Nurse Nicole was a new and welcome sight in the IOD clinic for the St. Louis Police Department. Jake had been coming to the clinic for the past month every week and each visit was becoming more mundane than the last. As a St. Louis Police Officer, Jake had been on the job for only two years before he received his first major injury. He received a call for a possible gas leak at a house in a residential area and had beat the fire department there.
He smelled the aerosolized gas before he even made it inside. Kicking the door in, he was able to guide the husband, wife, and two kids out of the house. It was when the fire department arrived that the house unexpectedly ignited. The explosion was massive and concussive. While the family were safe in the back of Jake’s patrol car, the young officer was knocked off his feet from the blast and buried in rubble.
Jake had received second degree burns to his left arm and shoulder as well as a serious concussion that had the potential of becoming a Traumatic Brain Injury. The ER ordered for several check ups and follow up visits from the IOD clinic for treatments to his skin, and tests and scans of his brain.