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.

Monday, August 07, 2006

A Good Day of Therapies

Well I am back in Baltimore, MD but returned late because of the traffic and weather. Mike was okay with it, but made me promise to be right there tomorrow. Mother says he had a very good day of all his therapies. The physical therapist said he did extra good today and that he was a very hard worker. His friend from Fayetteville, Mike Osbourne called him tonight and they talked for awhile. Mike Os. told mother he was amazed at the difference in their conversation tonight than last time he had talked to Mike. Mother takes him out in the evening to enjoy some fresh air. Mike is trying to steer himself still but is working on getting the chair to go straight. I am going to have to check that chair out tomorrow. The last we heard about the removal of his stomach tube is that it is coming out tomorrow. You know I'll let you know tomorrow night. Thank you for the messages from TWR site and I hope all of you get to get back on there and leave Barbaro messages. I really enjoyed reading it. We have lit candles also for Barbaro and Mike. We tell Mike about all the messages and what they say and about TWR's site too. Well it's been a long day and drive so I am going to go for now. God bless you all and I'll be back tomorrow night.

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Mike...you are such an amazing person. Your courage, strength, faith and spirit are an inspiration to us all. It must be very difficult to be patient, but know you WILL be victorious and you WILL walk out of that hospital!

Mike's family...thank you for opening your hearts to us and sharing this experience with us. We started coming to your site immediately after it was posted on TWR site, and have visited daily ever since. You are such a great family...so lucky to have each other.

p.s. Mike - now take it easy in that wheelchair. I can just imagine you breezing the hospital corridors like a race track!

~ Lani & family

2:19 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hello, Thanks ever so much for today's update. I know it's been a long and tiring day for you. I'm glad you made it safely back to Baltimore.

Keep up the good work Mike, you're doing better and better every day! Don't worry about the wheelchair, you'll master that in no time. Just remember it took Barbaro a little while to adjust to using his sling and now he's lovin it.

3:58 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

MIKE YOU TAKE IT EASY AND GET WELL SO YOU CAN GO HOME TO YOUR FAMILY. I LIGHT A CANDLE FOR YOU AND BARBARO EVERYDAY.MY HUSBAND HAD THE SAME KIND OF ACCIDENT YOU HAD AT THE TRACK IN CA AND NOW HE IS DOING GREAT AFTER ALL HIS THERPY. TAKE CARE

8:19 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How wonderful that you are coming
along so well. My cousin had two
horse accidents and had to go
through what you are going through
Therapy is a marvelous tool.
Keep on coming...The Great Phy-
sician is right there with you.
God bless you and your family.

10:15 AM  

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