Uncle Jamie told me later, that on the way to the hospital, I kept mumbling something about Uncle Joe, and how I was "coming home." He said at one point, my heart stopped beating, and the paramedics had to resuscitate me. He said he was on the phone with Dad the entire ride. Uncle Jamie said Dad was freaking out about what was happening. When the heart monitor started to flatline, I don't think that helped.
Dad was at the hospital when we got there. I had gained some consciousness by then and saw him walking back and forth in front of my bed waiting for me to wake up. When I did he came to the side of the bed and kneeled down beside me. He started to cry, and put his hands on my head. He leaned down, and said something that I made out to be "Don't leave me Joseph. Please don't leave me too."
The only thing I remember from those few nights in the hospital were the few moments before I went into the coma, and the nightmares I had during it. Since they had broken my ribs and my entire right hand, I had to go in for surgery almost immediately. After the operation was successful, where they had replaced most of the bone with mechanical parts, I slipped into a coma because of the blunt force trauma to the right side of my head. They told me later that the bones in my hand were so broken, they wouldn't have healed if they were in a cast. My right hand is basically all metal; they went ahead and replaced my pinky too.
When I was in the coma, I had to be fed by a tube. I was put on a form of life support for a while because every so often, my heart would start beating irregularly, then stop altogether. I died about three or four times. I know that, because every time I did, I would go to Heaven for about two minutes every time. Uncle Joe introduced me to God, Grandpa's older brother, Peter Christopher Reagan, Grandpa's mom, Betty Reagan, Grandma, and everyone else in the family in Heaven. Every time they would bring me back I would go back to the horrible nightmares and wish that I was dead again so I could get out of the pain and suffering.