By Lisa Ansay — Jul 18, 2012 7:06pm The powers that be have reconsidered their schedules, and found a spot on Friday that will work for his neurosurgeon and ENT for the sinus reconstruction. The oculoplastic surgeon and cranial/facial plastics doc will call back in the morning regarding the eye/orbit surgery details. :0)…
By Lisa Ansay — Jul 18, 2012 9:38am There are a few things up in the air right now, and we’re hoping to have some answers in the next few hours: Taylor has been running a fever of 101.5+ every morning for more than a week. The Infectious Disease doctor…
By Lisa Ansay — Jul 6, 2012 7:11pm There are a couple surgeries coming up: an ENT surgeon will address the frontal sinus fractures (in the lower forehead); a cranial/facial plastic surgeon will take care of the eye socket/orbit, cheek, and whatever else necessary. It has not yet been decided if all…
By Lisa Ansay — Jun 26, 2012 9:38pm Today was the appointment with the ophthalmologist Taylor was referred to by his plastic surgeon. This particular ophthalmologist works a lot with facial trauma as an oculoplastic surgeon. Oculoplastic Surgery is a surgical subspecialty of Ophthalmology that deals with the medical and…
By Lisa Ansay — Jun 25, 2012 8:25pm This is the schedule board posted near the Nurses’ Station, which is how the rehab patients are booked for each day. As you can see, these are very full days for everyone. One column per patient – T is NR02W, or the second populated…
By Ron Stark — Jun 19, 2012 11:28pm After a full day of all of his normal therapies Taylor was wheeled down to yet another surgery to replace his faulty PEG (feeding tube) The surgeon said it would be quick and would require only a local anesthesia. Well Mr heal-fast…
By Lisa Ansay — Jun 19, 2012 11:50am Taylor has been complaining about his PEG line for two weeks – where the feeding tube goes into his belly was painful. He was also having some trouble keeping his food down, as his belly would not tolerate much volume at all. …
By Lisa Ansay — Jun 16, 2012 3:43am Taylor has a much deserved weekend off. He has been pushing himself hard, and could use some time to restore and recharge, and he’s very looking forward to it. Fevers have been coming on again, and his infectious disease team has decided…
By Lisa Ansay — Jun 13, 2012 6:38pm As you have been reading, PT, OT, and ST have all been going well, and as expected, the PT has been going exceedingly well. He walks daily for hundreds of feet, pedals bikes, works the cross-body legs and arms machine (that’s much like an…
By Ron Stark — Jun 9, 2012 10:13pm What a work week for Taylor. Rehab to surgery to recovery and back to rehab, he was one busy and now a very tired young man. Saturday was a normal work day for him with all of his different therapy teams visiting…
