Tuesday, December 9, 2014, was my one year anniversary at Roper St. Francis’s Outpatient Rehab, so my dad was nice enough to supply lunch for everyone in the department today. It felt awesome to say thank you! [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6WK9xEAteE&index=18&list=PLM-1zOTJ-UZIH3TL2iV40xvqleaNhMwyg[/youtube]
Tag: Recovery
1/2 Mile
Can’t believe I forgot to post this on here, but I managed to walk a little over a half mile (2,300 steps/2 laps) around a Scotts Creek pond!
Stage 2: Inpatient Rehab
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 …
Root of the Problem
Hello blogging world, Anthony Macchio-Young here. I am going to be responsible for updating my blog from this post on, give my Pops a break. Figured I’d start with the root of the story with the bicycle accident and how I got my TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury). It all started 6 days after moving to …
Summer of 2014 is the Summer of Fun, Laughter and Recovery
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 …