- 2 weeks ago
On Feb 1st at 5AM, Savannah had an accident where she fell and cracked open the back of her head, getting rushed to the ER. This is the story.
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00:00and i remember thinking like am i dead like that was the first thing that went to my head for real
00:05i was like am i dead or am i dying all right filming filming i can't see ourselves because
00:13we're filming on the back of savannah's phone really impromptu youtube video especially for
00:18us not posting youtube videos now i know but um i felt like this was something kind of crazy that
00:26we needed to share about because it was just the weirdest freak accident that's ever happened to
00:33me at least yeah well and we're both but especially you are like so bad about posting on social media
00:38i shared about it on my instagram story and i was just blown away by the response um from people
00:45and friends just like concerned and like wanting to like hear more of the story and like um so it was
00:50almost too much like to post in instagram stories and stuff and like too time consuming so it just
00:54felt easier just like set the camera up we're in california right now because nashville got frozen
00:59over our house was like without power for seven days um and literally like zero degree weather it
01:05was just a nightmare for everyone living in nashville yeah so fortunately we had a friend in california who
01:10let us see at their house um so that's where we've been and obviously we're here with our five kids we
01:14made this like a just nice getaway vacation um so it just felt easier to set up a camera for 10 minutes
01:21and tell the story of what happened yeah versus uh i thought it would maybe even like therapeutic for
01:26you to yeah maybe like reassure she's kind of had like a ptsd i really think that she has like
01:32yeah i'm like for real i like have never really experienced being anxious like i am right now like
01:39i feel like i'm just so anxious walking around the house or like going anywhere i'm just like on guard
01:43of like if i could fall again or something's gonna touch my head or even just like i keep like replaying
01:49it in my head too because it was like probably the one of the scariest things besides like
01:55zealand's things that happened to him but for me at least it was like scariest thing that's probably
01:59ever happened to me um but should i just tell them a story should we just get into it i think so
02:05but wait this happened what two not even two days ago like 36 hours ago yeah yesterday morning yeah
02:12yeah yeah so it's pretty fresh yeah but basically i usually always like wake up to go pee in the
02:19middle of the night once at least and this was like my one wake up to go to the bathroom and reminder
02:24we're at our friend's house yeah and it's pitch blackout still and i had there was like a lot of
02:31questions of like did i eat good the day before do what did i have enough water the day before like
02:35stuff like that and like i like actually cooked a full-on meal the night before like yeah it's very
02:42just like typical day before like nothing i'm not like dieting nothing like that that was like going
02:47on um so i just woke up i remember i woke up right here on the bed and i took a sip of my water
02:53checked my phone for the time and it was like 4 58 um so like almost 5 a.m i like get up and i start
03:00walking to the bathroom right around here i go to the bathroom and i remember going to the bathroom
03:09pull my pants up and then i don't remember anything after that besides me being on the floor so i
03:14completely passed out um i don't know if i slipped i don't know if i fainted which is so wild i i've
03:22even like tried going and sitting in the bathroom and like closing my eyes and just being like
03:26tried to remember and i can't i like for the life of me i have no idea what happened i even like
03:33tried looking on the walls of like is there like a little bit of blood or like try looking on the
03:38ground like is there anything that i could have hit on the toilet you stood up no i know that's the
03:43thing is like i finished going to the bathroom it was like a really quick pee pulled my pants up
03:48stood up stood up yeah stood up pulled my pants up pants were completely on when i fell
03:53you know i didn't find her pantsless yeah um and then the next thing i know i literally it was
04:01maybe you know from where i was when i when i woke up it was maybe what two steps from the
04:06we probably just show them yeah right here um but the next thing i remember is the only thing i
04:12remember is is that standing up and then the next thing i remember is wake it up and i remember it
04:17just like pitch black and i remember thinking like i opened my eyes and i took like what i thought
04:24was like four or five really deep breaths like i and i remember thinking like am i dead like that
04:30was the first thing that went to my head for real i was like am i dead or am i dying and what is
04:35happening because why the heck am i on the floor like i don't i like it was just so strange and so i
04:40took like four really deep breaths and then all of a sudden i like started slowly coming up and
04:45realizing like oh i fell um so i i it did probably take me like a good 10 seconds to figure out i'm
04:52not dying i just fell and now i'm hurt and so i wake up and i'm like oh my head and so i went to
04:59feel my head and i could totally feel a giant hole in my head and i've never like broken a bone got
05:07stitches anything before so i just immediately knew like oh this is bad and i just like looked at my
05:11fingers and at that point did you come in and maybe turn some lights on i don't know but so i
05:19because at that point i could see blood on my fingers that's probably where i i probably met
05:23you at that exact moment yeah so i so funny enough this night savannah was sleeping in our bed right
05:29here and zealand and sunday came in our bed that night sometimes the kids just come in our bed
05:33and so i was like okay there's no room here so i went and go and slept in posy's bed where they
05:38left from i was like okay i'm gonna sleep in that bed i heard the boom um posy and i both heard the
05:44boom we heard a loud boom and i thought oh shoot one of the kids must have fallen out of the bed
05:47that savannah was in because it was kind of like tight so you went to go check out i would i would
05:50go check out this bed you were with posy in her bed i was with posy yes which is right next door
05:54um so i heard the boom came in here and i saw that both the kids were in the bed and it was a really
05:59loud boom but no one else woke up only me and posy um and again it's pitch black and both the kids
06:05are still asleep but you're not in bed and i'm like huh well no kids fell out of bed so i was
06:08kind of relieved i was like that was really not loud boom and where's savannah so i check on the
06:12kids i go and check on the other kid i go and check on everly um and she was all good and i'm like
06:17huh no no like no one broke into the house i come back in and that's where i see you standing in the
06:24bathroom uh because i'm like oh maybe she's in the bathroom i go so i could have been passed off for
06:28maybe a few minutes then yeah i mean it was maybe a minute okay it was maybe a minute but i don't think
06:34you're passing along maybe one two three minutes yeah but you're definitely that moment i came right
06:38here and that's probably why while you're passed out in the bathroom because then i went and checked
06:42everywhere else which again maybe a minute or two yeah came back in and i walk in and savannah's
06:47looking confused i'm gonna start shaking again she didn't but you're holding the back of your head
06:52and i see you remove your hand and the person that you say is i think i cracked my skull open
06:58and i'm like i'm so confused i'm like what do you mean and i see your hand covered in blood and i'm
07:03like oh my gosh so sorry i run to the look at the back of your head and i see the gash in the back
07:10of your head blood coming from it and i mean not to be morbid but i could see my skull see your skull
07:17like it was a big opening and so that's where um we just kind of like i didn't know what to do
07:23well and i because i i remember all this as soon as i got up and saw the blood i remember everything
07:30from there on out but i was i was like not well i remember i was like you called i when they got
07:39here my blood pressure was like crazy low well we laid you down and we started applying pressure
07:44to the back of your head and we called 9-1-1 um fortunately they showed up really quickly uh
07:51and i just i just tried like keeping it conscious and making sure you were trying to keep me awake
07:55because it was really hard for me to stay awake i remember it being really hard like like like just
07:59thinking like i have to stay awake until they get here you kept like kind of passing out like
08:03not you never actually passed out again but you're really white uh and i was like trying to i was
08:07trying to like engage with you in conversation like just making sure that you stayed awake and also
08:12keeping posy kind of out of the room because she was um there fortunately 9-1-1 showed up real
08:16quickly they took it did seem fast it was pretty quick i forget probably because the fire station
08:21right there um they checked your like vitals and yeah your uh was your blood pressure yeah do you
08:29remember what it was when when they were there with me was it i i i remember they did your blood
08:34pressure and you're really pale um and i think it was like i think i i it was all i kind of forget
08:43i think you're like 70 over 40 which is really low and i remember like i always try to gauge because
08:49we've had a few instances where we've had people over to check on zealand and stuff is i try to gauge
08:53like their professionals faces that's where i'm like you know i'm kind of looking at them because
08:57like i i don't know like what's happening i'm just like praying that you're okay and i and i kind of
09:01heard them like talking to each other like this is really low okay they're like is she and i remember
09:05them asking is she usually this pale and i'm like no like she's never that pale but you just
09:10obviously fell and busted your head like you're probably in shock and um so they instantly they get the
09:16stretcher once they put me in there i remember they did my arm again and they pulled me i could
09:21this when i was like starting to you know that he started giving me like an iv in there and i started
09:26coming back to life and he told me that i was 60 over 40 when he was checking me right now so i don't
09:31know if i dropped even more getting into the ambulance or what but yeah yeah i was right around
09:35there then i looked that up and that's like so low right yeah i think your body i think whenever you
09:41hit and maybe what we don't know is we don't know why she either slipped or passed out
09:45slipping makes more sense or slipping or bumping into a wall and tripping and then i'm just
09:51forgetting that part because you see to me fainting makes more sense only because there's nothing and
09:56i've like replayed this over there and i've even like i'm looking over there because the bathroom's
10:00over there so i'm trying to like replay this and i'm talking to you guys but there's that there was
10:04nothing on the floor it's not like it's like super slippery over there um but it is really hard tile
10:10which it's hard tile but i just like yeah i guess i just have no idea how i would have slipped fell
10:16and forgot about it that's the part that we don't know you know which will probably i don't know we
10:20we're just gonna monitor the situation i know but then i almost i hope that it was a slip i hope it
10:26wasn't a faint the only things that i can think of is like in high school i remember i would get
10:30i would i probably faded a handful of times maybe five times or something during high school
10:35whenever showers would be too hot i remember like my mom had caught me that i would faint either
10:41in the shower a couple times or like coming out of the shower a couple times and i think it even
10:45in our marriages been a time or two where i've gotten in a shower very light-headed you've never
10:49fainted that's where i'm not overly concerned and thinking it's like because you've explained that
10:56to me and i've seen it where she hasn't passed out but like there's been plenty of moments where you
10:59sat up too fast this just makes zero sense to me but yeah but yeah yeah so that's the part that we
11:04don't know but they get you on a stretcher um get you out of here real quick they tell me what
11:09hospital we headed to um i instantly um i gave i gave you your phone before you left i put it on
11:16you on the stretcher um and then i instantly get all the kids up it's like 5 20 a.m at this point
11:22still dark outside getting them ready real fast you know they don't really know what's going on i'm
11:27just kind of we're getting in the car we're gonna go see mom at the hospital if you know everybody
11:30asks it's like she slipped and she hit her head it's like i don't i don't know how she is
11:34and i'm kind of i text you before we head out um just asking like if you're okay but they're
11:38running all the tests so i she doesn't text me back for like 20 30 minutes um so if it's already
11:44bad at texting understandably yes but obviously on top of like everything going on so in my head i'm
11:50like okay we're just i'm waking everyone up we're going immediately yeah yeah i just my head just goes
11:57to the worst because like i send you off and it's like not a good situation to send you off and
12:01like i wanted to be in there with you but i got five kids here like i wish i could just you know
12:05there's just you gotta get to the hospital and get as good as you can but i don't know what i'm
12:08driving to right you know i remember i just remember that drive like playing in my head like
12:11you fell into a coma there's swelling going on in your brain there's internal bleeding like
12:16obviously i can only see the outside i don't know how bad the inside was so i was just like i'll
12:20just praying praying praying and i was just i just remember praying like super specific prayers
12:24like god jesus i just pray that her brain is not doesn't have any swelling her brain doesn't have
12:30any damage that she does not fall into a coma that her brain is totally healthy like exterior
12:35wise that's okay like they can stitch you up they can but internally like i just pray that your brain's
12:40okay right it was right there we could show you guys a scar you can look at my instagram um but we
12:47get to the hospital they run all the tests on you i mean they had to have you do the pee test
12:50you peed in a cup they take your blood then i did a ct scan i did an x-ray
12:55they did everything yeah as far as like there's nothing that they could see that was yeah no no
13:02tests that's why she might have fainted they were you know we didn't do like all that but like all
13:05the tests to make sure that like she's okay now yeah and yeah there's no swelling praise god there's
13:10no swelling there's no nothing beyond could have been a lot worse needing seven staples which honestly
13:18especially after reading some of your guys comments on instagram maybe she needed a few more staples
13:22because whoever stapled it might not have done the best job so now we're just monitoring that and
13:26but it staples hurt she took her first shower today and that was scary that was scary but it looks like
13:32it's healing good yeah i got to look at it and i think it's healing good despite maybe not the best
13:36staples but but and obviously a concussion when i get the state i need to get the staples taken out in
13:42like seven days so when i do i'll make sure that they check in that it's healing but praise jesus
13:48she's okay uh because he has been the most amazing husband in the whole world and best at
13:54because he's just like doing everything and he's so sweet of course they're the best um but we are
14:02just taking this that's all that we know this is like i said 36 hours ago even like i'm having a
14:07little bit of ptsd of just like waking up and going to the bathroom i mean it's only been one night so
14:11far but he literally held my hand and walked me to the bathroom and almost sat with me while i peed
14:16and got up because i was so scared so i feel like you're gonna be doing that for the next few
14:21nights nights until until i just start crawling by myself to the bathroom at night good marriage
14:26practice for us this is and sickness and health for better for worse um and yeah she definitely
14:33has like i think almost like the biggest thing right now is like the ptsd mode yeah like last night
14:38last night i'm putting all the kids to bed and i guess i'm putting like the last kid to bed
14:41savannah like comes into the room she's like can you come in bed with me now and and like pray with
14:46me and hold me and she was just like kind of shaking just yeah nervous like she i'm not shaking
14:52for many reasons besides just like anxiety which you never get yeah so i think you just have a
14:57understandably yeah it was a really traumatic moment for you like you said you thought you almost died
15:01so yeah um and also the kind of the unknown of like why she passed out so i think there's like a
15:07hesitancy of like yeah is this just gonna happen again as we as we talk she's like i'm scared like
15:12it might happen again kind of thing because there was no sign of it there was no sign if it was like
15:18a thing there was no sign so that just scares me yeah and i feel like if i slipped i would have
15:23remembered what i hit or something you know you probably remember the slip but also so that's just
15:28where i'm confused but we we think it's a thing but thank you jesus that i'm okay and
15:33i have you who's just amazing i'm the best dad and the best husband so i'm super grateful but
15:40and i'll be good and i think once it's like healed i'm not gonna have any more anxiety but i think it's
15:45just like so tender right now that i'm like so nervous if like if i were to fall again that it
15:50would just be like so bad you know yeah that's savannah's super mom and she just recovered
15:56and is recovering so well and um obviously she's taking it very easy compared to how she usually is and
16:02um me and the kids are stepping up as much as we can to make sure that she's taken care of the kids
16:07are all the kids are all being so helpful and sweet they know what happened to mom and we're even like
16:12at this point it's like we're joking with her at times even though it's only been 36 hours but
16:16every time i go pee they're like oh be careful mom even though sunday's like be careful mom we were
16:21doing charades like the the day after it happened and we're like in the yard and like some of the kids
16:25are like who am i whoa oh i'm gonna be like the joke of it's kind of like how our family like
16:32coax with trauma is like humor sometimes um just because we know she's okay yeah and in jesus name
16:38we're gonna believe in full healing with just a wound that is uh just a little scar and nothing wound
16:45and that this will never happen again but man i was scared okay well that's that's the story that's
16:52the story all right hey we love you guys thanks for uh thanks for tuning in for tuning in and thank
16:56you thank you everybody whether you're a friend or family or just even following us who've reached
17:00out and been praying i mean this was the best case scenario so like literally we can feel all the
17:05love yeah literally as i sit in savannah off in the the ambulance my prayer was that god i pray it's
17:11just like stitches in a concussion like that is the best case scenario right and that's what it was
17:15um stables and concussion but yeah um thank you guys for reaching out thank you guys friends who've
17:20sent stuff to the house that were saying that and all the things we love y'all uh and if we haven't
17:24gotten back with you then we will shortly leave them all right we'll uh see y'all next time bye guys
17:41okay actually put your head down a little bit okay i'm gonna numb you out here okay okay nice deep breath
17:51good job honey good job honey
17:59okay that wasn't bad at all that was one side we're gonna do the other side now
18:04big actually one muscle so
18:06good honey okay you ready well i think so i haven't done anything good sorry oh jeez let me see if this
18:18one hurts too okay because that was the very bottom ow okay i'll give you some more numbing notes okay
18:23one more sorry it's all right you're done love you're good i'm done you're done okay how do you do it
18:39oh you did it all right not too bad
18:43you
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