Comments on: An Atheist’s Concern

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:16:51 +0000

For the curious, my friend Nick is back up in the Seattle area. His hands are both doing much better. He’s had a couple more surgeries and I believe has at least one more to go. Looks as though the reattachment of the two fingers on the left hand has taken, so they should be ok. The right hand is still a mess, and will be until finger transplants are invented.

Still and all, he’s doing quite well, despite now being burried under probably about $400,000 in medical bills. Gotta love health care in this country.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:24:39 +0000

Yeah, the most recent news is that my friend is going back up to Seattle today, which is way too early. He should stay in Vegas to continue with the doctors he’s already had, since he needs more surgery. But, oh, well. On the plus side, it sounds like the reattached fingers are doing fine, the swelling he had is way down and he’s actually getting the chance to get a shower today, which he hasn’t had since he’s been so messed up.
On the other hand, he’s still minus three fingers on his right hand, which blows, but you know what? Given that we can already do face and arm transplants, I give it only a matter of a few years before one way or another he has functioning fingers on that hand.

By: Zacharias

Zacharias — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:48:18 +0000

Good news!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:52:18 +0000

Well, some slight good news. Apparently my friend is concious and talking (at least as much as he can through the morphine). Also, it sounds like the damage to his left hand wasn’t as bad as previously reported. The ring-finger and pinky were both servered and have been reattached. The rest of the fingers on that hand weren’t harmed. We’re still waiting to hear if he’ll be able to use what fingers he has, and to hear if the reattachment of the severed fingers will take.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:51:32 +0000

I think the first case yo’ure right, just thank them for their concern. It’s never a bad idea to turn down help, even if you’re not completely convinced that that help will actually, well, help.

Seems like a good thought, so in response to your last sentence; thank you for your concern.

And, yeah, at least he’s alive. I’m hoping to get up to Vegas to see him next weekend. Not, admitedly, the way I’d planned to have my first-ever weekend in Vegas…

By: Zacharias

Zacharias — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:56:34 +0000

@Chris:

I think the first case yo’ure right, just thank them for their concern. It’s never a bad idea to turn down help, even if you’re not completely convinced that that help will actually, well, help.

In the second instance why not just say something to the effect of “I certainly hope they will be okay?” Best not to further upset somone going through a hard time by attacking their beliefs, you know?

@Chris: I’m glad to hear your friend made it through the accident. Better to be banged up than dead. My prayers will be with him, whether or not you or he belives it’ll do any good

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:10:56 +0000

You know, on a side note, this brings up the question of what I’m supposed to do when someone says, “I’ll pray for you”, on a context such as this, or if someone asks me to pray for someone who is injured. What’s the right way to handle those two things? Clearly with the first, I just say, “Well, I appreciate your concern”, but the second is trickier.