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- Tue Jan 13, 2004 2:03 am
- Forum: Newly Injured TBPI
- Topic: Contacts for Australia
- Replies: 6
- Views: 821
Re: Contacts for Australia
To the replies we received, thank you very much. We appreciate your assistance and will follow through with your suggestions/contacts. Regards Karen
- Fri Jan 09, 2004 3:38 am
- Forum: Newly Injured TBPI
- Topic: Contacts for Australia
- Replies: 6
- Views: 821
Contacts for Australia
<t>Hi There<br/> <br/> On behalf of my brother I am looking for a bpi specialist/s in Australia that we can contact. I have found alot of information on the USA and Britain but nothing in Australia.<br/> <br/> Any assistance would be appreciated. This Sunday will be 8 weeks since the accident. We ar...
- Mon Jan 05, 2004 9:46 pm
- Forum: Newly Injured TBPI
- Topic: new injury
- Replies: 5
- Views: 799
Re: new injury
<t>Hi TJones<br/> <br/> I can only feel for you at this moment and send my prayer's. My brother's injury was from a motorcycle/car accident. My brother's injury is avulsion of the 5 nerves. It has been 7 weeks since the accident. We live in Australia and have found limited information and consult re...
- Sun Dec 14, 2003 12:41 am
- Forum: Newly Injured TBPI
- Topic: BPI Surgery on TV - Mayo Clinic Documentary Schedule Change
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2429
Re: BPI Surgery on TV - Mayo Clinic Documentary Schedule Change
<t>Hi Ellen<br/> <br/> You replied to my earlier message regarding my brother. We live in Australia and I am finding information very limiting here. I have accessed the mayo clinic website but at the moment find it a wee limiting due to a number of issues. I have also tried to access the discovery h...
- Sun Dec 14, 2003 12:32 am
- Forum: Newly Injured TBPI
- Topic: Early stages of injury - your insight would be very much appreciated.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 913
Re: Early stages of injury - your insight would be very much appreciated.
<t>Courtney<br/> <br/> The morphine is only just enough to calm him. The pain is definitely still there. He is also on lignecane (not sure of the spelling). A low level anesthetic that is delivered via IV. It is his fourth day today on this drug. A small improvement has been made but the msmorph, li...
- Sun Dec 14, 2003 12:27 am
- Forum: Newly Injured TBPI
- Topic: Early stages of injury - your insight would be very much appreciated.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 913
Re: Early stages of injury - your insight would be very much appreciated.
Hi Ellen
We appreciate your response. We are meeting with my brother's consultant tomorrow morning. I will present your experience and see where that leads us.
Thank you again.
K, G & J
We appreciate your response. We are meeting with my brother's consultant tomorrow morning. I will present your experience and see where that leads us.
Thank you again.
K, G & J
- Fri Dec 12, 2003 7:33 pm
- Forum: Newly Injured TBPI
- Topic: Early stages of injury - your insight would be very much appreciated.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 913
Re: Early stages of injury - your insight would be very much appreciated.
<t>Hi Courtney<br/> <br/> Thank you for your reply. I have read a little about keeping busy during the pain to distract your focus. My brother has been trying this and it hasn't helped him so far. It might be different once he is out of hospital and is up and about. He still has injuries which preve...
- Fri Dec 12, 2003 11:22 am
- Forum: Newly Injured TBPI
- Topic: Early stages of injury - your insight would be very much appreciated.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 913
Early stages of injury - your insight would be very much appreciated.
<t>Hi Again and thanks to those people who replied to my last email. My brother is in his 4th week of recovering from his bike/car collision resulting in tbpi. <br/> <br/> What his fiance and I are wanting to grasp a hold of is how long does the fierce/horrendous pain continue? (We have read many st...
- Mon Dec 08, 2003 9:36 am
- Forum: Newly Injured TBPI
- Topic: Request for Assistance
- Replies: 2
- Views: 804
Request for Assistance
<t>Hi There<br/> <br/> My name is Karen and I am writing this on behalf of my brother who is still in hospital. Jamie is a very recent victim of TBPI. We are frustrated at the slow rate with which the medical team in our regional hospital are diagnosing and treating his injury. He has been in hospit...