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I'll bet he doesn't do that again, but that's a HARD way to learn.
I'll bet he doesn't do that again, but that's a HARD way to learn.
if he makes a full recovery, if that’s possible!
What great advice! Thanks for your story!You'd be surprised, I was. I broke 19 bones, and was off my feet for three months. I lost 50 pounds during that time, and I had not started out overweight. The nurses and doctors were excellent, encouraging, and optimistic within reason. It has taken a few years, and I have well exceeded their and my own expectations of recovery. I remember looking forward to 80% recovery with hope - I'm 95% the person I was before, and better in some ways. I don't teach flying any more any more, but I still fly, and do everything else in life I want to do, other than run fast. Now I run like one of the 1960's TV show Thunderbirds puppets (the 5%) - but, I can run!
The advice given to me as I woke up from the coma day four, was move everything I can, as much as I can. Difficult, when the metal rings are around one leg, and your other arm in is a sling, while you lie in bed. But you know, as much as I could, at every stage of recovery, I moved as much as I could, as long as I could. I did rehab as directed for three years, and still do the assigned exercises to this day. So I hope this fellow, and anyone else who suffers a major accident, is simply given the advice to move as much as possible and permitted, as long as your energy allows. Walk when you can instead of any other way of getting around, take the stairs instead of the elevator/escalator, bicycle instead of drive, split your firewood by hand, and wrestle with your grandkids. Each is it's own reward, but simply by doing, you will be able to do more. I pity the somewhat able bodied people who allow themselves to become more a victim by relenting to difficulty in moving - fight to move, be healthy, and enjoy life, rather than allowing some immobility to define you.
And, as I have said, I always apply the parking brake, and lower all implements to the ground, or otherwise lock them out, because, I have learned the truth of: If you think safety is expensive, try an accident!