open but it had a baby there so I had to choose between the baby or the teenager so I chose the baby because the baby doesn't smell as bad so all my stuff was moved to the new room.

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My Hospital Stay 2

2008-02-03T21:40:00.000-08:00

Well when I woke up I had no idea were I was because when I went to sleep I was in the emergency room and now as I lay in this bed and look around I see allot of smiling faces looking at me, this made me feel a little better from all the misery I have been through. So as I lay there feeling a little better I am still a little sleepy because from all of the experiences I had with Anesthesia whenever they put me to sleep I always woke up still very sleepy so I lay there and then I fall asleep again and I wake up because I had a dream and as I wake up I mumble a few words, I woke up I saw allot of people around me mostly my uncle and other people I know then I watched a few hours of TV and the hospital was very boring but the only fun I really had was when the nurse gave me a video game system, they had allot of movies and allot of video games. It wasn't to long before we all heard from Kaiser but when you here from a hospital you expect good things but this wasn't good news. When I had this stay at UCD I had begone to get use to the new home I was going to have for a short while, Kaiser called and they said that they didn't want to pay for my stay a UCD but we all know of you don't have health insurance its going to cost allot of money to stay a UCD they told me that they have to take me to a Kaiser hospital or we'll have pay for our stay at UCD but that would be allot of money. So when the morning came so did that ambulance that was going to take me to my new home which was going to be Kaiser Morse then they put me on the cart and then on the ambulance and then we were on the way to Kaiser Morse when we got to the Kaiser Morse they took me to the Pediatric center were I had to share a room with another kid. The only good thing about that hospital was that they had Nickelodeon on their TVs and for a while I had a great time. Then one day the doctor came and said that the need to look at my leg and to make sure they know what they were dealing with so later that day the doctors came back and took me to a different room were I thought they tortured me in way they call a dressing change but I called it pure torture. What they did in that room I can tell you all but trust me it hurt really bad. First they took of the dressing which is like a big plastic sticker which the put on my leg to prevent infection it was pretty easy when they put it on but when the take it off it hurt really bad. Then they had to clean the wound, in order to do that they pour water on my foot which I bet went into each of the little place that it can go into the pain was so bad that I cried like a little child even as I type this the pain comes back to me in many way sometimes I can feel that pain over and over again and you don't even know how bad it could of hurt unless you were there on that bed which I was on, or in that room which I was in the pain was so bad I think I was screaming and that half an hour I bet no on in that hospital slept. Then when you think their done but they have one more thing they got to do before they can wrap up the foot and leave me alone. Then later that day they gave me my food I should have said more about the food but let me tell you from 2 months of experience hospital food it the worst food you can ever taste that is why I'll never eat hospital food again. After they did the dressing change the doctor later came back probably the next day and said that my food it going to need more muscle before they can cover it with skin, he suggested that we do a muscle craft(that is were they take a little bit of muscle from your stomach and put it into your leg), but he said that he wasn't experienced enough to do this type of surgery. So they said that they will have to send me to Kaiser Santa Clara which is at least two hours away from where Sacramento.

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My Hospital Stay

2008-01-03T21:37:00.000-08:00

When we got to the dock we stopped and immediately my uncle and the driver went to get the people that work at the lake and either they or my cousin Roman called the Ambulance, I think they both called and anyway the Ambulance got the in about 15 minutes and they told me that they were gonna need to put some pressure, but then they look at the leg and they figure with some miracle my leg isn't bleeding and no blood is coming out of my leg I think that it was Gods work doing that because even if I lost allot of blood I didn't loose as much as I would with out Gods help, "Praise God" for his help in everything even now as I type this I can see Gods help every were. Anyway as I wait for the Ambulance to arrive I think about my future everything that might happen I thinks about am I ever going to walk again, Am I going to have foot. Also as I sit in the back seat of the boat I pray for Gods help to get me and my parents through this actually I thought that God was just going to heal my leg and that its just going to be back to normal again I begged God for this miracle, but as you all know this didn't happen to tell you the truth I don't think this every happens but maybe there is some one who can tell this story not now, not here, not on this blog, but somewhere else. Anyway I pray to got and every other second I look at my leg to see if his miracle happened but no. At this moment the driver is half past out. Then in the distance I hear the loud cry of a siren and then I see many people coming towards the boat. When the Ambulance got to where we were they quickly jumped out and ran to me they started to lift my leg this didn't hurt as they lifted it they put it into a cardboard box thing and wrapped it around my leg. As they are doing this I feel so relieved that they are here and I ask them if I can just close my eyes and go to sleep I just wanted to get to the hospital and get through this horror but they said "No" in a calm voice because they said that they would have to ask me allot of question, But I'm glad I didn't go to sleep because they said that a helicopter was coming to get me and take me to the first of four hospitals I am going to stay at. While we wait for the helicopter to get here and take me to the hospitals, they put me into an Ambulance and he they prepare to for the hospitals they: Put an IV into me which is like a small shot that stays in your skin so they won't have to give you shot over and over again to tell you the truth this shot was the only pain I felt so far, then they put a Neck-brace on me because they thought that my neck was broken but it wasn't. Then after this long wait the helicopter finally came to take me to UC Davis I was quite excited because that was my first helicopter ride " Something good came out of this Horror after all". When we got to USD they immediately put me into the emergency room were I Suffered for the next maybe 10 hour because I couldn't drink or eat and boy was I hungry then they had a Neck-Brace on me with it on I couldn't move my neck I kept telling them that my neck isn't broken but they didn't listen. Then after maybe 5 hours of waiting the finally to me into a surgery room and a very kind doctor by the name of Brad Yu fixed my leg this surgery later I found out took 9 hours long, when I finally woke up from the sleeping medicine I was in a room which I had no idea where I was.

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My Horrible Accident

2008-01-03T21:35:00.000-08:00

Hi my name is Arthur Tyukayev and this is my story

It all happen on that faithful day on July 4, 2007. My relatives were all going to the lake which every year we go to, my uncle
has a boat the and we all go on it for a ride, but one time I went for a ride. It sounded like any ride I been on with my cousins, but one thing happen that would change my life maybe not forever but for a very long time. It happened maybe around 3 o'clock we were all swimming in the lake and I went to the front of it and started to hold on to the front of it and before I know the boat starts to go forward and I'm still hanging on to it and as I hang on to it the boat it moving forward and as I was holding allot of thoughts are going through my head at this exact moment some of them were if i was going to live, at this moment I didn't know that the propeller of the boat was going to cut open my foot or that the propeller it going to break almost all the bones, nerves, and tendons in my foot, No the only thing I am thinking about at the at moment is "Am i going to live". So as I hang on to the boats front I hear my cousins screaming to the driver of the boat( For the security of the driver I will not say his name). "Stop the boat, Stop the boat" and then I recognize the voices as my cousins. Then the boat that I am holding on turns as it turns it makes me loose some of me grip at this point i am holding on with my fingers and then with my middle finger and pointer finger then my pinkies and then I fully loose the little grip I have and go straight under the boat and as I lift back to the surface of the water my leg feels really numb, but I feel no pain whatsoever only numb and then the boat that I was on turns around and i get in at this point I look at my leg and see how badly my leg is cut and how badly traumatized and that minute I scream but I didn't cry I tried but at the end I couldn't get a tear out of my head. The driver immediately took me to the shore were my family was having a picnic and all the kids got off and the driver and my uncle and me we all went to the dock.

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