March 2021
Ron Berry WA5BUG
15/03/21 08:05
March 15th 2021:
I held off reporting this in public in the hopes that by the time I released this months BLOG, we would have much better news.
For those who know Ron Berry WA5BUG, he is an local Amateur in the New Braunfels who has been a huge driving force in local Amateur Radio, and the repeaters in the area for several of the local Amateur Clubs North of San Antonio. He has always been willing to lend a hand to help fellow Amateurs with both advice and technical and physical assistance.
Ron had a fall accident the other day while working on Antennas, and landed on cement, causing major trauma to his head, and body. He has major head/brain injuries, multiple broken ribs, both of his shoulders and his back was broken in two places along with his pelvis having been fractured on both sides.
The EEG does show brain activity and they have placed a tube to bleed off pressure within his skull, and he has not been conscious and is currently on life Support. They performed surgery to install a breathing and feeding tube.
Along with this, he has suffered a major stroke in the back of his brain and what additional issues this may cause can not yet be determined.
Not only does Ron require a lot of prayers from everyone for a recovery path, but his wife Rita and his children, family and friends need our prayers during this time period.
Please Keep Ron and his entire family in your thoughts and prayers.
We also need to learn from this accident, and insure we take safety precautions as we work on antennas no matter where they are mounted, roof, towers, push up poles. Each time we work on them, we open ourselves up to multiple hazards from electrocution, to fall and other injuries.
So we beg you, when working on Antennas, towers, or any time you are working from a height please take caution and function safely.
I have a very good and close friend who just before this past fall, was working on the side of a cabin helping a neighbor of mine at our ranch replace the siding and other improvements on a weekend/hunting cabin……a single moment of careless had the ladder slip out, he fell and landed on the ladder sideways, breaking multiple ribs, ruptured his spleen and a rib tore an artery. He was hours from a trauma center and but for the grace of God is still with us today, he spent almost a month in the Trauma center and another 3 months healing up.
So the best advise we can all take, is to please learn from other peoples accidents, and try to not fall victim to one.
As I learn more regarding Ron, I will keep people advised via E-mail, and I hope and pray for a full and complete recovery for him.
God Bless
Greg N5XO
I held off reporting this in public in the hopes that by the time I released this months BLOG, we would have much better news.
For those who know Ron Berry WA5BUG, he is an local Amateur in the New Braunfels who has been a huge driving force in local Amateur Radio, and the repeaters in the area for several of the local Amateur Clubs North of San Antonio. He has always been willing to lend a hand to help fellow Amateurs with both advice and technical and physical assistance.
Ron had a fall accident the other day while working on Antennas, and landed on cement, causing major trauma to his head, and body. He has major head/brain injuries, multiple broken ribs, both of his shoulders and his back was broken in two places along with his pelvis having been fractured on both sides.
The EEG does show brain activity and they have placed a tube to bleed off pressure within his skull, and he has not been conscious and is currently on life Support. They performed surgery to install a breathing and feeding tube.
Along with this, he has suffered a major stroke in the back of his brain and what additional issues this may cause can not yet be determined.
Not only does Ron require a lot of prayers from everyone for a recovery path, but his wife Rita and his children, family and friends need our prayers during this time period.
Please Keep Ron and his entire family in your thoughts and prayers.
We also need to learn from this accident, and insure we take safety precautions as we work on antennas no matter where they are mounted, roof, towers, push up poles. Each time we work on them, we open ourselves up to multiple hazards from electrocution, to fall and other injuries.
So we beg you, when working on Antennas, towers, or any time you are working from a height please take caution and function safely.
I have a very good and close friend who just before this past fall, was working on the side of a cabin helping a neighbor of mine at our ranch replace the siding and other improvements on a weekend/hunting cabin……a single moment of careless had the ladder slip out, he fell and landed on the ladder sideways, breaking multiple ribs, ruptured his spleen and a rib tore an artery. He was hours from a trauma center and but for the grace of God is still with us today, he spent almost a month in the Trauma center and another 3 months healing up.
So the best advise we can all take, is to please learn from other peoples accidents, and try to not fall victim to one.
As I learn more regarding Ron, I will keep people advised via E-mail, and I hope and pray for a full and complete recovery for him.
God Bless
Greg N5XO
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