Monday, June 20, 2022

LESSONS LEARNED FROM A PARENT AND CAREGIVER

 OF AN INDIVIDUAL LIVING WITH SPINAL CORD INJURY

The hour-plus wait between impact and arrival at a hospital robbed David of the “golden hour,” the precious time to immediately treat brain trauma and spinal cord injury (SCI).

Thankfully, the passenger in the car that hit him was an ICU nurse and a group on a fishing outing nearby happened to be composed of physicians.

“He was life flighted. He had to be revived three times. 

He was in a coma for a month. He was in rehab a couple more months,” Folgueiras said of her precious little boy.

“He had spinal cord bleed. 

He was deprived of oxygen. 

He has respiratory and other issues.”

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