[Tig] [Fwd: FW: Petite Reprieve (Craig Fearing)]

[Rob Lingelbach]

the following comes from Jennifer at DaVinci originally written by
Barbara
Fearing on Craig's status:


"Wow, I didn't realize how long it's been since I've updated anyone on
Craig's condition.  I guess it's because each day just blurs into the
next, and there hasn't been anything new to report.  He is now into his
fifth week of re-education, although nothing much really happened the
first week due to vacation schedules and holidays."



"he has a four star view both from the balcony and his bed, overlooking
the airport.  He does enjoy watching the planes take off and land,
reminiscent of his past life (and hopefully again his future one).  He
has support pillows for both his heel and his arm.  He no longer needs
his wheelchair."



"One positive note is that he is up and walking fairly normally.  He
got
a really bad bedsore on his heel when he was in ICU and just
starting to
get his legs back, and that is still healing.  So he tends to favor his
heel when walking, which will make anyone walk a bit funny.  Also, he
says that if he walks heel to toe, as normal people do, it tends to jar
his spine.  Cushier shoes might help that, but right now he tends to
walk toes first.  However, he proved to me that he could go up and down
a flight of stairs just fine, a requirement to coming home as our house
is surrounded by steps."



They spend a lot of time working on his left hand.  However, he's got a
bad edema for some reason.  They've done all kinds of tests, x-rays,
echographies on it to see what's going on, but nothing shows up.  It
seems like it is slowly slowly getting better, but it's hard to see
much
when it's always swollen and hurts him"

"He's being able to do more and more with his right hand.  He does a
lot
of ergo therapy, which involves doing lots of little things with his
hand. "He's been feeding himself, provided everything is all prepared
for him, as he's still one-handed.  He's been able to position books in
such a fashion that he can read them.   He still has problem with
sensation.  If he closes his eyes, he often doesn't know what he's
feeling."



"We still don't know to what point he will recover."

"This past weekend marked the two-month point of hospitalization.  To
celebrate, he came home for the weekend.  They call it en permission
because they allowed it.  I guess it serves as a test to see how well
patients can handle life on the outside and provides a morale booster.
They let him out Friday afternoon after his last PT session (and after
another test on his left arm), and I took him back in on Sunday
evening.
It was a busy weekend, but he held up pretty well."

"There is still no indication as to when he'll be ready to come home
permanently."




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