Trauma Patient Stories
December 23, 2022
UAMS Trauma Team Helps Save Sherwood Man after 30-Foot Fall
Even though Josh Pretty can’t remember what happened to him, his family and friends will never forget his fall Nov. 12 from the top of a 30-foot ladder while hanging Christmas lights from a customer’s house. They didn’t anticipate the accident or the sight of the severe injuries he received from it.
October 8, 2018
Family Finds Faith an Anchor During Recovery From Traumatic Brain Injury
On the afternoon of November 10, 2017, the temperature hovered just below 60 degrees. A few clouds passed through the sky as a light breeze moved through leaves rich with fall foliage. Joshua Moody, 22, and his father, David, decided they would take advantage of the weather, so after sharing lunch, they went for a…
December 8, 2016
Surgeons Use 3D Technology to Reconstruct Man’s Face
Dec. 8, 2016 | “When I reached up and felt the blood, I knew I’d hurt myself badly. But I had no idea my face had been crushed.” Sidney Todd III was at his job Jan.13, 2016, checking out oil wells in Union County. As he stepped up on a unit, he slipped on a…
August 10, 2016
Following Trauma, Arkansas Woman Hopes to Counsel Others
Aug. 10, 2016 | Life for the Boxx family changed dramatically on Dec. 26, 2013. Janet Boxx, her husband, David, their three children and an international student were traveling from Kansas City and were almost to their Bentonville home when they were involved in a three-vehicle accident just outside the Arkansas border. “The truck pulled…
August 17, 2015
UAMS Saves Woman’s Nearly Severed Arm with Prosthetic Elbow
Only a few nerves kept Lisa Shelton’s left arm attached to her body when she arrived at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) after it was almost severed by a truck door. In December 2012, Shelton, of Jerusalem, was on her way to meet her sister for lunch in Morrilton when her car…
June 5, 2015
Hand Telemedicine Program, UAMS Physician Save Batesville Man’s Hand
A split-second connection between a table saw blade and a wedding ring almost took Tommy Watts’ hand. A high-speed, split-second video connection between a Batesville hospital and UAMS orthopaedic surgeon’s iPad helped him keep it. When the teeth of the blade caught on the ring, it pulled Watts’ hand into its path, slicing into his…
August 17, 2014
Perfect Timing at UAMS Saves Woman After Violent Accident
Perfect timing. That’s what Amy Kizziar needed one cold November day in 2011 when she was impaled by a two-by-six and endured multiple broken bones, gaping wounds and life-threatening blood loss. Perfect timing is what UAMS delivered that day when Kizziar’s routine morning commute turned nightmarish as a mobile home being transported on an 18-wheeler…
July 10, 2014
Not a Second to Spare
UAMS Leads New Statewide Trauma System as a Level One Trauma Center Ashley Machado drifted off to sleep in the back seat of her car as a friend drove it on icy Highway 70 east of North Little Rock the evening of Jan. 11, 2011. She awoke to screams, a crash – and then nothing….
March 1, 2014
Putting the Pieces Back Together
By Kate Franks Betsy Parkinson of Little Rock had 27 fractures in her skull when she came to the UAMS Emergency Department on June 29, 2010. “All the king’s horses and all the king’s men” weren’t available to put her back together, but, thankfully, the staff at UAMS was. “Dr. Moody, Dr.Westfall and the amazing emergency…
December 19, 2012
UAMS Helps Accident Survivor Overcome Injuries and PTSD
You don’t have to ask Gail Ragland whether or not she believes in miracles – she counts herself as one. Medically she has defied all odds to survive not only a horrific car accident, but also the stress that followed it. In February 2010, Gail Ragland, of Marshall, and her husband, Roy, were driving in…
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