Aaron Fox Update
Aaron Fox a 12 year old baseball player from Kentucky was injured on April 15th by a line drive to the head while pitching to a live batter at practice. Aaron plays for the Florence Storm. He suffered a traumatic brain injury and underwent surgery at Cincinnati Children's Hospital where he is recovering. Good morning, and we mean GOOD morning!!
Today, Aaron is moving to in-patient rehab, after some jockeying
back and forth by the different groups of evaluators and docs.
Because some of the docs unfortunately saw Aaron after he'd been
dosed with his withdrawal meds, they felt he was still too weak to
go. We wish they would come when he is awake and alert and ready to
rock and roll! Go figure that they can't come on our schedule ;).
Aaron's feeding tube came out last night (you don't need details!) and when they tried
(twice) to place it again, it triggered a nasty gag reflex. So now we
are going to really be pro-active in having Aaron take some really soft
foods, and push lots of fluids.
He is doing awesome following commands, and is gaining strength and
finer motor control with his left hand and arm.
New day, new challenges...keep those prayers and praises comin'!
Please pray specifically for Aaron's eating / nutrition and his
strength.
Mom and Dad's eating has been fantastic - many thanks to all who have
blessed us so. We will have to go to our own rehab to work off what we
are eating :-)
Love to all...
Posted 11 hours ago
Aaron continues to improve cognitively, asking really good
questions and beginning to grasp the very serious nature of what
happened to him. The docs all have really positive things to say,
and it is pretty much the consensus that Aaron will be kicked out
of PICU and be transferred to the In-patient Rehab. We hear that's
where all the action is--where kids really start to improve
measureably! We are very excited, although we will miss the
unbelievably awesome nurses, residents, fellows, and...