Scott’s Story

Site created on March 13, 2022

On Wednesday, March 9th Scott was in a snowmobile accident east of Ladysmith on the river.

He was airlifted to Eau Claire Mayo. He sustained multiple broken bones including T11-(burst fracture), C2 fracture, (hangman's fracture) splitting across C2 pulling bone back into spinal cord/ will need extensive back surgery, multiple rib fractures, has chest tube blood transfusion.

Since original evaluation, they’ve also found that he has a broken collar bone and thumb.

Newest Update

Journal entry by Dee Peterson

Scott had his gallbladder stent removal which was done through a scope in Rochester 3 weeks ago. He then had his gallbladder surgery done in Eau Claire last week. They couldn’t do it laparoscopically because of scarring and recent history of inflammation in his duodenum. He has a big incision now which needs to heal. This set him back again but is getting better everyday. He had an EMG on his brachial plexus injury which is severely limiting his left arm movement. The test did show some 
nerve healing. He still has no improvement in his deltoid and shoulder muscle but hoping that will come. We have return appointments in the fall to reevaluate.
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