Just heard the bad news that my former co-worker died last weekend after nearly two years of pain and suffering.
It all began when he was working on his car. Trying to repair the coolant pump, the rusted nut undid suddenly and caused a complex fracture in his upper arm. Directly send to the hospital he had a surgery to stabilize the fracture.
With the external fixation in place, the bone did not heal for quite a long time, after postponing several surgeries to remove the fixation, a piece of his hip was inserted into the upper arm to fill the gap in his bone destroyed by the fracture.
A pathological test to check for bone cancer send to a swiss laboratory was negative.
However, after some days alot pus discharged through the fixation holes in his arm, nearly causing a fatal sepsis.
The 70mm piece from his hip was completely decomposed in his arm...
After cleaning his arm inside out, the only option was to amputate the arm at the shoulder joint. A local specialist for such extreme fractures said he can save the arm, but this was too bold a statement he made and the arm was cut off eventually.
This events took place in nearly 2 years!
Now, with a good chance to get well again, my co-worker and friend was relieved of the pain he had for a long time.
Still in hospital, another pathological test was made, this time the laboratory found out the whole arm had bone cancer in an advanced stage, even spread to the lungs...
With a daily chemo therapy in intensive care, the docs had hopes to get rid of the cancer.
But today I was informed that he passed away last weekend, aged 48, leaving a wife and two pre-teen daughters behind.
I had to write this tragic story down, maybe just for myself, to realize that a dear friend and good colleague passed away way to young.
He always had stories about his exessive life to tell that would crack up everyone listening and was the funniest guy with the best practical jokes I ever knew.
Thanks for your time reading this...
Stay safe y'all.
It all began when he was working on his car. Trying to repair the coolant pump, the rusted nut undid suddenly and caused a complex fracture in his upper arm. Directly send to the hospital he had a surgery to stabilize the fracture.
With the external fixation in place, the bone did not heal for quite a long time, after postponing several surgeries to remove the fixation, a piece of his hip was inserted into the upper arm to fill the gap in his bone destroyed by the fracture.
A pathological test to check for bone cancer send to a swiss laboratory was negative.
However, after some days alot pus discharged through the fixation holes in his arm, nearly causing a fatal sepsis.
The 70mm piece from his hip was completely decomposed in his arm...
After cleaning his arm inside out, the only option was to amputate the arm at the shoulder joint. A local specialist for such extreme fractures said he can save the arm, but this was too bold a statement he made and the arm was cut off eventually.
This events took place in nearly 2 years!
Now, with a good chance to get well again, my co-worker and friend was relieved of the pain he had for a long time.
Still in hospital, another pathological test was made, this time the laboratory found out the whole arm had bone cancer in an advanced stage, even spread to the lungs...
With a daily chemo therapy in intensive care, the docs had hopes to get rid of the cancer.
But today I was informed that he passed away last weekend, aged 48, leaving a wife and two pre-teen daughters behind.
I had to write this tragic story down, maybe just for myself, to realize that a dear friend and good colleague passed away way to young.
He always had stories about his exessive life to tell that would crack up everyone listening and was the funniest guy with the best practical jokes I ever knew.
Thanks for your time reading this...
Stay safe y'all.
