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.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

God's love is forever

Hello again everyone,

I just want to tell everyone how things have been since I moved to my new apartment here in Newark,Delaware close to Delaware Park, my old stomping grounds before my marriage, and close to Fair Hill, my stomping grounds during my marriage. Now I'm close to all my new locations involved in my recovery, the University of Delaware and Carousel Farms where I now ride once a week. There for a while I was feeling like I had disappointed God in letting my marriage fall apart and that greatly affected the way I felt about everything but so many great things have happened lately I realize that I'm not the one disappointing God about anything. In fact he is actually proud of me and all I've gone through and still have the desire to serve him. There have been so many ways he has shown me he is still concerned about my well being and happiness. It started with me being able to drive myself to a cookout I was invited to by an old friend who now works for Michael Matz and saw lots of people I haven't seen since the accident. Then an old friend of over 30 years who I used to be very fond of who then married a trainer and had a baby boy so I lost touch with her she saw the extreme home makeover show I was fortunate to be a part of and called me and we had a great conversation and she informed me she has been divorced for 15 years and her baby boy who once peed on me is now in law school. My how time passes when your having fun. So she just spent the weekend with me and all the feelings that were there 35 years ago are still there for both of us now that my wife has decided to live another life away from me. Rachelle asked me to be the God father of her beautiful baby boy Aaron who is named after Erin who is the little girl that passed away after a determined battle with a brain tumor and I'm very impressed with her mother who has been selected to be the God mother of Aaron. All of this combined with me having lunch with one of the first therapists that worked with me at the University after I was even well enough to leave the hospitals and start riding with Renee at Freedom Hills, then have spent the last year allowing the physical therapist at the University make all the decisions on my rehab thanks to Delaware Park footing a big part of the bill once my insurance stopped and they're the ones that got me started at Carousel Farms who by their generosity foots that bill and now to find out that the one therapist there is a born again christian who I had lunch with and invited me to his church and I invited two of my friends that live close to where the church is and have also been close friends of mine from the past. The wife I met fist at Atlantic City race track with my old golden retriever and first horse I ever owned or trained, then met the guy who became her husband and the one jockey that has won the most races for me through the years and the two of them have been my closest friends in the Lord and shared lots of spiritual closeness and meaningful experiences with. And after a beautiful church service went to their house and spent some quality time and had dinner with them. What a way to end a beautiful week and for me to remember God never lies. I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU OR FORSAKE YOU is now one of his promises I live by. Thanks for the time it took you to read this for those who did and thank you Lord for giving me the strength to type it all. Mike Rea

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