{"id":154,"date":"2018-02-22T10:14:18","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T17:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/?p=154"},"modified":"2024-06-30T11:54:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T17:54:54","slug":"12-weeks-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"12 weeks yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was 12 weeks since I was hit at the intersection of Lomas and Tramway by the hit-and-run driver in a white SUV.\u00a0 Through this process, there&#8217;s been huge support from my partner &#8212; who has been there every day for me &#8212; and from my family both with visits from the UK and electronically.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a progress timeline for 3 months, from lying in the ICU struggling to breathe with everyone in huge doubts as to how much brain damage to being back at work and functioning.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 hour later I was in the ER with extensive trauma and &#8216;in acute pain due to trauma&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>1 day later they performed emergency surgery to restore my airway and manage the facial, laryngeal, and jaw breaks\n<ul>\n<li>Lots of double vision from the orbital breaks and the muscles around my eyes not working<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>6 days later they performed ORIF surgery and fixed my hip and pelvis breaks<\/li>\n<li>On the 9th of December (11 days) I got out of bed and to a chair on a walker for the first time<\/li>\n<li>On the 13th, the tracheotomy and NG feeding tubes were removed<\/li>\n<li>On the 14th, I was released from UNMH to a rehabilitation facility, still on a walker\n<ul>\n<li>Heather&#8217;s care increased here, since my jaw was wired and I was both anemic and malnourished. Their feeding did not help this<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>On the 18th, I returned home\n<ul>\n<li>The freeway trip was terrifying, as the double vision was so bad.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>On the 2nd of January, I started more formal PT and range of motion, strength, and other exercises for the pelvis.<\/li>\n<li>8th of January the jaw wiring was removed and further checks on the vocal cords. Still paralysed, but I was louder<\/li>\n<li>PT continues, including cycling on a stationary recumbent bike. It was 2-3 hours a day or low impact static exercises, but I was out on disability leave<\/li>\n<li>31st of January, additional surgery was performed to medialize the paralysed vocal cord and inspect it better. This restored some, but not a lot of voice<\/li>\n<li>Early February I drove for the first time; the double vision so reduced as the breaks around my eyes healed more completely. Driving was not an issue<\/li>\n<li>13th of February I got permission to &#8216;weight bear as tolerated&#8217; from my ortho surgeon. I was able to tolerate walking out of his office.<\/li>\n<li>14th of February I drove myself to PT and was able to get weight bearing exercises and walk without crutches around the house. In fact, I&#8217;ve barely used crutches since then. That&#8217;s almost exactly 11 weeks since the accident.<\/li>\n<li>14th of February I was able to return to work, and to use a regular bicycle on a turbo trainer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking at 3 more months of PT, but I&#8217;m happy with the progress. Heather&#8217;s support has been amazing. I&#8217;ve had a good PT. And I&#8217;m the luckiest unlucky guy alive &#8212; no brain damage, no cervical damage, and my surgeries have all gone well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was 12 weeks since I was hit at the intersection of Lomas and Tramway by the hit-and-run driver in a white SUV.\u00a0 Through this process, there&#8217;s been huge support from my partner &#8212; who has been there every day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.expatbrit.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}