A FAMILY'S LOVE

COLBY, LISA, SHELBY, WADE SPRATT

Last Tuesday started like any other day everyone went to work or school. Lisa came home and started to fix dinner thinking Wade would be home at any time, 6 came and went.  Lisa was thinking that Wade had gone to the gym without her again soon it was 7 even if he had gone to the gym he should be home by now.  7:15 the phone rings, it's Colby telling her there had been an accident that he and his dad had gone to the motto cross track, that they had to take Wade by ambulance to IMC. Lisa and Shelby head to the hospital on their way there they receive another call that it's not IMC that he had been taken to U of U so they head there.  Once there they are told to wait they are not told anything for several hours, they have not even seen him. soon a trauma team comes and gets Lisa and takes her to a room where she is informed that Wade has received head trauma and they are informing her about brain bleeds and that he is in a Coma.  

How does this happen to a perfectly health 53 year old man?
His other injuries include broken clavicle, collarbone, knee, tib/fib. his eye socket have been broken along with his nasal cavity.

His son had been in tune that he need to stop riding to get his bike and gear put away, he was waiting for his dad to finish one more ride around the track soon he notice that many people had ran towards the track so he went to see what was going on, there he found his dad badly hurt, he hears his dad asking for him and all Colby can do is assure him he is there and all Colby hears is the pain his dad is in, he feels so bad that he cannot help his dad at all.  Colby will hear his dad cry out in pain until he is put into the life flight helicopter.

As time goes on Wade's condition fluctuates, at times he seems to be doing better, then he has taken a turn for the worse. The family has been given some details about what the doctors want to do, they had also been given choices, these choices are not taken lightly. They conclude that it would be best to let him go that the outcome would not let Wade be the person he would want to be. 
So yesterday they tearfully said there goodbyes. They are donating all the organs they can so he will be helping many others to be able to have a second chance at life.

This is a family that loved to do so many things together. Wade and Lisa have always put the kids first, they are dedicated parents who would do anything in their power to help their kids succeed.   

Wade has been a pillar in the biking community whether it was in the BMX or Motto Cross. 
He has mentor many of Colby's friends 
his dry sense of humor was second to none
I am sure he has many many people that call him  friend. and probably many he was not even aware of. He was a people person and enjoyed visiting and helping anyone that was in need.

His family that is left are so strong and have such great love for one another will surely feel the loss of Wade. They will be OK for they have each other and will unite together to carry on.

Thank you Wade for your example of hard work, laughter and riding.