Destruction

Accidents happen

          It was just such a beautiful day in Houston, Texas. Luka was sitting on the couch in the front of the tour bus practicing and tuning his cello, Stjepan was in his bed trying to sleep off a horrible headache before they reached their hotel, and Dusan was in Dallas visiting old friends and was going to meet Luka and Stjepan later in Houston. Suddenly there was a loud and long honk from what could have been a large truck then the whole bus was rolling over and over. Finally it came to a stop at the bottom of a ditch Stjepan pick himself up off the floor. He noticed a sharp pain in his knee but he could still put decent weight on it and went to go check on Luka. Luka was laying on the glass shattered floor. Luka clearly had a few decent cuts but nothing he wouldn't heal from or so Stjepan thought.

          "Luka, jeste li u redu? Jeste li povrijediti bilo gdje?" Luka groaned and turned his head to see an extremely concerned Stjepan kneeling over him. "Stjepan, moja glava ubija mene i moj lijevi zglob jako boli." immediately after Luka said this he quickly ran to his bag and pulled out his cellphone thankfully, he packed the bag with plenty of clothes to cushion the phone. Then Stjepan ran back to Luka and made sure he was still awake. Once he knew Luka was conscious he called 911. After he finished talking to the operator he looked for a way to get Luka out of the bus without injuring him further. Then he realized the windows were broken out. "Luka, može li opstati?" "Mislim da je tako, Stjepan." Stjepan carefully helped Luka stand. Luka's wrist definitely didn't look right. Luka was lucky enough to be able to stand but the concussion he had made everything spin which made him lean very heavily on Stjepan. "Luka, jeste li sigurni da možete stajati?" 

          "Stjepan, sve se vrti." 

          "Luka, ne mogu vas nositi. Mogu vas pokušati podržati, ali ti ne mogu nositi. Morate pokušati podržati posjedujete težinu."

          "Pokušat ću, Stjepan." Luka slowly leaned off of Stjepan and finally was standing on his own but that didn't last long as Luka started to sway. Stjepan supported Luka as they got to the windows. Stjepan climbed out first and then helped Luka out. As soon as Stjepan did that, the emergency crews arrived. The doctors quickly looked over Stjepan and he had a few small cuts and quite a bit of bruising. His knee was was just deep bruised. Luka on the other hand had a concussion, a dislocated left wrist, several slightly deep cuts, and a lot of bruising. The doctors tried to separate Stjepan from Luka but Stjepan wouldn't leave his side.

          Later at the hospital Stjepan was sitting in the waiting room waiting for Luka to finish in surgery when Dusan ran straight to Stjepan. "Kako je Luka?," Dusan asked in Croatian trying to keep their affairs private in case someone knew who they were. "Morali su ga staviti u kirurgiji.," Stjepan replied dejectedly and guilty. "Trebao sam zaštićen Luka , a ne otišao ići leći." 

          "Stjepan, niste znali da će se dogoditi. Ne tuku se preko njega. Luka će liječiti.," Dusan demanded. The head doctor called Stjepan's name and told him about Luka's state. Stjepan walked back to Dusan looking like he was going to cry. "Stjepan, što nije u redu?," Dusan asked. " Luka je završio operaciju. Ali on je ... on je morao biti stavljen u medicinski induciranoj komi zaustaviti oticanje u svom mozgu.," Stjepan said eerily calm. "O Bože. Stjepan, su .... jeste li u redu?," Dusan whispered. "I'm fine, Dusan.," Stjepan replied in English.

          They walked to Luka's room. Once they got their they saw Luka unconscious in the bed, his body almost completely covered in black and blue bruising. Stjepan saw his best friend and collapsed to the floor and began to cry. All Dusan could do was sit there and hold his friend as he cried. Stjepan's crying finally slowed to a stop. Stjepan stood up and walked over to Luka and begged," Luka, molimo dolaze kuće. Meni, tvoj brat i sestra, Dušan. Samo molimo nemojte dati u. držati borbe molimo." 

          "Stjepan, znam luka. On nikada neće zaustaviti borbe sve dok vaše ovdje. Vi ste njegov rock, Stjepan. On će uvijek dolaze natrag na vas.," Dusan assured. The doctors quickly walked in and asked if both of the artists if they wanted to stay for waking up Luka. They both nodded. As soon as the doctors stepped back to give Luka some space, Luka immediately called for Stjepan. "Luka, ja sam ovdje. Ti si sigurno. Mi smo u redu. Sve će biti u redu.," Stjepan replied with a huge smile on his face. "Stjepan, kako sam dospio ovdje?," Luka asked. "Bio si donio ovdje od strane liječnici.," Stjepan replied.

          The doctor asked to talk to Stjepan alone. The doctor said that when Luka dislocated his wrist he destroyed almost all of the cartilage in between his bones. " Could he ever play cello again?," Stjepan asked. The doctor said maybe with surgery and following physical therapy afterwards. But that wasn't guaranteed. And this scared Stjepan Hauser more than anything in the past few days.