veryrichbryan
03-09-2007, 03:07 PM
I'm a friend and co-worker of Kim Thompson's Mom, Sandy.
Kim was riding with family in the Mojave about 3 weeks ago. Kim went down hard and sustained a serious head injury. She was medivaced to Kern County Hospital where she still is critical. She had part of her skull removed to allow for brain swelling, the part is still removed and we are hoping it will be re-attached sometime next week. How much damage is still to be determined. She can speak some and knows whom some of the family are. She is pretty heavily sedated for pain. She has been going through Pneumonia and some staff infections, some of the normal problems with being down for three weeks. This week she dealt with a collapsed lung. She is a fighter and being so she also pulled out her feeding tube out of her stomach, so she had another surgery on Wednesday to put the feeding tube back in. They had to leave the incision open irrigate the abdomen to clear out anything that got in there from the tube being yanked out. Kim is 23 years old and a single mom with a two year old daughter.
Kim and her daughter were living with her mom Sandy until Kim finished college. Sandy is very hard working divorced mother. Sandy is working two jobs trying to get ahead and provide for her family. They call Sonora, CA home so this is quite a struggle Sandy trying to stay with her daughter in the hospital in Bakersfield and keep house in Sonora. It looks like rehab. will be in Fresno which is still a 3 hour drive.
Please pass on your prayers for Kim's quick recovery.
Bryan
Kim was riding with family in the Mojave about 3 weeks ago. Kim went down hard and sustained a serious head injury. She was medivaced to Kern County Hospital where she still is critical. She had part of her skull removed to allow for brain swelling, the part is still removed and we are hoping it will be re-attached sometime next week. How much damage is still to be determined. She can speak some and knows whom some of the family are. She is pretty heavily sedated for pain. She has been going through Pneumonia and some staff infections, some of the normal problems with being down for three weeks. This week she dealt with a collapsed lung. She is a fighter and being so she also pulled out her feeding tube out of her stomach, so she had another surgery on Wednesday to put the feeding tube back in. They had to leave the incision open irrigate the abdomen to clear out anything that got in there from the tube being yanked out. Kim is 23 years old and a single mom with a two year old daughter.
Kim and her daughter were living with her mom Sandy until Kim finished college. Sandy is very hard working divorced mother. Sandy is working two jobs trying to get ahead and provide for her family. They call Sonora, CA home so this is quite a struggle Sandy trying to stay with her daughter in the hospital in Bakersfield and keep house in Sonora. It looks like rehab. will be in Fresno which is still a 3 hour drive.
Please pass on your prayers for Kim's quick recovery.
Bryan