Oak Valley Resort #5...The rest of the story

So, Darren fell and dislocated his shoulder on a rather easy part of the slope after getting through the more challenging part...Kirk calls me up and tells me that they think he has dislocated it, but that they need to take him to the hospital for x-rays to confirm. The nearest hospital is ~15 minutes away and the ambulance had just recently left taking someone else so we would have to wait a little. I left our room and got to the clinic...Darren was in a lot of pain...the ambulance came and we jumped in it...Kirk was going to follow (there are many stories inside this story including the one of Kirk being lost with little to no cell phone, eventually leaving his car and getting in a taxi and then having to find his car later).

So, Darren and I arrived at the hospital. They had to do an X-ray which confirmed the diagnosis of dislocated shoulder. Then they asked him to lay on the gurney...he wasn't a fan of this, but once he got down he said that he actually had the first relief of the night. They decided to do this weight therapy, treatment thing...they tied a cloth around his upper arm and hung weights on it in an attempt for the weights to pull it back into socket (painful I know). They kicked me out of the ER at this point (which is amazing for Korea, because pretty much anyone is allowed anywhere). So, Kirk shows up about this point, without his car...he assesses the situation and sees that we will be a little while and decides to go find his car. He finds it and returns, right about the time the doctor comes out and says that they cannot fix Darren's shoulder here...we will have to send you to another hospital.

I went to tell Darren this and he was pretty depressed...he just wanted relief and was fairly confident that if someone would just fix his shoulder he would get relief. Anyways, we got into another ambulance (kirk following close behind) and went to the next hospital.

They took Darren away right away while I filled out paperwork. I know that I was already on edge from everything and it was now probably 12:30 at night, but the ER just about sent me over the edge. Bless all of you in the medical field. The ER was bustling with people we got all the paperwork filled out (with other drama that I can't include for brevity's sake...when this is already super long) and Kirk and I went back to find Darren. They had to do X-Rays again to make their own diagnosis. Then they said that they would put him out and fix his shoulder...

Just realize that all of the next events happen in the hallway of the hosptial in the ER. Darren is sitting on the gurney and they inject his will meds...the two doctors hold him as he falls over asleep. They then wrap a cloth around him and one doctor holds that from behind...while the other doctor takes off his shoe and using his foot as a brace on darrens underarms and starts pulling at Darren's arm and shoulder. I couldn't watch this part, but Kirk did...a few minutes into it I think I hear Darren moaning, Kirk reassures me it isn't, but as it continues he knows he can't deny it...so they give him another dose and then continue working on him.

A little while later they came and say it is fixed. They wrapped his arm up, which is another story, including side effects of the drugs and his IV being pulled out so there was a little drama there. All in all his shoulder was out for 3 hours, which apparently the longer it is out the more painful it get, which Darren can attest too.

We stayed at the hospital another 1hour and 1/2 until he was good to leave and then we had to find out way home...another adventure. We got back to our room at about 3:30 in the morning.

The end of the story...Darren's arm is much better! He is making improvements everyday. He is still very cautious with it and keeps it in a sling some and out of the sling some, but all in all he is doing very well. Thanks for following us on this journey and continue to pray for compelte healing!