Well I'm asking for prayer for my dad. He was run over by a truck literally. What follows is the email I sent to family and friends.
Please pray for my dad, Orlin Bestrom. Tuesday morning he was on the job at Pine Ridge Bible Camp and had just gotten out of a pickup truck. Evidently he had not put it in park but had left it in neutral accidently. It began to roll backwards towards a garage. He tried to get in the driver's side and when he saw he couldn't, he tried to push down on the brake with his hand. Somewhere along the line, he fell and the truck rolled up the side of his right chest, breaking ribs and that caused the lung on that side to collapse. As the wheel progressed it was rolling further onto his body and broke his scapula (sp?) at the base of the side of his neck. I'm not sure if that is "collar bone" or shoulder bone. Front I think. I'm not sure if it actually went over the side of his face. But his left eye is blacked and swollen shut. He has stitches in the back of his left hand and behind his right ear. He had a broken lower jaw just a little to the right of center and broken facial bones but I'm not sure which side. There are big patches of missing skin on his right arm and both sides of his face that has the skin all off.
He was so upset that the truck had hit the garage that he got up, walked around the truck to view the damage and then decided he maybe ought to lay down. Just then the camp maintenance man came along and called 911.
He is taking this just as you might expect, calling himself an old fool and making sure everyone knows it was all his fault. He has been talking a mile a minute the whole time. But has a lot of pain in his chest from the damaged lung and ribs. I don't know how he'll handle having his jaw wired if that means he can't talk or chew. You know that talking and eating are two of his favorite things to do. Then on top of that, his right shoulder hurts badly and so it hurts to move his hand. Naomi, his wife, said that she couldn't think of anything worse for him than to not be able to talk or move his hands because he moves his hands a lot when he's talking.
The hospital staff is amazed at how well he is doing and his good health, considering that he is 85. But at this time he is still in intensive care. His blood pressure was doing some odd things and they wanted him where they could better monitor it. Some time tomorrow he will have surgery on his jaw at least. There is a possibility of more surgery but I don't know what or when.
Naomi is holding up very well and wouldn't stand for me to spend the night with her. The camp director, Kevin Grifhorst, and my son Kevin spent the whole day with us at the hospital. Naomi's son Mark came for the afternoon and the pastor of West Cannon Baptist Church was there for a while.
We are praising God that he is doing so well and not hurt any worse.
I just talked to the nurse this morning and he had a good night and the surgery on his jaw is scheduled for 2 this afternoon.