Kevin Everett Update!!!

[DallasCowpoke]

Reeve had a different kind of neck/spinal injury. He had what I believe is called a "Hangman's" injury or something like that. It's as if his head were pulled out of it's "Socket".


Not the same.

His injury (Reeve's), was a C1-C2 incomplete, and was exactly the same type of injury. The ONLY difference, as it is in every SCI, is possibly the level of the break/s and/or the initial damage to the spinal cord itself.

No offense meant, at this point. But if I were you, I'd keep my mouth SHUT on subjects you obviously know next to nothing about.

 

[Rack]

His injury (Reeve's), was a C1-C2 incomplete, and was exactly the same type of injury. The ONLY difference, as it is in every SCI, is possibly the level of the break/s and/or the initial damage to the spinal cord itself.

No offense meant, at this point. But if I were you, I'd keep my mouth SHUT on subjects you obviously know next to nothing about.

Sorry if I offended you, but If I feel I have some kind of knowledge of a matter, I'll voice my opinion. This is, afterall, an internet message board.


An excerpt at Amazon.com about Reeve's book "Still Me"...

Christopher Reeve has beaten the odds before. He scored his first role in a Euripides play at 15, costarred with Katharine Hepburn at 22, and was one of two advanced-program students accepted at Juilliard, to which 2,000 drama students annually apply. (The other advanced student became his best friend, Robin Williams.) Reeve rode a sailplane to 32,000 feet over Pikes Peak, fell 90 feet from a parasail harness into four feet of water and walked away. He survived emergency appendectomy, malaria in Kenya, and the disastrous film Changing Channels, with Burt Reynolds. He flew vintage airplanes upside down. On his first solo transatlantic flight, a radar controller informed him he was about to run out of gas 200 miles west of Iceland. The radar controller had misread his screen, and Reeve landed safely.
Then, in 1995, his horse balked at a 3-foot-3-inch racecourse fence, made an abrupt "dirty stop," Reeve's hands got tangled in the reins, he landed on his head and got a "hangman's injury"--a broken neck. Ace paramedics got oxygen to him 60 seconds before brain damage set in, and a helicopter named Pegasus lofted him to a hospital.

Reeve was already important. His interpretation of Superman was classic, and his starring role in The Bostonians launched the Merchant/Ivory school of filmmaking. But it was not until his paralysis that Reeve really got moving as a public figure of the first rank. As his memoir Still Me details, since the accident, Reeve has directed his first film, started the Christopher Reeve Foundation to fund spinal-cord-repair research, lobbied Congress, and crisscrossed the country on speaking engagements.

Says Reeve, "Lindbergh made it across the Atlantic [where he was feted by Reeve's grandma]; Houdini got out of those straitjackets; with enough money and grass-roots support, why shouldn't I be able to get out of this wheelchair?" Part Hollywood reminiscence, part scientific detective story, and part soapbox speech, Still Me explains the tantalizing but quite real possiblity that Reeve (and a quarter-million other paralyzed people, plus 49 million disabled Americans) may get back on their feet. Bobby Kennedy once tried to bolster Reeve's faith by saying, "Just fake it till you make it. The prayers will seem phony, but one day they'll become real." Christopher Reeve has more than a prayer, he has a program. He ain't fake, and he just might make it, leading a cast of millions. --Tim Appelo

Again, sorry if I offended you, but I don't come to public internet message boards to "Shut up".

 

[DallasCowpoke]

Again, sorry if I offended you, but I don't come to public internet message boards to "Shut up".

It's called a "hangman's" because it's a break at the C1 or C2, which essentially cuts EVERY reflex below the break from reaching the brain, and visa versa. Unless an airway is established immediately, you basically just suffocate because the messages from the brain that control breathing simply don't reach the lungs.

Reeve was lucky, a Dr was there at the jumping event, and literally established an airway w/ a pocketknife and a shaft from a ballpoint pen.

 

[Rack]

It's called a "hangman's" because it's a break at the C1 or C2, which essentially cuts EVERY reflex below the break from reaching the brain, and visa versa. Unless an airway is established immediately, you basically just suffocate because the messages from the brain that control breathing simply don't reach the lungs.

Reeve was lucky, a Dr was there at the jumping event, and literally established an airway w/ a pocketknife and a shaft from a ballpoint pen.

I did not know that. Thanks for educating me (not being sarcastic, I really am thankful).


I had read somewhere that it was called that because it was, essentially, a "Dislocated" neck. I should of researched it more at the time.

And I didn't know about the Doctor and the pocket knife. That's amazing. Doctors simply do not get enough credit for their work (if you can call saving lives "Work"). People only talk about doctors when they screw up, but they really should get more credit when they do great things like that.

Thanks for the correction, Taps.

 

[Jay-D]

No offense meant, at this point. But if I were you, I'd keep my mouth SHUT on subjects you obviously know next to nothing about.

Thanks for turning a thread with great news into a pissing contest.

Then again....no thanks.

 

[DaBoyz73]

I guess when you use the word G-O-D in a post the mods delete it, huh?

 

[Rack]

Thanks for turning a thread with great news into a pissing contest.

Then again....no thanks.

It's no big deal. I struck a nerve, unintentionally. Everything's cool now. I should of researched my info before posting it. Taps has since explained everything.


The point is, Everett is incredibly fortunate at this point (all things considered). Whether you want to thank God, Allah, doctors, or human will, it all points to the same thing, a very lucky man.


I hope his recovery continues at this pace and he's able to live a long, full life. I don't pray, but Everett is in my thoughts.

 

[CrazyCowboy]

just said on sports center that doctors now believe he will be able to walk again!!! that what power of prayer does.

Thank you LORD!

Best POST EVER!

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Today driving to lunch I was flipping around on the radio and happened across a local radio guy talking about this. Apparantly, he was in some kind of accident where he sustained a spinal cord injury and at first was told he'd never walk again. He said even though he had some tiny feeling in his legs and very slight movement in a swimming pool (where removing gravity makes all the difference), every doctor insisted he had no chance of ever walking. Finally he browbeat a doctor to tell him the off-the-record chances, and he said that if he really worked like crazy in rehab, he might have a chance. The doc then said he'd deny ever saying that if he had to.

From what the guy said, it's all for insurance (and I'm sure legal liability) purposes -- docs have to give the patients the most pessimistic scenario possible.

Anyway, the guy ended up being to walk. He still can't use one leg from the knee down and still has constant burning and pain, but he can at least get around somewhat.

That would kind of explain why so often you hear these terrible prognoses where the patient ends up beating the odds. The good news has to be that football players are used to hard work and pain, so you'd think they'd be diligent rehabbers.

 

[zrinkill]

Thank the Lord .....

Truly Gods hand was in this ..... sorry if that makes anyone uncomfortable.

Keep Everett in your prayers.

 

[Coy]

Thank God, It´s awful to see someone hurt like that, Everett was in My prayers, great news.

 

[1fisher]

I guess when you use the word G-O-D in a post the mods delete it, huh?

just keep in mind..... "Every knee shall bow".....

 

[1fisher]

Thank the Lord .....

Truly Gods hand was in this ..... sorry if that makes anyone uncomfortable.

Keep Everett in your prayers.

doesn't make me uncomfortable..... I know where MY strength comes from!

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

just said on sports center that doctors now believe he will be able to walk again!!! that what power of prayer does.

Amen!!

Truly miraculous, I was afraid he was going to be another Reggie Brown or Dennis Byrd.

Seems once a decade this horrific injury happens to someone in the NFL.

If he walks again he will be a living testimony.

Double AMEN

That news when I saw it on ESPN made my night!!!!!