Kickas.org Forums Ankylosing Spondylitis General Discussion #1 AS Web Support Group Update on DanInDC (well NM now)

Dan poked his head in and with his permission, I'm posting an update on his progress since the car accident.

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Thank you for asking how I was doing since the accident. Well, my progress has been much more than they had guessed. Since I wasn’t expected to live, that’s not that hard to do. Thanks to a very supportive mother, and a great family, and some great friends, including you all from KA, I’m doing great. I don’t think that I can express enough the gratitude that I feel for everyone for all of your responses to my brother’s post, which my family printed and brought to me to read to pass the time in the hospital and to lift my spirits. As well as for all of the prayers.

I now wear glasses due to the head injury, but I guess that’s a small price to pay for being alive. Aside from a few falls due to lack of balance, and one big fall last week because of a bad reaction to medicine, I have been walking around great. I have gone from a wheel chair to a walker, to a cane, and now, nothing. Seeing as to the staff at the last hospital thought that I would never walk again, I’d say that I am doing pretty good. I have even found a way to use my time working for a cause. I went to one of the Brain Injury Association of New Mexico’s meetings, and a new friend of mine there asked me to be on the board of directors after he found out about my work with Power Over Pain, which is related to my baby, POP, in that people with Brain Injuries usually tend to have life long chronic pain after their injury. So, I’ve learned something, being that chronic pain is often a result of a Brain Injury, and they have gotten me to help. So that adds another condition to the list of chronic painful diseases that fall within Power Over Pain’s scope, and I get some experience working with people who have been in the game a lot longer that I have been.

To all of my friends here at KA Thank you all,
Take care and I hope that this finds you all well,

Daniel

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Ian

Thanks for sharing Ian.

Dan, it is great to hear how wonderful you are doing. You keep taking care of you.

Congrats on the the board of directors offer. Very impressive.

Hugs
Lori

Ian,

Thanks for sharing.

It sounds like Dan has been thru a horrible ordeal.

For him to be here now is a miracle.

I am sure he still has a long road ahead, but maybe we can still wish him well and send him good wishes that he can read from here.

Lisa