it was right before 11:00 p.m. that
gentleman salted and he had fallen
backwards and he was having rock from
the assault and was out for six or seven
minutes I guess while I was scrambling
to call 9-1-1 and had no idea he had hit
a rock when he came to us he already had
a breathing tube in and he was found
only to have some brainstem function
young doctor came around female and she
simply called in a surgical team your
husband became not being responsive and
we're gonna have to operate and I was
just blown away and she said I'm sorry
don't worry he has brain damage top
priority was getting him to the
operating room to relieve the pressure
in his brain he also had skull fracture
and I've indicated the severity of the
hall that he took
so I was not very optimistic at first
when I was talking to his wife and his
son and his family as the days went by
it was very clear that he was a very
strong man and he you know he had his
ups and downs but he gradually emerged
from his coma gradually was able to
breathe on his own he gradually started
having vocalizations what I recognized
when I first woke up was that I need to
get better
there's things I used to do and life
that try and keep my health better okay
I used to run a little bit you know like
a couple miles I felt like that was a
good thing I would try and do as much as
I could to stay healthy
oh you know all year I think that my
body being in good shape before helped
me to get through
mr. admirer was one of the most
determined patients I think I've seen he
was so highly functioning to begin with
and he again as he recovered he became
aware of his deficits he was determined
to work on them
everything about him is different he
won't like this he lost 35 pounds mostly
muscle if I went outside the walk to get
some exercise and I could start with
like one lap around the house and do
multiple but I had to use a helmet one
of the stories that Christina told me
was that he would take walks on his
property because I had told him stay
active make sure you don't stay inside
in my bed and to get exercise and to be
out and be thinking and you know being
to try to build it build up his strength
well I came home one day and he was
walking and there was a there was a
petal rocks in the garlic driveway and
products for but then later they were
gone
and I didn't find out till a couple
weeks later when I was graciously
invited to a Walkman
he asked me to join them and he said
wait a minute we have to go here first
we went to the driveway he lined up nine
rocks and I said what are those for
he said much so we make a lap around and
we came back around to this foot and
they kick the rock back into them bet
that's not keep track and it came again
kicks my rock so he knew he wanted to do
nine laps that's what he was up to and
that's how he kept track it's just
something he came up with very very
organized thinking and that to me was a
great indication of how determined he
was I'm working now but not the hours I
used to so what I'm hoping to do is to
do the level of work I used to do and
they're supporting me so that's good so
long period of time that it takes so now
I'm understanding that so I'm work out a
little harder
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