Upon reading KGs’s thread where he asked about a character being shot in the stomach, I realized that we have some very sharp people around here who work in medicine, and that I could use some expertise as well for the book I’m writing.
In the book, my very unfortunate character (though not as unfortunate as some others, who will never again be changing their shirts, if you get my meaning) is detained and tortured by a very shady character, who inflicts the following injuries on him:
– Shoots him in the right eye with an arrow, which luckily for him only penetrates to the back of his eye and does not go clear through his head, because the shooter loses her grip on the bow string before pulling it all the way back, thereby putting less oomph behind it. This action obviously completely ruins the eye, and screws up his sinuses a little because the arrow goes in very slightly crooked
– Hits him with a sledgehammer in the left leg a fair few times, in an attempt to cripple him so that he cannot escape (as well as attempting to incapacitate him with pain so that he’ll lose the will to fight back.) This basically reduces his hip joint and upper femur in that leg to really calcium-rich mud, and I also had a notion that it might put a crack in his pelvis just from the force of the hip joint being pushed inwards by the hammer blows, but I am willing to be disabused of that notion if it is not feasible.
– Sticks sewing pins into the left side of his abdomen, starting low and forming cluster patterns up his side, penetrating only shallowly for the most part (at least as originally placed…there is a complicating factor, to be discussed below) except in one area about four or five inches up from his groin, where she presses her hand into a field of the pins and pushes them deeper.
After all this is inflicted on him, he still manages with great difficulty to escape (the murderer is called away and has to leave him for a time, and he thinks of a way to unlock the door.) He crawls on his stomach, using his one good leg to propel him (and probably digging those pins in deeper…) out of the house, down the driveway and into the gutter, where he is seen by a passing motorist, who calls 911 for him. From the time he is first injured until he is being cared for by paramedics is, I’d say, about an hour or so, and then it’s about another 15 minutes to the hospital, which is in the next town over.
Now, with all that…once he got to the hospital, what would they fix first, after they made sure he wasn’t going to just die right then? What would be the recovery time on these sorts of injuries? As it is in the story now, I have him falling into a coma for a few days, then waking up and finding that they’ve cleaned out the remains of his broken eyeball and done something to his hip (would they replace it, or try to plate it and screw it back together?) He then spends some amount of time in the hospital, then a little while in a skilling nursing facility undergoing intensive physical therapy and being taught how to walk with a crutch (once he’s healed enough to allow that) and then a long recovery at home after that. How long these stays are is flexible, depending on your knowledgeable advice 
Just for background, this is a 16 year old boy, in good health before this incident, and (I think this is important, at least) he has a very strong will to live, both because of his general disposition and because the girl who tried to murder him also murdered his girlfriend and his best friend in front of him, and he intensely wants to get better so that he can help bring her to justice.
Thank you muchly in advance for your knowledgeable comments