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Every day that goes past is another day jon gets better... hold on to that.... get better quickly jon... thoughts are with him and his family.....

the most dangerous time is the 12 hours after the crash, if he's looking stable now it can only be a good thing. broken bones heal, lets just hope his loaf's alright and he'll be up and swinging in no time. really bad to hear though

[they done a ct scan asap, and looked clean, they done another one and found massive brain damage. said he could either end up in a wheel chair all his life, of loose all his memory . or worst, die. but really dont want it to come to that. really dont. my mate said he really isnt in a good state. his dad his holding up well.
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A lot of hospitals will say this all the time but it is not necessarily true I have a few patients that are leading as close to normal lives as possible now, so there is hope. Loosing all his memory sounds drastic, but memory deficits following brain injury are common but can be improved. Usually it is what is called 'Anterogrde Amnesia' which is being unable to form new memories from the point of incident and is attributed to Hippocampal damage. Retrograde Amnesia (before the incident) is usually attributed to damage on the right parietal lobe. With regards to the wheelchair, it's amazing what good physiotherapy can achieve and this area usually recovers rather quickly if it is attributable to brain damage. Brain areas associated with movement are the Basal Ganglia (where the movement is initially coded) this is then sent to the cerebellum where it is then guided to the motor cortex which sends the signal via the nervous system to the correct body part.

If need be when appropriate I'd administer an assessement called an RBANS (Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status) to give a general overview of cognitive functions, then the Doors and People Test to test for Anterograde Amnesia and an Autobiographical Memory Interview to test for Retrograde Amnesia.

Sorry to have waffled on but I thought everyone might like to be informed of the information regarding this possible damage.[/quote]

Have you eaten Mosby's for breakfast?

Just caught up with all the posts on John's crash as I wasn't on here yesterday.

It goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway, a big GET WELL SOON from me and Ali.


Thanks to Baskie for letting us know what's happening and keep the updates coming. If he or his family need help with anything post it on here and I'm sure we ( the wonderful people of SWB) can help out.

Whats Mosby's? i had a mixture of Honey nut cornfalkes and wheetos...

Funkalicious wrote:Whats Mosby's? i had a mixture of Honey nut cornfalkes and wheetos...

Mosby's, the medical dictionary.

Ha ha, no it's my job!

Mine too...

Ha ha, cool

Yep Neuro-Rehab, so we know what Jon and his relations will be going through, Lets hope he doesn't need us for long...

What neuro-Rehab unit are you at?

Please please Jon pull through mate.

Funkalicious wrote:What neuro-Rehab unit are you at?

You have a pm.

look lads im tonjons older cuzen thankz for all this hes really not in a gd way were all up there with him thankz alot for all ur comfort.
who is the lad who didnt ask how he was let me no sumone
again thankz alot