Mike Rea's Recovery Info & Updates

Mike's family created this blog to acknowledge our heartfelt appreciation for all your thoughts, prayers, and well wishes since his accident. Please check back regularly for updates on his condition and recovery process. We know all of you will keep Mike and his family in your prayers!

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On June 16, 2006, Mike was doing what he loves most in the world~training a race horse! One minute, friends saw him go by at a full gallop. Thirty minutes later, he was found unconscious and barely breathing. Mike endured an emergency helicopter ride to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Unit where doctors determined he had suffered a severe brain injury and was placed in ICU in critical condition. After three weeks, Mike was transferred to Kernan Rehabilitation Center, then Sunbridge Care and Rehabilitation. He returned home in October ‘06 and continues to work on his recovery. We have experienced much hope and joy as we have witnessed Mike's miraculous journey towards recovery. Mike IS A MIRACLE (the exact words of his neurologist) and continues to surprise his health care providers. Mike faces each day with courage, faith and perseverance; his new job consisting of physical therapy and theraputic riding. Mike is currently undergoing Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and is experiencing great progress! FOR THOSE WHO HAVE OFFERED ASSISTANCE, A "MIKE REA RECOVERY RELIEF FUND" HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED TO HELP WITH MIKE'S MEDICAL AND DAILY NEEDS.

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Hello everyone. Today was an okay day. It has been raining here in Baltimore for several days. So the sky is dreary and the atmosphere around you. Mike is doing well. He has opened his eyes several times today and has mumbled. Mother thinks since I have done pediatrics for so long that the way I talk to him gets him to communicate the best. I act up silly playing peek a boo with his eyes which makes him open them and sing," love to love you baby", which makes him say I love you too Cathy. So....................blame it on my pediatric training. I'm loving it and hearing it. The case manager is thinking way ahead and working on finding a rehabilitation center for him. Of course we want the best brain injury one they can find. Mike still though is in the Shock Trauma Unit in guarded critical care. The fevers continue and so does the oxygen, tube feedings, and IV antibiotics. Tonight after the fever dropped Mike became aware of us being there and started mumbling again but you could make out a lot of it. He knows he is in the hospital, our full names, and when I tell him to look at the pretty nurse, he'll look towards them. Tonight he asked us to pray for him and then to pray with him. Of course we did and when he appears to be at ease his heart rate will go to normal and his respirations also. All is good tonight and God is good. Good night.

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