making progress…
Thursday, April 15, 2004
I got another update from my parents about my brother...
He is starting to become aware of things. The nurses will ask him to do things (move his finger, etc), and he responds by doing what they ask.
Sometime last night my dad was talking to him, and my brother opened his eyes & mumbled. That was the first time he'd done that since he's been in the hospital.
So he's making progress, which is good. Now we just wait and see just how much damage his brain suffered in the injury.
Even though my parents haven't mentioned the doctors bringing up this term, I found it at
The Brain Injury Association's webpage:
Coup-Contrecoup Injury
- Coup-Contrecoup Injury describes contusions that are both at the site of the impact and on the complete opposite side of the brain.
- This occurs when the force impacting the head is not only great enough to cause a contusion at the site of impact, but also is able to move the brain and cause it to slam into the opposite side of the skull, which causes the additional contusion.
Since they originally told us he had an injury to his frontal lobe, and then that there is also a fracture at the base of his skull (which I can only assume means there is an injury to the brain there, as well), it would seem this applies.. except I don't think they've ever used the word "contusion" when referring to his injuries... Whether that means they don't consider the injuries to be contusions, or they just prefer not to describe them that way, I don't know.
This, of course, is my own speculation, based on what we've been told by the doctors. I think when I talk to my parents next I'll ask them if they can get a "full story" from the doctors and to ask them to use the technical terminology when referring to any injuries to his brain (call it what it is, people). I don't think they deserve any less than the real explanation.
That's all, folks...
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