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\"Terry
Terry Stauffer, a retired Aurora firefighter, suffered life-threatening injuries after a serious car accident. Photos by Erin Emery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The monster hailstorm, filled with vitriol, pounded on the car Terry Stauffer and his grandsons were in on a two-lane highway in Eastern Colorado.<\/p>\n

The wipers on his old Ford Escort clattered in rhythm, working futilely to clear the ice balls, which smacked so hard they cracked the windshield. In the backseat, Grady\u2019s voice trembled as he pleaded for his grandfather to please turn back.<\/p>\n

Stauffer thought turning back might be more hazardous, so he continued on until a pickup truck coming from the opposite direction hydroplaned on Colorado 71 and blasted Stauffer\u2019s little red car. Before impact, Stauffer, a retired Aurora firefighter, veered his car to the right so he, and not his grandsons, would take the brunt of the impact.<\/p>\n

Stauffer remembers none of it, but Grady, 11, and Gracen, 10, recall everything from May 29, 2018.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were just going up a hill and the hail was coming down and I saw a big truck sliding across the road,\u2019\u2019 Gracen said. \u201cWhen it was about to hit us, I shut my eyes and a little later, I opened them. Pa was going crazy and me and Grady were screaming, \u2018Help us. Help us.\u2019 \u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

\"Terry
Terry Stauffer, with his grandsons, Gracen and Grady.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Recovering after a bad accident<\/h3>\n

In the coming hours, days and weeks, Grady and Gracen\u2019s pleas were answered. First, a woman who had been driving a pilot car for an oversized load stopped and brought blankets to comfort the boys. Firefighters from the Limon Fire Department arrived on the scene, about 13 miles north of Limon. The fire chief demanded that Stauffer be airlifted by helicopter, and when the weather in Denver made it perilous to fly a helicopter, it was sent to UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central<\/a>, a Level I Trauma Center<\/a> in Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n

On arrival, it seemed Stauffer might have been headed for the Great Beyond. He had a torn thoracic aorta. Most people who suffer the injury die before they make it to the hospital.<\/p>\n

That wasn\u2019t all. Stauffer had a severe pelvic, hip leg and arm fractures; a brain hemorrhage; a liver injury; and severe facial and rib fractures. Southern Colorado\u2019s only Level I Trauma team went to work to assess the injuries, stabilize and hand Stauffer off to Dr. David Corry<\/a>, a board-certified vascular surgeon. Without immediate surgical repair, Stauffer\u2019s chances of surviving were slim to none.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first responders did a great job getting him here. The trauma team did a great job working him up and identifying his injuries,\u2019\u2019 Dr. Corry said. \u201cHe could not go on to heal from the brain injury and orthopedic fractures unless the aorta was fixed first.<\/p>\n

\"Terry
Terry Stauffer and his wife, Teena, and their grandchildren, Grady and Gracen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt is a very high-speed deceleration, where essentially your body stops but the aorta continues and your heart continues to go forward in that deceleration and you can tear the aorta.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Corry threaded a catheter the size of his pinky finger into Stauffer\u2019s groin to access the arterial system and to deliver a stent-graft, which creates a new stronger inner lining to the inside of the aorta – into position.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith a stent-graft, we are essentially able to deliver a seal to the leak of the aorta very quickly, all with few risks and without a major incision in the chest,\u201d Dr. Corry said.<\/p>\n

\"A
Dr. David Corry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While Dr. Corry worked to repair Stauffer\u2019s aorta, Dr. Peter Fredericks<\/a>, a board-certified orthopedic trauma surgeon, worked to stabilize Stauffer\u2019s fractured pelvis.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the first night, I put what\u2019s called an \u2018external fixator\u2019 on,\u2019\u2019 Dr. Fredericks said. \u201cWhen I first see a patient, I\u2019m trying to figure out where we\u2019re starting from, where we\u2019re going and figuring out a map of how we\u2019re going to get there because not every patient is the same.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Recovering in the ICU<\/h3>\n

After surgery, Stauffer went to the ICU. Grady and Gracen had been sent to a hospital in Limon. Grady and Gracen each got x-rays, which showed they were OK.<\/p>\n

After 23 years as a professional firefighter in Aurora and years as a volunteer firefighter in Calhan, where he lives, Stauffer lay in a hospital bed, still unaware of what had happened. Dr. Corry had told Teena, Stauffer\u2019s wife, that as far as he was concerned, the injuries to the aorta and the broken bones would heal. The wild card was the head injury, and it was far too soon to tell if he would suffer any lasting damage.<\/p>\n

In the ICU, Stauffer was a handful. A jack-of-all-trades, he had lived a life of independence and freedom and being in a hospital bed with tubes and machines didn\u2019t sit well. Stauffer was used to being outside. He\u2019d built his own house and barn, farmed fields of corn and wheat, and fixed anything mechanical. In all their decades of marriage, Teena never ever had to call a repairman to fix a broken washing machine or repair the brakes on her cars. Terry took care of everything.<\/p>\n

\"Terry
Terry Stauffer’s grandchildren were with him when a pickup truck crashed into them on a two-lane road north of Limon, Colorado.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t put any weight on both of my legs or my left arm. I was pretty much in a wheelchair until I got cleared to put weight on it and that was horrible for me because I couldn\u2019t do anything,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u201cI had to ring a bell to have someone come and help me. I lost my dignity, I thought,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

After six weeks at Memorial, Stauffer was taken to Craig Hospital in metro Denver to try to regain some of the independence he had cherished all of his life.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do remember having a lot of what I would call nightmares. They were dreams that would get me all messed up. I would think I was still back in Nebraska, where I grew up,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u201cEvery night I\u2019d go to sleep, and I would wake up all mixed up.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Going home<\/h3>\n

In mid-August, more than two months after the accident on the rural highway, Stauffer was able to return to his home in Calhan.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went up and helped pick corn this fall, and I\u2019ve tried to move snow,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

\"A
Dr. Peter Fredericks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At Christmas, he made a phone call to the driver of the car that hit him and told him that he forgave him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got to talk with him. My wife knew that I wasn\u2019t going to go after him. It was an accident and accidents happen. His tires were slick; his back tires were a little suspect, bald tires, but the hail had piled up and he hydroplaned and hit us.<\/p>\n

\u201cI called right before Christmas, and I know I made his Christmas by saying \u2018it is what it is,\u2019 \u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

Stauffer also went back to talk to the ambulance service in Limon and he thanked them for doing such a great job in taking care of him and his grandchildren.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of reasons that I\u2019m here today — Dr. Corry and Dr. Fredericks. Fredericks told me that everything aligned for me to have a good outcome. Everything fell into place for a reason and you know it was probably prayers and by the grace of God that I had the right doctors. \u2026 All the right people were there and the good Lord wants to keep me around a little longer for some reason,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

A team effort<\/h3>\n

Fredericks said that achieving positive outcomes, like the one Terry had, is the goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe time and investment in a patient like this is what really makes a difference,\u2019\u2019 Fredericks said. \u201cIt\u2019s a team effort and he wouldn\u2019t have had that outcome without everybody having that mentality that he will wake up, he will recover from the traumatic brain injury and he will walk again.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Dr. Fredericks has asked Stauffer to come back in a year for another checkup. Though he\u2019s still sore sometimes, Stauffer said he is lucky to be alive. He says that when he\u2019s saying goodbye to family or friends who are traveling by car, he always says: \u201cDrive safe.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Those words, he said, sound different to him now.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt means way more to me than it did. I truly mean that. I used to just say it, but now I really mean it,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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