RECOVERY … Bridon Bible (left) and his wife, Shania Bible (right), are finally home after her husband’s motorcycle-car crash on July 21 outside of Bryan. He was hospitalized for seven days following the accident.
By: John Fryman
THE VILLAGE REPORTER
john@thevillagereporter.com
The odds were definitely stacked against Bridon Bible as the Bryan resident was fighting to survive following his serious motorcycle-car accident on July 21.
It was on that summer day when Bible was heading home and when he reached the intersection of State Route 15 and County Road G, his life would horribly change.
“I was coming back home from my Uncle’s house on State Route 15 when I was coming up on County Road G, and there were two vehicles that pulled up to the stop sign,” said Bible.
“The first vehicle was a black SUV, and they had time to pull through, and there was a red vehicle, which it ran the stop sign, and it rolled up there and didn’t stop.”
He was already there at the intersection where his motorcycle eventually plowed into the side of the red vehicle, thus he didn’t have time to react after his head had hit on the passenger side window.
“I got knocked out,” he said, following the collision. “I flipped onto the windshield at some point and flipped off the car. I woke up on the side of the road.”
A passerby who happened to come up to the accident scene assisted Bible before he was initially transported to Parkview Bryan Hospital by the EMS.
“I tried to move, but I couldn’t move my whole left side,” said Bible, “I seen my arm was covered in blood and my left leg was out to my side.”
He grabbed his cell phone and called his wife, Shania Bible, who was returning home from McDonald’s in Bryan with their three children, Nevaeh (6), Nova (2), and Ryatt (1).
“I was actually at McDonald’s getting food for our kids when he called me,” said his wife. “It was a three-second call of him saying, “I’m down,” at 15 and G, and somebody in the background hollered, and the phone had cut out. I happened to get behind an EMS vehicle coming out of town and just followed them the whole way.”
As a second EMS unit pulled up to the accident scene, she noticed that he was covered in blood and being put in the back of the EMS unit. “They wouldn’t let me see or talk to him, because there was no time to do anything of that,” she said with emotion.
His injuries were critical after his femur was shattered in two spots and his bone was sticking out of his leg before being transported to the hospital. The bike was a total loss as it was lying in pieces on the road.
“There was immediate contact with Life Flight to decide where he was going, and they were coming there (Bryan Hospital) to get him,” she commented. “There was no time for me to see him because as soon as the EMS vehicle had arrived at the hospital, Life Flight was already there.”
Bridon Bible was later flown to St. Vincent Hospital in Toledo the same night. “I didn’t get to see him until 1 o’clock in the morning, after I had drove straight to the hospital and got there around 8:30 p.m.,” she said. “My parents came and met me and got my kids.”
Around 12:47 a.m. on July 22, she was finally able to visit her husband in his hospital room. “He (Bridon) had screws sticking out of his leg and was trying to hold his leg in place,” she commented.
After seeing what her husband had gone through, there were plenty of doubters out there from the doctors who were treating him. “Everyone, everywhere, telling me for the first three days, that they couldn’t guarantee anything,” she said.
Her husband, who was finally discharged from St. Vincent’s on July 28, had overcome many obstacles from the serious accident. Not only was he discharged from the hospital, but his wife had told him they were expecting their fourth child.
“I had 13 different doctors telling me that he shouldn’t be alive today,” his wife emotionally said. “He should not live through this and got to go home the week after the accident. That alone, they think it wouldn’t happen.”
Bible kept telling the doctors that he was going to make it through. “I was in and out of it the entire time there (at St. Vincent’s),” he said. “I remember telling them all the time if I was going to make it.”
“Then I got kids at home that I’m trying to make it back home to. They just kept on telling me, “I’m fine,” “I’m fine”, I’m going to be all right. They’re trying to comfort me for the time being.”
One of the hospital’s chaplains would later come into his room and say there were a bunch of people out in the lobby praying and waiting for him.
“From there, I was just worried about being all right after two blood transfusions because I had lost so much blood,” he admitted.
Though he doesn’t have any health insurance to cover any medical expenses, he was worried about making sure that his wife and children were taken care of rather than himself.
A GoFundMe page has been set up to assist the family with medical expenses. Currently, he is off from his job and is at Phothera Phototherapy, where he is undergoing treatment for the accident. He is hoping to get back to work very soon.
“It was definitely a traumatic experience for me and makes me never want to get on a motorcycle again,” he said. “It’s something that I loved doing, maybe later on. I’m not comfortable anytime soon.”