Dr. Bailes
Dr. Bailes
far predicting uncharted ways
We are in many ways in uncharted territory, as far as predicting his recovery.
measured months outlook predicting territory uncharted weeks
In many ways, we are in uncharted territory in predicting his recovery. The long-term outlook will be measured in weeks and months and not days.
brain early
It is probably too early for us to tell what that means, but it is very important to us that he has a lot of brain activity.
days few meaningful seen signs
I think every few days we have seen more and more responsiveness and meaningful neurological signs from him.
early great hoping
We're hoping for a great recovery, but it's just too early to know.
carbon likely longest sort survivors
He is likely one of the longest survivors of this sort of exposure, not only carbon monoxide, but the other circumstances in the mine.
confident early great patient seeing today
What you're seeing here today is a very early patient recovery. We are confident he is going to have a great outcome.
eyes family moves opening purposeful responds slight
He is opening his eyes. He has purposeful movements. He responds to his family in slight ways. He moves all extremities.
eyes looking
He has had an awakening. His eyes are open. He's looking around.
anna complete exceeded facility fairly home hoping recovery rehab soon year
He has exceeded our expectations, and the recovery has progressed rapidly. It will probably take a year or so for complete recovery, but we're hoping he's out of the rehab facility fairly soon and able to go home with Anna and the children.
confident good
We're confident that he's going to have a good outcome.
false hope
These are, we think, very important signs, perhaps, of an emergence. But we don't want to give false hope and we know that there is still a long way to go to making that recovery.
business care head severe taking
In this business of taking care of severe head injuries, little things make us happy.
best grab pain
The best he has done is (responding to) localized pain something he doesn't like. He comes up to grab your hand.