Update on my brother

First off, I want to thank everyone once again for the thoughts & prayers for my brother. A week ago yesterday he was accepted & moved to a rehabilitation hospital for extensive rehab. The case worker said that based on his medical records he would only be there 1-2 weeks max. He was discharged to go home this morning. He is walking on a walker, he can shower & dress himself all, of this is a huge step. He is unsteady on his feet & still drags his right foot but every day he gets better. It is a miracle that he survived another TBI. His cognitive skills are severely impaired. We hope in time this will improve, time will only tell. He will have occupational therapy at home for probably a week or two & this will help him a lot.

I am going to ask that you continue to keep him in your prayers as he still has a very long road ahead of him. This is far from over, but we are thankful that he is where he is at this point especially when we were given the opposite outcome for him.

Glad to hear there is improvement...one day at a time...

Will keep him and your family in my prayers

Thanks for the Great Update ! Prayers continue.

Susie,

I am very glad that your brother is doing so well right now.

I am sure that the road to recovery will be a very long one and the more help that he can get the better.

I know my circumstances are no where near the same as his - but they do relate in several ways. It is probably going to be sometime before he can stay on his own at his own home. You can either have someone stay with him all of the time (even at night - especially at night).

I know that my medications created a lot of confusion for me at first and I needed a lot of help managing them. Secondly, he is probably doing very well at this point in his recovery, but it is very easy to have a set-back (and there are all kinds of those), but the biggest problem of all is the depression. It can set it before you know it and you really have to head it off at the pass whenever you can. Keep him talking - even when he doesn't want to.

I hope some of this helps! I am really, really hope that his recovery goes off without a single hitch!!

Trudy

Susie......keeping you both in my thoughts & prayera.

Susie, I'm glad to hear that your brother is doing better. Hope he'll continue to do well. Keeping him in my prayers and thoughts.

UA