Purrs for Chris and his family.

Absolutely. Sending our best.

Dan

Purrs and prayers for Chris, and all who care about him.

"Christina Websell" <spamfree@tinawebsell.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote

Purrs for the family coming through now, loud (if not clear)

Fish supper has just been served and the contentment is palpable.

Gordon & the FF

Sending purrs and prayers for Chris and his family.  MLB

Purrs and prayers for your friend's son. We hope everything
works out for the best.

Lily & her mama

We are sending our best purrs for Chris.

Purrs and prayers on the way.

Ann

Many purrs and good thoughts for Chris to recover and get back to his
family quickly!

Chris and cats (since I can't purr, but I can pray)

Many, many purrs and prayers.

Helen M

PURRS AND PRAYERS IN ROUTE

ABsolutley!!!! Purrs en route. How sad. Ihope it is not as bad as they
think. People can surprise doctors often.

Purrs on the way.

Our purrs and prayers are with Chris and his family in this most
difficult time.

Sam, closely supervised by Mistletoe

Many purrs on the way, preferably for recovery.

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purrs and prayers on the way

On 15 Nov., 19:55, "Christina Websell"
<spamf...@tinawebsell.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote:

Praying and purring for Chris and his family.

Thank you all so much for your purrs and prayers for Chris.  I have pasted
all your replies into a mail to Margi tonight.  I hope it will give her a
little comfort to know that Chris is being purred and prayed for all over
the world.

I am not sure that the medics at the football match got to him in enough
time.  They probably thought he'd gone down from a tackle and was playing to
the crowd.  By the time they realised he was not going to get up it may have
been too late for his brain.  They administered mouth to mouth resuscitation
and CPR and when the paramedics arrived they had a defibrillator which
started his heart again, but very erratically.

The latest update from Margi is below.  To be frank, it still does not sound
good to me but I have no experience around brain injury.  Is there anyone
here who has?
.............
Dear All Its 10.30pm and I am tempted to leave this and go to bed but I
know that some of you will be glad to get a little more good news. They
tried to wake Chris again this morning with improved results. He was
settled for a while and followed the sound of the nurse as she moved
around his bed. Unfortunately he soon began to gag on the ventilator tube
and that made him cough and wretch, which panicked him and that put up
his blood pressure and his heartbeat became too fast. Although I am
saying that he panicked and wretched and gagged he is not in a fully
conscious state so it is not a problem to him like it would be for us. It
is the reactions he makes to the lack of sedation that they are looking
at and today he made no 'inappropriate movements'. They are happy to
admit that he has made a positive move forward but are still telling us
not to get too excited and anticipate too much. Its hard not to when you
can see evidence of the son you thought you may have lost all trace of
slowly coming out of a dark place. It was explained to us that whatever
he can do the first time he is without sedation is no indication at all
of what he may be able to achieve in the very long term. The senior
sister who is the head of the unit also said that in the time she has
worked in ITU [about 16 years] she has very rarely seen anyone come out
of sedation without being confused, agitated and generally unaware of
their surroundings.  His last recollections would be of a time when he
could see and move spontaneously, as he slowly comes off the sedation he
will not be able to focus [or perhaps even see] he will be in strange
surroundings and fitted with all sorts of drips and of course the
ventilator. It would be enough to upset most of us. Again we need to bear
in mind that even when he is off sedation his brain will be damaged so
his level of consciousness could be quite low.  He recognised Bambi again
today and again we think he was trying to communicate because he opened
his eyes and tried to focus. He has been moving around on the bed more
today. Moving his head, legs and arms [to get comfortable????????] They
are saying that although he is not able to move his limbs by concsious
thought, he is still making better arm and leg movements than he was on
Monday. This too is encouraging.    He is having less oxygen in the
air provided by the ventilator and this proves that there is more lung
area available to absorb the oxygen he is breathing in. This means that
his chest is now recovering. This hasnt been the case so far.  Its been a
90% forward and only 10% questionable day today, and as far as I can
remember [which is asking a bit much] I think they are the best
statistics so far.     |I'm off to bed - I cant wait to see what happens
tomorrow ...................................will let you
know...................... Love Margi

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I think he will not recover to any sort of "useful life" like he would want
to.  I cannot possibly share this thought with Margi, his mother, who is at
his bedside taking hope from any little movement.
Maybe all the purrs and prayers will work, let's hope so.

Tweed

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Purrs and prayers are working.  Please keep them up.

Today:
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Dear All, Today Chris was able to sit propped up in bed and managed to
eat a couple of tubs of ice cream that the nurse fed to him. The oxygen
mask has been replaced with a tube that sits in the bottom of his
nostrils so he is now breathing for himself with the aid of a bit of
extra oxygen supplied from the tube. When I left tonight he was
listening to Reeba McIntyre on CD and tapping the rhythm out on the bed.
He had quite a few family visit today and he was laughing at some of
their stories. He enjoyed looking at family photos and remembered being
in each of the places. By the end of the day he had spoken a few words
even though we weren't able to understand what he said. It wasn't that
they weren't real words but his throat is so sore his voice is very gruff
and quiet. He gave Bambi a kiss and sipped on water. He is still in bed
and obviously we are not able to tell how mobile he will be. Some of his
movements are slow and he sometimes he looks a bit surprised that his
hands don't move as quickly as he expects but his progress is remarkable,
much faster than we thought. There is still some prayers left to say but
the miracle that we all prayed for is unfolding before our very eyes. We
are expecting an all singing, all dancing Chris tomorrow. Love as always
Margi
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As always, the purrs and prayers work.  Keep those P&P's coming please.
Look what they've done, already.
Thank you all so much.

Tweed