Below are the 4 most recent journal entries recorded in Zack Whipple's LiveJournal:

Saturday, November 19th, 2005
9:44 pm	more bad news... So... I got a call from my mom today saying that my dad has to go back on the operating table. He has deteriorating brain cells and if they don't get them out then it will keeping killing off good brain cells and he will eventually become a vegetable and die. But if they take out to many brain cells then he could get brain damage as well. It just so happens that the bad cells are right around his brain stem too so it makes the surgery all the more scary. He’s scheduled for emergency surgery at 2am and their saying that it could take 5 to 10 hours because its such a risky surgery so I wont know anything until early morning... I don’t know how the hell I’m supposed to get any sleep tonight! I just hope everything goes ok... I don’t know how much more of this I can handle! On another note I waited all day to go to this really cool activity at the university rec. center. It was basically the only fun thing I was looking forward to doing this weekend. Seems how all of my friends are gone for the weekend and I’m stuck here all alone thinking about all the shit that’s going on right now. This day couldn’t possibly get any worse right? Wrong ... I walked my happy ass all the way over to the rec. center only to find out that this really cool activity went on last night!! While I was at work... nice huh? Just ad another thing to the craptastic weekend I've been having... no body is here this weekend! I feel so left out I feel like everyone is out having fun at home or at other colleges and I'm stuck here at lil old Ferris state university all by myself... god! I can’t wait until I get my car up here. Hopefully things will be more fun then. I never thought weekends at college would be this boring...where I really need to be is in Florida with my dad but I cant because my fsus teacher is a bitch and she wouldn’t let me take my exam early even though I know all the material and its only a one credit class,,, she says it wouldn't be fair to the other students... what other students there’s only 5 other kids inn the calls everyone else dropped her stupid ass class... GOD! I HATE COLLEGE!! Honestly if I would have known it was going to be like this I never would have came! But now I’m a complete ass hole if I leave and I will be considered a complete failure by everyone I know. So basically I’m damned if I do and damned if I don’t! grr! Well enough of my complaining for now I guess I’m going to TRY go to bed now seems how there nothing better to do bye for now... ~zack Current Mood: depressed Current Music: country (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
6:39 pm	good news so i got call today (nov. 16) from my mom she said that my dad moved his legs... he was tryin to push himself up in bed. hes still in a drug induced comma and his brain is till very swollen he has a tube in his head that is draining fluid out that seems to be halpin but we dont know for sure... theres still alot of blood in the fluid. i guess this is better than nothing i just widh he would get better already i dont want him to be like this! i think im goin to go insane if i kieep thinkin about this so thats all for now... bye bye Current Mood: sad (Comment on this)
Friday, November 11th, 2005
5:41 pm	Tragedy strikes!!! On Friday the Nov. 11th I got a call from my mom ... she told me that my dad was in a serious accident on I-75 and I was going to be flying down there that night because they didn’t know if he was going to make it. So my brother and I rushed to the airport and got down there as soon as we could the flight seemed to take forever!! This is what happened... He was taking his last load of stuff down from Michigan to Florida in our racecar hauler. Our hauler is equipped with air ride suspension on it. Which means that it can lower itself right down do the ground or jack itself up to 18 inches. It does all of this using airbags kinda like the ones you see on low riders today... Well, on the way to Florida the front passenger airbag blew out causing the truck to dive to the right, putting it in the ditch then the ground effects and the frame caught on the ground and caused the entire rig to flip end over end!~ The whole thing is controlled by air including the trailer hitch so when the airbag blew it leaked all the air out and when the truck was flipping the tractor part of the semi was ejected from the trailer giving it a catapult effect and causing the tractor to flip multiple times with my dad inside! Now... seat belts in a semi really suck and they don’t really expect anyone to flip over a semi... so when my dad started flipping in the semi he slipped out of his seat belt and hit his head on the roof which fractured his skull in four places and causing massive brain trauma he then hit his side on the steering wheel/ dashboard and broke four of his ribs, punctured his lung and diaphragm, ruptured his spleen and pancreas. He also broke his wrist and his leg. They took him by helicopter to Lakeland county hospital where he went through 4-brain surgeries, lung and diaphragm surgery and they removed two of his organs. 18 hrs of surgery total! He's in pretty bad shape! They said he had a pulse and was able to breathe on his own when he came to the hospital but he was unconscious due to the head trauma. But since then he has had all these surgeries and they don’t really know if he’s actually alive or if he’s just running on machines. They have him in a drug induced comma at this point because his brain is swelling and they want it to be able to heal without it having to worry about trying to fix the rest of his body. He’s in the intensive care unit right now and they have someone watching over him every minute of the day. My brother and I had to fly back up to Michigan on Monday because I had exams this week and he was worried about loosing his job because his boss is a total dick... Right now I’m just waiting to hear if anything changes I will be going back down there next week for thanksgiving break so hopefully he will be doing better! I just hate seeing him like that he looks so helpless and I’m used to my dad being such a tuff guy. This has obviously taken a toll on him and that’s what worries me... I don’t know what I would do without him. He taught me everything I know without him I would never be the man I am today. Not only is he my dad he’s my best friend too! I don’t know what to do!! Why does this kind of stuff have to happen?? I don’t understand! (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 10th, 2005
3:36 pm	me Recently I moved up to Ferris State University. It was Wednesday august 28th to be exact. That Friday my parents moved to Florida. I had known about it for about a month before I moved here. I couldn’t go because the scholarships I was given only apply in the state of Michigan. Since then I've met many new people and I am trying to have fun at college. However it seems that every time I start to get on top of things I get thrown back on my ass. It’s not very nice! My friends Jen and Amanda have really been helping me through things and that makes it a lil' better. (Thanks guys!) Well don’t have much else to write right now so bye for now.... ~zack Current Mood: lonely Current Music: lifehouse (Comment on this)