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Articles: Read all about it! ... The latest news on Kevin
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 11:04 PM, (864 Reads)
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Given the extent of his injuries, these are still very early days in Kevin’s healing, but he is doing well and has come a long way. He is still in a coma most of the time, but he has achieved some major milestones over the last week...
He has been outdoors in his new wheelchair (complete with helmet), is having some longer periods of wakefulness and, on Monday, had a PEG (percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy) tube inserted through his abdomen to his stomach so that he can be fed via that route rather than the gastric tube that had become so annoying that he chewed through it and then worked it out of his mouth with his tongue! He will have to be weaned from the tracheostomy tube, but this is going well.
Meanwhile, he is still enjoying daily massage, and has now had three osteopathy sessions. Whereas he still wasn’t moving his right arm a couple of weeks ago, he now has lots of movement in it. He can scratch and rub his face, legs, eyes, nose, belly and opposite hand, can put his hands together, and will remove someone’s hand or arm if they are overstimulating him. The other day, on his own accord, he felt where he has had the craniectomy – now that must have felt odd! He can reach out a hand if he hears a loved one’s voice, and at times he also responds to voices with a smile.
Most encouragingly, last Wednesday Kevin spontaneously felt all around Alison’s face and then slipped his hand around the back of her head and gave it a good scratch just the way he used to do whenever he gave her a cuddle! She is now enjoying good scratches on a regular basis (we knew she wasn't 'Alicat' for nothing!), and he appears to get a lot of pleasure from this too as he smiles happily when doing it! Then, last Saturday Alison put some of Kevin’s favourite perfume on his moustache and he was awake for two hours afterwards! He responded very well, opening his eyes and smiling. He is showing some signs of recognition and ‘connection’ with Alison and people who phone him, and has been grinning a lot at appropriate times.
Kevin has undergone tests to see when his cranium can be replaced, and the indications are that this might be soon. The cranial swelling has subsided enormously, and when one considers that this can takes some months, this is very encouraging as he seems to be healing well. Alison should have some more news later this week about what the next stage in Kevin’s care will be.
Kevin is working really hard, and so are Alison and the girls. Well done to all of them! Today (Tuesday) the nurse said that there was a lot of improvement in his neck and visual tracking. However, there is still a long way to go of course, and at this stage he does not yet show enough appropriate responses to be moved to the rehabilitation ward. Please keep up all the support to help Kevin on this arduous journey!
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Re: Read all about it! ... The latest news on Kevin
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by joy on Jul 11, 2007 - 02:12 AM
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Thanks so much for the very detailed update Kerry.
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by Karl (karlsmith@clear.net.nz)
on Jul 11, 2007 - 09:33 AM
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Thanks Kerry!
Great News, lots of love to you and the whole family Alison.
Karl
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by renae on Jul 14, 2007 - 12:10 AM
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hi everyone,
wow i can not believe glenda and sid are coming over to do this it is so amazingly generous of them and we promise to mae it worth their while showing them the sites!
well its 8am here in perth and i have been at the hospital for almost an hour, i came up earlier because last night dad was extremely anxious, he is starting to become more and more aware of what is happened to him and atarts to really panic even though its awefull to see it is a good thing as long as soeone is there to comfort him and explain everything. i feel so bad for him though he gets this aweful look of absoulote terror in his eyes, but that reaction seems human i think we would all be like that if we woke up and couldnt really move and couldnt talk at all. i had to use all my strength to calm him yesterday hands and arms were going everywhere he moved both his legss and was trying really hard to pull himself up he lifted his back about a cm or 2 off the bed and up as well as his neck so that ws awesome to see, after i spoke to him and explained it all he settles down and is ok.
well lots of love an dthanks for updating kerry
love renae
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