Grant Korgan has been making amazing progress since starting with Dr. Zhu (San Jose, CA). With the works of Dr. Zhu, Ladd Williams, and Bird Lew this warrior is going to be re-conquering mountains sooner than you think. Grant has been devoted to the goal of relearning to walk, run, bike, ski, snomobile, etc. since the day of his accident. With his loving wife Shawna by his side , the crew at High Fives, and the great people in his recovery process, this warrior will summit again!
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Becca Babicz representing at TRAINS2010
High Fives will continue to update the progression of Becca’s recovery. Becca is also a Smith Optics and Helmets athlete that I sponsor in the winter, so this recovery has double importance to me. Continue to push the positive throttle towards healing
4/16/2010 (words by Roy)
On Friday, Adam B and I went down to the hospital to visit with Brennan, his parents, and give a High Five to Sean Hartel. I want this post to be more about what Sean has written below but Adam and I were blown away by what we saw in the ICU from Brennan. It was a trippy experience for me, as Brennan is in room #120 in the ICU and I spent 3 days in room #119, the one right next door four years ago when I suffered my life-altering injury. It was the first time back to the area and it brought back a good amount of emotions, thoughts, and memories.
Now, back to the part about Brennan blowing my mind, it all happened when Adam B and I said our goodbyes. As we said goodbye to Brennan, he looked up at Adam and I, waved and gave us a head nod. He had just acknowledged us for coming to visit and then when we said goodbye, he did the same. This was motivating to experience and I still have not accepted how incredible this is for Brennan. High Five brother, we are going to be here the whole time to help with your recovery along this path.
Keep drawing the sharks!
4/18/10 (words by Sean Hartel)
Brennan is starting to get back into his night and day mode. He slept like a baby most of the night and woke up about 45 minutes ago just before the sun came up. They are slowly lowering his dosage of Versed every day, but he’d not off it yet. The tough part about Versed is that it’s an amnesiac, so every time he wakes up he doesn’t remember what’s going on. He’s usually scared and confused, so each time we have to explain the situation and reassure him that everything is going to be ok. After our little explanation session this morning he was quite cooperative when assigned a task, although he does try to escape from bed every five minutes. So I think it’s good to keep him busy until he’s exhausted.
Every time he got himself in an awkward position trying to escape, I’d tell him how to readjust himself and he’d do it. I had him do a few leg lifts while I put pillows under his feet (a difficult task after sitting in bed for 19 days). Then we’d have him pull himself upright when he got all crooked (until today, we’d usually have to do it for him). Then he cleaned his face with a wet rag I gave him, brushed his own teeth (pretty thoroughly actually), etc…
Once he finished cleaning himself up, I asked him to give us a smile for the camera!
Brennan Dekeersgieter