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Annette Asbury
ON JANUARY 14, 2000 AT 1:00P.M. MY 9 YEAR OLD SON HAD JUST GOTTEN ON THE SCHOOL BUS AND WAS HEADING HOME FOR HIS 3 DAY WEEKEND. THE PROBLEM IS HE NEVER MADE IT HOME FOR 90 DAYS, THE DRIVER OF THE BUS WAS FEELING LUCKY AND PULLED OUT IN FROUNT OF A SIMI TRUCK GOING 55 MPH. MY BABY WAS AIR LIFTED TO U.V.A. HOSPITAL. HE HAD A TRAMATIC BRAIN INJURY AND A BROKEN LEG.HE NEVER KNEW OF HIS LEG BECAUSE IT HAD HEALED BEFORE HE CAME OUT OF HIS COMA. THE SWELLING ON HIS BRAIN WOULDN'T GO DOWN SO ON JAN. 17,00 HIS FROUNTAL BONE WAS REMOVED. A DAY OR SO LATER HE CAME DOWN WITH NEWMONIEA IN HIS RIGHT LUNG, A TUBE WAS PUT IN TO DRAIN THE FLUID. ON JAN. 27,00 HE WAS MOVED TO K.C.R.C. REHAB. STILL IN A COMA.

THE DETAILS WOULD TAKE FOREVER SO I WILL JUST SAY HE DID WAKE UP VERY SLOWY AND BEGAN PROGRESSING. ON APRIL 4,00 HIS BONE WAS PUT BACK IN HIS HEAD AND WE CAME HOME APRIL 14,00. HE WAS DOING GREAT AND WE THOUGHT THE NIGHTMARE WAS ALMOST OVER WHEN WE STARTED FEELING HOLES THROUGHTOUT THE FROUNT OF HIS HEAD. WE LATER FOUND OUT HIS BODY HAD REJECTED THE BONE, SO ON DEC. 29,00 HE ONCE AGAIN HAD TO UNDERGO SURGERY TO HAVE A PLATE PUT IN. ITS BEEN 5 WEEKS SENCE HIS SURGERY AND HE IS WAITING TO SEE THE DR. AGAIN ON FEB.15, 01 TO SEE WHAT SORT OF ACCTIVITY HE CAN DO. HIS LIFE HAS BEEN TORN APART PEICE BY PEICE. AS THE MOTHER I WATCH THE SADNESS GROW WITH EACH PASSING DAY. IF THERE IS ANYONE OUT THERE WHO WOULD LIKE TO NO MORE ABOUT MY SON OR HIS RECOVERY FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL ME ANYTIME. I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU.

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