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.

Thursday, September 28, 2006

More Pictures to Come

Hello everyone. Well Nancy has scanned all the pictures of Mike in his earlier days with the horses and the rest of the birthday party pictures that were on Mother's camera. So here shortly ya'll will have a bunch of pictures to look at. I love the ones of Mike when he was a jockey. He trained and raced some of his horses. I especially remember one of the races that was 20 to 1 and the horse won. Wow!! All of the family was so excited.

Mike is doing extremely well in physical therapy. A physical therapist named Cindy who just started working with Mikey this week is trying to do P.T. with him twice a day. Now here is another coincidence. She used to run a deli right outside of Fair Hill and when she saw Mike she knew she had seen him somewhere before. She said a lot of the owners, trainers, and riders would come there and eat and that is where she had seen Mike before. God does work in mysterious ways. Everything that has been happening since Mike's accident makes you (me) really think. BELIEVE!!!!!

Mike is already getting excited about his home visit again this weekend. He gets to leave on Saturday morning and then return on Sunday afternoon. I think it is good all around. He gets to spend quality time with his family, get used to being at home 24/7, and see what he really needs at the home for him to be able to get around better. I just want Extreme Home Makeover to go through for him. Then I'll know before Mother and I go home that he will be safe and we won't have to worry about him falling or something. Nancy was thinking about doing a petition where people sign to add to the Home Makeover package. What gave her the idea was when the show premiered last week, one of the family's had 50,000 signatures to their nomination. She is still thinking or working on it as far as I know. We're also trying to think of another fund raiser for his recovery fund. We know for sure he won't be able to work for a full year right now. So his family and he will need support.

Well I have to finish washing Mike's and our clothes, get a shower and get to Sunbridge. Everyone have a wonderful day and JUST BELIEVE. God bless everyone and especially those in need.

WE BELIEVE IN MIRACLES
WE BELIEVE IN BARBARO
WE BELIEVE IN MIKE REA

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

THOSE PICTURES (early days) ARE GREAT!!! I just loved seeing them. Mike, you're a very talented rider. I do the hunter/jumper thing with my retired racehorse and loved seeing your jumping days!

Your pictures as a jockey are fabulous too. thanks for posting them.

Wendy in Michigan

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