Shepherd Center Archives - Slowly but Surely TBI

Third Time’s the Charm

Anthony Macchio - Young — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 02:26:29 +0000

This time last month (5/19/16, when I started writing this post) my parents and I were checking into our hotel room in Alexander City, Alabama. We were doing so in order to prepare ourselves to wake up early the following morning and make our way to Shepherd Center’s adaptive springtime camp Adventure Skills Workshop (ASW). …

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Best of the Best

Anthony Macchio - Young — Wed, 25 May 2016 16:30:58 +0000

My parents have been a HUGE benefit to my recovery and, of course, my life as a whole. With that being said, I’ve decided that this May blog posting will act as a belated Mother’s Day present AND an early Father’s Day present to the both of them! First and foremost, I have to start …

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Home Sweet Home

Anthony Macchio - Young — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 23:58:05 +0000

Today marks the two year anniversary of my parents and I making the trip back home to Mt. Pleasant, SC from Shepherd Center, as well as all the other inpatient treatments post accident.

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Stage 2: Inpatient Rehab

Anthony Macchio - Young — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 02:23:13 +0000

I started remembering what was happening and going on around me 2 weeks after ICU. While at Kentfield Rehab, in Marin County, California, the Speech Pathologist was working very hard on getting me to move my tongue and get some kind of sound out of me, but had no luck. In Physical Therapy I would mostly stand …

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Summer of 2014 is the Summer of Fun, Laughter and Recovery

Bill Macchio — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 02:08:27 +0000

During the summer of 2013, we were still fighting fevers, spells of vomiting and casts on one arm and one leg. There was an operation to implant a Baclofen pump just outside Anthony’s stomach, and another operation on the tendon in his foot. There was a constant flow of doctors, nurses and physical therapists. We …

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