Aaron Hospitalized My nephew, Aaron, was in a serious accident while driving back to school in Rolla from a visit to his grandparents in Kansas City, last night. The accident occurred five minutes from Raleigh. It was a one car accident. His car rolled. Aaron was life-flighted to University Hospital in Columbia. He has three broken ribs, a fracture of his thoracic spine and multiple abrasions and lacerations. He lost a day and cannot remember the accident or being flown to the hospital...but, when the doctor was assessing him and asked him to count backwards from 100 by sevens, he was able to spit them out in lightening speed, leaving the doctor open mouthed as he himself quickly tried to do the mental math to see if Aaron knew what he was saying. Obviously, that doctor didn't know much about our Aaron (the Pi Guy, himself)!...Aaron could be unconscious and still able to calculate math problems faster than a computer!

Aaron is able to move all extremities and still do math at the speed of light. He was to be fitted with an upper body brace today and they are thinking at this point that he will be able to get by without surgery. We all would appreciate your prayers as Aaron heals. (Jan and Eric drove up from Texas during the night and Mom and Dad C (along with Grant) went up last night.)  ¶ 10/02/2006 07:17:00 PM