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Excellent news!
Thats great news please keep posting 🙂
Great to hear this.
big positive vibes to you and yrs oldnpastit, sompleased to hear of encouraging progress, take care of yrself too
Excellent!
Brilliant news!
Excellent news!!!
Awesome news!!
Obviously it's still going to be a long haul but these small (getting bigger) steps is ace news, and your worse fears can start to seriously diminish 🙂
Excellent! Nice to hear some positive news.
Thats excellent news, don't overwhelm the fella...
Take it one step at a time..
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Truly
Awesome
Great news, thanks for updating us! Sending healing vibes and stuff.
Brilliant news, on wards and upwards!
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Can you ask him if he wants to go halfers on a lottery ticket please. Still a long way to go, but at least the journey has started.
Some more positive news OP. Brilliant!
Good stuff! Hang on to all that positivity - here's hoping for lots more.
Wow!
Early days but sounds mighty positive.
Need that like button.... Excellent news.
That's fantastic news, it's warmed my heart, all the very best to you and your boy.
that's absolutely fantastic news!! its great to hear he is making good progress...long may it continue!!
Ahh glad to hear there's good, positive news, thanks for the update 🙂
Been reading this thread since the start but haven't posted as couldn't find the words too. So pleased things are looking positive for you all. Best Wishes.
Such a happy update, I'm really pleased your lad is making progress, the fact he can speak and move about is a massive upgrade since your first post. I hope you can stay optimistic and get the support you need.
All the best
excellent news, fingers crossed he makes a full recovery physically and mentally.
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That really has made my day. Great news indeed!
A big step forward! 🙂
I've been awol for a few days...what brilliant news.
keep on keeping on ....as they say...
\o/ Fab news.
He was re-intubated and re-sedated yesterday as he wasn't breathing properly, due to an ongoing lung infection. They might have another go at seeing if he can breathe on his own again today, but it depends on how his lungs are doing. I think it's just one of those things.
things go up and down, they;ve spotted something not right and they're taking steps to make it better. the care he's getting will see him through this.
Sorry to hear about the slight setback but I guess that recovery from a catastrophic event often is two steps forward one step back.
@oldnpastit - lung infection they can deal with, as you say its one of those things and not every step will be a forward one, its about the big picture and making forward progress overall and as you look back over events since you first posted it's positive.
Sorry for all the cliches !
Fingers are remaining crossed.
But incredibly glad there's been some good news.
Worth reading about John Pitchers who made a remarkable recovery after brain damage, mainly after starting taking Omega 3/6 supplements.
http://www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/1262752.landlord_calls_time_at_dales_pub/
I think it's just one of those things.
He's in the right place, with the right people, giving him the best possible chance.
All the best to you & your family.
Asked with some trepidation, any news?
I've not seen him today myself, but apparently he's going to get a tracheostomy (sp?) after which he'll be off the intubation and sedation, and able to talk. That'll be interesting.....
The ENT guy who came to look at him for the trachithingummy had been on holiday for the last two weeks and was quite surprised he was still alive, which I think is good.
I'm still following and so hoping the little bits of good news continue. Just now and then something on the Net has an impact on the way I lead my real life, this thread has.
Sounds like good progress, so pleased to hear it. Hope things keep getting better.
Just checking in and pleased that it appears to be a minor set-back with the tubing. Must be a drag for Oldnpastit Junior.
Been out on your bike recently? It may seem selfish to others and it will be surreal to you while it's happening but "you time" and Mrs Oldnpastit "her time" is really important. A time to draw breath and survey the scene before getting stuck in again.
All the best to you all.
@oldnpastit - Sounds like positive news. Amazing thing the human brain.
My mum had several major strokes, neusrosurgery, more strokes, internal bleeds into the brain over a 6 month period. Each time they readied us for the very worst and were very blunt in stating that she would not make it. That was 20 years ago, she's 88 now and the only residual effects are a hilarious propensity to use the wrong words and names, and the scars from the neurosurgery. During the 2 years all this was happening and her recovery period we never gave up, we sat with her, read to her, talked to her, my uncle tickled her foot (something he used to do to her when they were kids and she hated it) anything to interact with her. She confounded a lot of people.
The level of recovery that is possible can be surprising, I hope your lad has the same willpower and resilliance. Stick with it, you are doing a fantastic job for him and keep updating this thread.
Propafol has been turned off, and he's now quite a lot more alert. Squeezing hands, doing "thumbs-up", and even managed to write a few letters - "Wh?" (sic) although his handwriting is now even more shocking than it was before.
We tried to explain what had happened, which was quite hard, I guess at some point he has to know.
But he seemed like we might actually get our old son back, he seemed to enjoy our company, more than he'd done for years.
I left him watching Shawshank Redemption, and just as I was leaving I saw him moving his hands around in a strange way - and we then worked out he was waving to us.