By Sophia Voravong

INDIANAPOLIS -- If David Osadchuk wakes up from his coma, doctors told the family he will have to endure up to a year of speech and physical therapy to function normally again.

It's a struggle that brings his wife, Amy, to tears -- but also one that strengthens her hope that he will get better.

"Dave and I are pretty much inseparable," Amy Osadchuk said. "My whole life is lying in that hospital bed. ... It's been the hardest week of my life."

Her husband of seven years has been in the intensive care unit at Indianapolis' Wishard Hospital since the morning of July 6, when a suspected drunken driver struck David Osadchuk's vehicle on Indiana 38 East.

The 31-year-old had just left work at Subaru of Indiana Automotive.

"He calls every night on his way home from work," Amy Osadchuk said. "I heard the entire accident."

Formal charges have not yet been filed against the man suspected of causing the crash, Juventino "Jose" Castillo, 24, of Lafayette.

Castillo, a member of the Indiana National Guard, had a blood-alcohol content of 0.218 percent -- nearly three times the state's legal limit of 0.08 percent -- an hour after the wreck, according to court documents.

Sgt. Max Smith of the Lafayette Police Department said part of the delay is because investigators are waiting on medical records from Wishard Hospital.

They also are trying to get more information about a traffic incident in Michigan that is on Castillo's driving record, Smith said.

The early morning, rear-end wreck that injured David Osadchuk pushed his Chevy Cavalier roughly 300 feet into a ditch. The car's roof had to be cut to remove him.

David Osadchuk suffered frontal lobe shearing, meaning his brain moved around inside his head and separated, his wife said.

The Osadchuks moved to Lafayette from Evansville in mid-June, after David was offered a full-time position at SIA in the plant's body shop. He had worked at Toyota manufacturing plant in Princeton.

Mary Sparks of Montezuma, Ind., is Amy Osadchuk's aunt. She also was David Osadchuk's best man in their wedding because David, a native of Canada, did not have family in the area.

"It's an emotional rollercoaster right now," Sparks said. "We don't know yet the full extent of the damage to him ... whether or not he'll come out of the coma."