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Show I Craig Mortensen I Is Returned To Payson Hospital Craig Mortensen, 16-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Mortensen, Morten-sen, is again a patient at the Pay-son Pay-son hospital ,for surgery and treatment treat-ment of injuries he received in a car accident Sunday night, Oct. 7. He was returned there last Thursday Thurs-day night. The lad had been in the hospital hos-pital a week following the accident accid-ent which injured him and his mother, mo-ther, Mrs. Leah Mortensen. Then he had been released and returned return-ed to Delta, where he resumed deliveries de-liveries on his paper route and was back in Delta high school. Last Thursday he went with some of the family to Payson to visit Mrs. Mortensen who was in the hospital with a fractured pelvis. pel-vis. Later the group went on to Provo, when Craig became very ill and was in pain. TTo wnc thpn tflkpn hank to the Payson hospital, where it was determined de-termined that he was bleeding internally in-ternally from injuries sustained in the earlier accident. Surgery was performed in an operation that took two and a half hours, repairing three tears in the spleen. He was also given blood transfusions. He is still at the hosiptal, and. will be for some time yet. His condition is reported as good as can be expected. Some one of the family has been with him each night at the hospital. Charles Allen, Milo and Ron Mortensen and Ray Western Craig's uncles, and Jan Wright gave blood for the boy and the blood bank. In the meantime his mother has made a better recovery than was anticipated and was released from the hospital Tuesday, several weeks earlier than had at first been thought possible. She was brought to Delta Tuesday, and is at the home of her sister Mrs. Duane Bishop in Delta where she will be cared for while the injured pelvis mends. |