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Showing posts with label Medicine Health Traumatic Brain Injury. Show all posts
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Monday, June 20, 2011

In an instant by Steve Berryman in the Frederick News-Post

In an instant
| Steve Berryman | By: | 06/17/11 | 516 words  http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/opinion/display_comments_columnist.htm?section=sBerryman&storyID=122530#postComments

The two vehicles accidentally approached each other; both swerved to avoid, unfortunately in the same direction. Some estimates are that the combined impact of a car going 25 mph and a scooter going 15 would be similar to hitting a cement wall at 40....

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Alex "Big Al" Bodroghy's life changed in an instant on the Sunday of the Wegmans grand opening. The community was buzzing over gorgeous weather; a hot air balloon lofted over Dearbought toward Ceresville Mansion, and in Waterside a motor scooter collided head-on with a car.


The two vehicles accidentally approached each other; both swerved to avoid, unfortunately in the same direction. Some estimates are that the combined impact of a car going 25 mph and a scooter going 15 would be similar to hitting a cement wall at 40.


The scooter was a mangled mess; no helmet had been worn.


Later, doctors said it was only "by the grace of God" that his neck had not snapped, but worse, Al suffered severe head trauma...  http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/opinion/display_comments_columnist.htm?section=sBerryman&storyID=122530#postComments






See also: June 20, 2011 Promised to No Man Steven R. Berryman in The Tentacle: http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=4468

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Steven R. Berryman The Tentacle: Promised to No Man

June 20, 2011

Promised to No Man
Steven R. Berryman  http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=4468
My family and I have been living in an “altered state of awareness” since the recent motor scooter accident involving a 19-year-old close family friend, Alex Bodroghy, of Discovery in Walkersville.

He’s one of those children who hangs out with my eldest son and seems to just be another appendage to our clan. He’s been in the ICU of R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center of The University of Maryland Hospital in Baltimore for almost two weeks now, and receives 24/7 care to stay alive. He suffered a massive brain injury.

His prognosis is uncertain, and he’s still not always stable.

There’s hope, but everyone involved knows that it will be a very long road to even get him fully stabilized, let alone allow for a semblance of normalcy.

Last Friday The Frederick News-Post ran in my regular Friday column space “In an instant,” which covered the crash and aftermath of the head-on collision, linked here in my blog: In an instant [traumatic brain injury] ...

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See www.CaringBridge.com/visit/AlexBodroghy to follow the story.

To contribute to the family’s massive needs there is a site set up now: “Support Big Al Bodroghy” P.O. Box 103, Walkersville, MD, 21793


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