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Posted: Mar. 05 2010,8:28 am |
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Some of you are aware that my friend's nephew was in a horrific mountain bike vs truck accident 2 weeks ago this coming Sunday. Â The news we got last Sunday was the second worst news it could be...the docs felt that Marlo's recovery would be minimal. Â Not a vegetable, but not much hope for any sort of normal life and any progress would take years. Â It was devastating news to hear that this vibrant young life was essentially gone. Â But I've been reading about Kevin Pearce's recovery, and I was clinging to hope. Â I knew Marlo's twin sister was on her way to El Paso from Oman, and I believed that if anyone could break through to him it would be her. Â Late last night I got an email from my friend...I'll copy part of it here:
| Quote | Marlo's twin sis is there now from Oman and last night he tried to walk to the bathroom and fell (Nobody was watching him and I think he's just so tired of being in that darn bed that at some level of thought, he just decided he was gonna do what he wanted! Nobody even knew he could move at that point. So there's good news all round, really - the fall didn't hurt him anymore than he's already injured, and today I was on the phone with Sara, his twin, and she says he knows her, and Nana (me) and a few other people when she says their names. She sang a Girl Scout song I taught them when they were about 8 and he liked it, and when I was on the phone with her she was by his bed and he even said "I'm thirsty" - undoubtedly an aftereffect of the breathing tube. I've had one myself a couple of times for operations and I couldn't figure out why my throat hurt after they operated on my shoulder! And mine were like six hours of forced breathing, where his is what - 10 days?!! So when they took him off the tubes last night, of course he was thirsty! But a well-though out, intentional sentence, even if short, must be an awfully good sign, right?
But seriously - isn't this amazing? What a roller coaster it's already been and I expect that it will be for quite some time, but such an amazing series of good things all in about 12 hours! (Except the deciding to get up and walk to the bathroom and falling down part). They dropped the ball on that one, and now there are signs all over his room that he's fine if people are there but if anybody steps out even for a minute, Marlo has to be restrained to the bed in case he decides to go for a walk. Which we never even thought would be an issue, given his condition - so getting up and walking and falling down is good news! I think the main reason for the fall was that he wasn't aware that they had set his fractured ankle and the cast is pretty big. Obviously after what he's been through there are other reasons, mainly being bed-bound for that long makes you weak anyway, but given his very strong, coordinated body, I like to think it was the cast that tripped him up. |
Here is a young man with injuries equated to a human cannonball without a net...with very little hope of walking or speaking again, and he did both! Â I knew Sara would be able to connect with him, and combined with the prayers coming from all over the world, we got our miracle! Â Obviously he's got a long way to go, and he's certainly not out of the woods...but this is more than we even dreamed possible a week ago. Â I can't stop the tears.  Â 
So many of my friends have been praying for Marlo, including you guys here. Â Your only connection to him is through me, but that was enough. Â I can't begin to thank you enough for your support.
I wear a necklace with a line from a stanza of a poem by Emily Dickinson. Â I never take it off and have touched it often these last 2 weeks.
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune--without the words,
And never stops at all.
Never give up hope...and never stop believing in miracles.  Â 
Thank you, my friends!  Â 
"This is for all the friends I've known, this is for all the ones who've never left me alone. This is for all the ones I've lost along the way...thanks for being a part of today."
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But I did get an update. Marlo is out of ICU and the hospital completely! 
