Josh's Updates: Hola, my name is Riley Piccolo and I want to be your Doctor!

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Hola, my name is Riley Piccolo and I want to be your Doctor!

1 comment:

Sierra said...: You don't know me, but I found this blog through a friend. I am a good friend of the Piccalo's and the Radmall's. Jordan & Steve Sessions are great friends as well. One of Josh's nurses was Dorinda Ropelato, a family friend as well. Small world...Just wanted to say, this blog is inspiring and I am rooting for you.... I'll keep your family in my prayers. Best of luck; August 20, 2008 at 4:34 PM

July 30, 2008

Josh was spending the day with his family at the Holmes family reunion. They were all having some 'fun in the sun' at Pineview Reservoir. Josh had been impressing everyone with his wakeboarding skills and took a couple bad wrecks. Later that day he was swimming off the shore at Middle Inlet with his brothers Justin and Colton. Josh was standing in the water almost to his waist when he did a swimmers dive to go in for a swim. Josh remembers hitting the sand. He was instantly paralyzed and was not able to come up. His brothers swimming close by noticed his back arched and his head under and wondered what he was doing, they swam over to him and helped him out to the shore, Josh coughed up some water, and told them he thought he was drowning. Justin touched Josh's leg and he could not feel them. 911 was called immediately, within 4-5 min. the paramedics were there and called life-flight. Josh was transported to the Hospital.