The accident happened in St Quentin, New Brunswick. Which is a very small town not very close to much. We were informed that Jonathan had his a hard patch of snow left by the plow that he had not seen due to snow blowing up from my Uncle's snowmobile who was travelling in front of him.
When his sled had hit the snow it stopped dead and Jonathan hit the windshield and flew 200- 300 feet through the air before landing on the ground. My uncle turned around to watch in horror as he was flying straight upright through the air, nothing he could do to stop him.
The ambulance arrived on the scene 1 hour later and rushed him to the local hospital which than rushed him to Edmunston Hospital. Edmunston was the nearest hospital that was better equipped to handle an accident of the sort and was located 1 hour away. We were told Jonathan was unconscious from the time he made impact.
Fast forward to 7pm that evening when we finally got word from the doctor at Edmunston. He told us that Jonathan had no broken bones but suffered brain trauma and he was be transferred to Moncton City Hospital as soon as he was stabilized as they have the only neuro-trauma unit in the Maritimes.
Brain Trauma? So much for just broken bones. I completely lost it, brain trauma is the worst possible thing that could happen, how can you come out of brain trauma, and if you do what are the chances?
Well at 4 am in the morning he finally arrived in Moncton. We first heard of the accident at 1:30 pm and had to wait until 4 am to finally see him. Those were such horribly long hours. The doctor came in to talk to us and told us that his injury was very very severe, he must have repeated this 5 times and I just kept thinking shut up he will be okay, he has to be. From this moment on I despised this man, even if he was going to help save him. He told us Jonathan had a bleed deep within his brain, and due to this there was nothing they could do for it. He also said his femur was fractured in 3 places, which we later learned was 4. So how is it possible that the hospital in Edmunston missed this? It is after all the largest bone in the body.
After hearing the news we got to see him, and this was by far the most frightening thing I have witnessed. There was my brother, all 6 ft 2 300 lbs of him laying in the bed hooked up to every monitor and tube you could imagine. There were constant beeps and alarms and his chest would move up and down to the rhythm of the ventilator.
We were told these next few days were crucial and that only time would tell what would happen.
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