SUV vs Bike accident

My dear brother Ron, I love you more than you know. The sorrow I feel right now watching you in this state is more than I can handle. Your accident happened just a little over a week ago. You were riding a bike (bicycle) with no helmet, no identification, in the middle of the night down a mountain road near our brother Jim's home on South Mountain in Draper, Utah. There are no lights on that road, no lights on the bike, when the SUV turned in front of you.

This happened early Saturday morning July 26, 2014. The authorities finally identified your body on Monday and called my brother Jim. I got a phone call in the middle of trying to cook dinner, my basement was flooding due to heavy rain and I had someone trying to find my house to pick up a few items, all at the same time. "Ron has been in an accident and is in critical condition in ICU," was the message on my voicemail from my brother Jim. I jumped in the car leaving the basement issue with my husband and kids.

When I arrived at the hospital in Murray, Utah, I walked in to see my sweet brother Jim by Ron's side. I had already started sobbing just as I pulled around the corner of 4500 south and State Street, near the hospital. I continued for a few minutes crying over the horrible state my brother was in. He was alive, breathing on his own, however his orthopedic injuries were critical and invasive.

This is so different than death. We have already witnessed death by experiencing both of our parents dying and seeing their bodies with no breath, no movement, no spirit. This is so different. He lays in bed, sweating, and looking so uncomfortable. He moves his right arm and both feet when he is awake. He isn't fully awake, he is sedated until he gets through the surgeries that are needed. Because of the movements and responses to commands (squeezing fingers, wiggling toes, giving a thumbs up) the doctors believe his brain was not damaged. There are no obvious signs of brain damage. However, because of an injury of an artery near the brain, we will not know until he is fully conscious if his brain is fully functioning.