I am sorry to hear about your son's accident.
I was on a ventilator with high fevers following my accident, but fortunately the fevers subsided after four or five months. Clearly some facilities are much better than others. Would your insurance allow you to move your son to another state with better facilities? I'm curious... is your son on a ventilator? If he is on a ventilator, this dramatically lowers your list of options. I would also like to know: what is an M VA 4-10-10 ? Unfortunately, there are some very nasty bugs which are spread in hospitals. If the primary problems deal with infections and fevers, maybe the best thing is to try to find the best doctor you can you could help you get these infections under control. I'm sorry to have any magic answers for you. But I am very glad that you found this forum. This forum is the best resource which I have found with the day-to-day issues and problems and complications related to quadriplegia. Take care, Dave Krehbiel From: Rene Bullard [mailto:moip...@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 2:25 PM To: quad-list@eskimo.com Subject: [QUAD-L] Unidentified subject! Well, I'm new to the SCI club. My 19 yr. old son had a M VA 4-10-10 that left him with a c 6-7. The prob is we have been sick from day 1. After 20 weeks in ICU 4 with rehab that we could not do because sick all the time. We got home late Aug.of 2010 and been back to hospital 95% of the time. In the last month we have been home 3-4 days.Well this past fri. we were at OU hospital and they told me theres nothing rong with him other then drug withdrows............. We went in this time as for all the past : 102.6 temp, vometing, sweating, pain, UTI, not eatting . OU called back to tell me has staff again #3 for that one. I just don't know were to turn there is no place in ok. That I have found to help him get better. He is going down fast !!!
