Dreadful News (Eva Markham)

These tradgedies sure put all the BS around here into perspective. Stay positive!!

That's really sad my prayers for her!

Best wishes on a full recovery Eva.

Best wishes

No truer words spoken!

My thoughts and prayers are with you and your wife Paul.
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sorry to hear that, terrible news to hear about anyone, even someone you don't know .... best wishes

We wish for a speedy recovery for Eva, from all of us at The SCORE Group.

As others have said, our thoughts and prayers are with you and your wife.

I'm sorry to hear, best wishes

Good luck, Paul. Always stay positive!

So sorry to hear

From my family to yours, Paul - wishing Eva the very best!

Positive thoughts and well wishes from all of us at Team Homegrown!

Thanks JKF.

Good news is the doctors woke Eva early this morning into a 50/50 conscious state to assess her injuries. She could move her legs at the knees and aware of what she doing. She was semi conscious for an hour they then put her back to sleep. They may repeat that tomorrow if she's fine. She is making as good a recovery as can be expected.

The damage to her lungs is not as bad as they feared, her abdomen is badly bruised and there was blood and fluid there which has been removed. She has a tear in her liver which they think can heal or be repaired. Her spinal cord is swollen and they will not know if it's damaged until the swelling goes down, she has fractures to multiple vertebrae. These will need to be dealt with soon as possible. Eva is still on an assisted breathing machine and is breathing fine with it.

She is in Traumatology, which is like intensive care. I saw no one in there in a conscious state. There are more doctors and nurses than patients. There are all the machines and things required the standard is excellent.

That was the good news.

The bad news is I have to expect Eva to be a different person for two years. This was in reply to my question on how long she would be in Traumatology and in hospital, they have no idea when she will be moved from where she is and she is still in danger from a relapse or infection.

He then told me they did not operate on her until 2.00 Sunday morning because when she arrived at 6.40 Saturday night they did not expect her to live. I was too shocked to cry.

Tomorrow I will put my head into the office and make sure everything is fine and have a meeting with the accountant. Business goes on.

Frank if you want to know why I have shared this and I really don't care what you think. It's because I have a lot of friends here who read the board and might not post and it helps me to share it. Non committal sharing seems to ease the load.

Really strange, especially when I have wondered why others did the same.

Damn that sure is shocking news! Thank god she pulled through on sunday, and an awesome sign that she could move her legs. Must of been quite a big relief. Take care and hope you can sleep! Must be tough on you. If there is anything people here at GFY can do, let us know. Probably isn'much besides positive thoughts but you never know. Ignore the idiots, stay strong. Sounds like the worst part is over.

Hang in there Paul ... Eva will then do the same ...